Trouble with a chain of stochastic oscillators

Series
Stochastics Seminar
Time
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Jonathan Mattingly – Dept of Math, Duke University
Organizer
Yuri Bakhtin
I will discuss some recent (but modest) results showing the existence and slow mixing of a stationary chain of Hamiltonian oscillators subject to a heat bath.  Surprisingly, even these simple results require some delicate stochastic averaging. This is joint work with Martin Hairer.