Back to Departmental Colloquium: Spring 2006
Departmental Colloquium
Date: Thursday, Apr 20, 2006
Time: 4:15PM
Location: JWB 335
David Kinderlehrer
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Title |
Mass transport and motion at small scales |
Abstract |
The Monge-Kantorovich mass transport theory is presently in a state of feverish development. Originally conceived as an optimization problem for relocating debris - but really about statistics - it has emerged as method for studying many varieties of evolution behavior and, as a consequence, non-equilibrium systems. For example, and indeed our example, will take a look at protein motors, among the primary mechanisms of intracellular transport in eukarya. In this expository discussion, we shall concentrate on how we came to investigate these issues and and what we wish to accomplish. (joint work with Michel Chipot, Stuart Hastings, Michael Kowalczyk, and Bryce McLeod) FALL 2005 |
Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics