- Series
- Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Reading Group
- Time
- Monday, September 26, 2016 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Zaher Hani – GeorgiaTech – hani@math.gatech.edu – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~zhani6/
- Organizer
- Zaher Hani
We will start explaining and formulating the mathematical questions involved in justifying statistical physics from dynamical first principles. We will particularly discuss the approach, suggested by Boltzmann, based on deriving effective equations for the distribution function of a particle system. This will lead us to Boltzmann kinetic equation and its H-principle. This corresponds to Chapters 1 and 2 of Dorfman "An introduction to Chaos in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics".