Out-of-equilibrium dynamics for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation: From energy cascades to weak turbulence

Series
Job Candidate Talk
Time
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 11:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Zaher Hani – Courant Institute, New York University – http://cims.nyu.edu/~hani/Zaher_Hani_-_Personal_Webpage/Welcome.html
Organizer
Chongchun Zeng
Out-of-equilibrium dynamics are a characteristic feature of the long-time behavior of nonlinear dispersive equations on bounded domains. This is partly due to the fact that dispersion does not translate into decay in this setting (in contrast to the case of unbounded domains like $R^d$). In this talk, we will take the cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation as our model, and discuss some aspects of its out-of-equilibrium dynamics, from energy cascades (i.e. migration of energy from low to high frequencies) to weak turbulence.