Professor Shi Jin will visit Imperial in May 2018 as a Nelder Visiting Fellow, and during his visit he will give a series of lectures entitled Uncertainty Quantification for Kinetic Equations.
Lectures 1 & 2
Date: Tuesday 15 May 14:00-16:30
Venue: Huxley 144
Lecture 1
Basics of Kinetic Equations, Asymptotic Limits, and Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes
In this lecture we will review some basic properties of kinetic equations, their various asymptotic limits, and introduce the Asymptotic-Preserving paradigm for multiscale kinetic equations and related problems.
Lecture 2
Kinetic equations with random uncertainties, numerical methods, and stochastic Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes
In this lecture we will study polynomial chaos based stochastic Galerkin methods for multiscale kinetic equations with random uncertainties, and introduce the notation of stochastic Asymptotic-Preserving schemes to handle both multiscales and uncertainty.
Lectures 3 & 4
Date: Thursday 17 May 14:00-16:30
Venue: Huxley 144
Lecture 3
Hypocoercivity theory based regularity, sensitivity and numerical analysis for uncertain kinetic equations
Hypocoercivity theory plays important role in studying the long-time behavior of kinetic equations. We will show how such a theory, well-established for deterministic kinetic equations, can be extended to study the regularity, local sensitivity with respect to random inputs in initial data and collision kernels, and long-time behavior of the solution in the random space. We will also use such theory to establish spectral accuracy, error estimates and long-time behavior of polynomial chaos based stochastic Galerkin methods.
Lecture 4
High dimensional random space
We will introduce some techniques to handle high dimensional random space for linear kinetic equations with random inputs. Examples include sparse grids, best-N approximations and greedy algorithms.
Speaker biography
Shi Jin is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his B.S. from Peking University and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research fields include computational fluid dynamics, kinetic equations, hyperbolic conservation laws, high frequency waves, quantum dynamics, and uncertainty quantification – fields in which he has published over 150 papers. He has been honored with the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing and the Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics at the Fourth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, and is a Fellow of both the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).. He is an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio De Janeiro, 2018.
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