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Departmental Colloquium


Date: Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010

Time: 4:15PM

Location: JWB 335

TUESDAY


Sunder Sethuraman

Iowa State University

Title

Nonequilibrium limit for a tagged particle in a zero-range system

Abstract

The ‘zero-range’ interacting particle system, introduced in the 70’s, is a formal model of certain queues, traffic, and other physical phenomena. The system follows a collection of random walks on a lattice which interact in that the rate at which a particle jumps depends only on the occupation number of its location. Of interest is the asymptotic behavior of a distinguished, or tagged particle in the system. In this talk, we discuss a nonequilibrium limit for the tagged particle in one dimension when the transition probabilities are mean-zero. The limit process is a diffusion whose coefficients depend on the underlying hydrodynamic evolution of the mass density.

Probability Data Science and Machine Learning Applied Mathematics

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