Abstract
The main goal of this mini course is to discuss the state-of-the-art in understanding the phenomena of long time asympotitcs and phase transitions for a range of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with linear and nonlinear diffusion. They appear as natural macroscopic PDE descriptions of the collective behavior of particles such as Cucker-Smale models for consensus, the Keller Segel model for chemotaxis, and the Kuramoto model for synchronization. We will discuss the existence of phase transitions in a variety of these models using the natural free energy of the system and their interpretation as natural gradient flow structure with respect to the Wasserstein distance in probability measures. We will discuss both theoretical aspects as well as numerical schemes and simulations keeping those properties at the discrete level.
Brief Biography
José A. Carrillo is currently Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations at the Mathematical Institute and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford associated to the OxPDE and WCMB groups. He was previously Chair in Applied and Numerical Analysis at Imperial College London from October 2012 till March 2020 and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona during the period 2003-2012.