- Series
- Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Reading Group
- Time
- Monday, October 31, 2016 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Mikel Viana – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Mikel Viana
In this introductory talk we present some basic results in ergodic theory, due to Poincare, von Neumann, and Birkhoff. We will also discuss many examples of dynamical systems where the theory can be applied. As motivation for a broad audience, we will go over the connection of the theory with someclassical problems in statistical mechanics.