[Statlist] Talk on Statistics Friday, May 15, 2009

[Cecilia Rey]

ETH and University of Zurich

Proff. A.D. Barbour - P. Buehlmann -  L. Held -
H.R. Kuensch - M. Maathuis - W. Stahel - S. van de Geer


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We are glad to announce the following talk
* Friday, May 15, 2009 14.15-15.15  HG  G 19.2 *

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with Manuel Torrilhon, Seminar für Angewandte Mathematik, ETH Zürich

Title:
Modeling in Kinetic Gas Theory: PDE's Meet Statistics

Abstract:
Kinetic gas theory describes the flow of gases on the
basis of the statistical distribution of particle
velocities. The governing equation is the Boltzmann
equation, a high-dimensional integro-differential
equation. Approximative models for Boltzmann's equation
reduce the complexity of the statistic description
by considering partial differential equations for fluid
variables like density, velocity and temperature. The
task is to find statistical models that provide
partial differential equations with desirable
mathematical and physical properties.

The abstract is also to be found under the following link:  
http://stat.ethz.ch/talks/research_seminar

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