The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the following talks during the week of Monday, August 31st - Saturday, September 5th
Program Mini Course: Vlad Rosenhaus
Monday, August 31st at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Speaker: Vlad Rosenhaus
Title: Field Theory of Wave Turbulence Part 1
Program Talk: Katepalli Sreenivasan
Tuesday, September 1st at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Speaker: Katepalli Sreenivasan
Title: Decaying turbulence
Program Mini Course Greg Falkovich
Tuesday, September 1st at 2:00pm in SCGP 313
Speaker: Greg FalkovichÂ
Title: Fluid turbulence Part 4
Program Talk: Boris Khesin
Thursday, September 3rd at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Speaker: Boris Khesin
Title: Madelung hydrodynamics and Poisson geometry of wave functions
Abstract: We describe the Poisson geometry of the Madelung transform between quantum mechanics and hydrodynamics for generic wave functions. It turns out that for arbitrary oriented manifolds this transform, being regarded as a momentum map, naturally defines prequantum bundles for coadjoint orbits of semidirect extensions of diffeomorphism groups. Furthermore, we show that the Madelung framework provides a natural infinite-dimensional version of the convexity results for Hamiltonian torus actions, thus giving a partial answer to Atiyah's question.
Program Review Talk: Bill Cooperman
Friday, September 4th at 10:00am in SCGP 313
Speaker: Bill Cooperman
Title: Passive scalar mixing