Research Training Group
Energy, Entropy, and Dissipative Dynamics
Funded by German Research
Foundation
(DFG)
Ringvorlesung
Local mins, saddle points, and Gamma-convergence in a Cahn-Hilliard problem: insights and challenges
Maria Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen University)
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Weekly Seminar
Optimal control problems and the turnpike property
Martin Gugat (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany))
Thu, 04 Nov 2021
• 10:30-11:30h
• location TBA
Weekly Seminar
A free boundary problem arising in a model of cell polarization
Matthias Röger (TU Dortmund (Germany))
Thu, 18 Nov 2021
• 10:30-11:30h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
Variational principles in inference and learning (1/2)
Michael Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen)
Thu, 25 Nov 2021
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
Variational principles in inference and learning (2/2)
Michael Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen)
Thu, 02 Dec 2021
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
Symmetric criticality
Heiko von der Mosel (RWTH Aachen University)
Thu, 09 Dec 2021
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
Symplectic Field Theory
Umberto Hryniewicz (RWTH Aachen University)
Thu, 16 Dec 2021
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Weekly Seminar
Statistical inverse problems and affine-invariant gradient flow structures in the space of probability measures
Sebastian Reich (Universität Potsdam)
Thu, 13 Jan 2022
• 10:30-11:30h
• location TBA
Weekly Seminar
Singular harmonic maps from planar domains into manifolds through Ginzburg–Landau and p–harmonic relaxations
Jean Van Schaftingen (UCLouvain (Belgium))
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
• 10:30-11:30h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
On the Structure of Moment Equations in Kinetic Theory
Manuel Torrilhon (RWTH Aachen University (Germany))
Thu, 27 Jan 2022
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Ringvorlesung
Uncertainty Quantification for Hyperbolic Equations
Michael Herty (RWTH Aachen University (Germany))
Thu, 03 Feb 2022
• 10:30-12:00h
• location TBA
Past Events
Weekly Seminar
On Neural Differential Equations
Patrick Kidger (Oxford University (U.K.))
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
• 10:30-11:30h
• 10:15 ONLINE coffee, 10:30 talk (ZOOM link will be published via newsletter)
Weekly Seminar
Higher–dimensional deterministic formulation of hyperbolic conservation laws with uncertain initial data
Adrian Kolb (RWTH Aachen University)
Thu, 23 Sep 2021
• 10:30-11:30h
• Templergraben 55, lecture hall I (3G regulation) AND via ZOOM (link will be published via newsletter)
Weekly Seminar
A variational approach to the regularity theory for optimal transportation
Felix Otto (MPI-MIS, Leipzig (Germany))
Thu, 19 Aug 2021
• 10:30-11:30h
• Templergraben 55, lecture hall II (max. 33 persons, so please announce participation via email)
Weekly Seminar
Trajectorial Otto calculus
Walter Schachermayer (University of Vienna (Austria))
Thu, 01 Jul 2021
• 10:15-11:30h
• 10:15 ONLINE coffee, 10:30 talk (access data will be published)
Weekly Seminar
On the sticky particle solutions to the pressureless Euler system in general dimension
Sara Daneri (Gran Sasso Science Institute, l'Aquila (Italy))
Thu, 10 Jun 2021
• 10:15-11:30h
• 10:15 ONLINE coffee, 10:30 talk (access data will be published)
No. 2021.13
Consistent, explicit, and accessible Boltzmann collision operator for polyatomic gases
V. Djordjić, M. Pavić-Čolić, and M. Torrilhon
Subject: Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics, thermal conductivity, transport phenomena, atomic gases, classical fluids, Boltzmann theory, multiscale modeling
No. 2021.12
Polytropic gas modelling at kinetic and macroscopic levels
V. Djordjić, M. Pavić-Čolić, and N. Spasojević
Subject: Kinetic theory of gases, polyatomic gases, Boltzmann equation,moment equations, non-equilibrium processes
No. 2021.11
Fortin Operator for the Taylor-Hood Element
L. Diening, J. Storn, and T. Tscherpel
Subject: Fortin operator, Taylor–Hood element, inf-sup stability
No. 2021.10
A unified surface-gradient and hydrostatic reconstruction scheme for the shallow water equations
G. Chen and S. Noelle
Subject: Saint-Venant system, well-balanced property, positivity preserving property, subcell hydrostatic reconstruction, bottom-surface-gradient method, maximum-minimum property
No. 2021.09
Binary interaction methods for high dimensional global optimization and machine learning
A. Benfenati, G. Borghi, and L. Pareschi
Subject: Gradient-free methods, global optimization, Boltzmann equation, mean-field limit, consensus-based optimization, machine learning
No. 2021.08
A class of boundary conditions for time-discrete Green-Naghdi equations with bathymetry
S. Noelle, M. Parisot, and T. Tscherpel
Subject: Shallow water flow, Green-Naghdi equations, dispersive equations, boundary conditions, prediction correction scheme, projection method, entropy satisfying scheme
No. 2021.07
Higher-dimensional deterministic formulation of hyperbolic conservation laws with uncertain initial data
M. Herty, A. Kolb, and S. Müller
Subject: Hyperbolic conservation laws, uncertainty quantification, discontinuous Galerkin methods, stochastic collocation, multiresolution analysis
No. 2021.06
Entropy Dissipation at the Junction for Macroscopic Traffic Flow Models
Y. Holle
Subject: Vehicular traffic flow, maximum entropy dissipation, LWR traffic model, scalar conservation laws, kinetic model, traffic network
No. 2021.05
Optimal relaxation of bump-like solutions of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation
S. Biesenbach, R. Schubert, and M. G. Westdickenberg
Subject: Energy-energy-dissipation, nonlinear pde, gradient flow, relaxation rates