MINI COURSE

TITLE  
Metastability Phenomenon, Tunnelling Effect and Condensation


SPEAKER  
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
University of California, Berkeley


TIME  
Tuesday, July 4, 2017,   10:00 - 12:30
Tuesday, July 4, 2017,   14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday, July 5, 2017,   10:00 - 12:30
Wednesday, July 5, 2017,   14:00 - 15:30
Saturday, July 8, 2017,   10:00 - 12:30
Saturday, July 8, 2017,   14:00 - 15:30


VENUE   Room 221, Department of Mathematics,
Sharif University of Technology



SUMMARY

Condensation is a widespread phenomenon that appears in various physical systems. From a mathematical point of view it can be seen as the spontaneous migration of a macroscopic number of particles to some region of the space. As a simple model I discuss the condensation phenomenon for a stochastic particle system known as Zero Range Process. In this system there is a one to one correspondence between condensates and metastable configurations. After a suitable time scaling, stochastic tunneling occurs and the system evolves among condensates.