Last week of term

There will be no lecture on wed 18/3. Individual discussions on student projects will continue during the week, either in person or via skype.

No lecture on wed 11/3 and individual appointments for projects on thu 12/3

Project students will receive e-mails to confirm details about their appointments.

Thu 5/3: Guest lecture by Prof Ale Jan Homburg (Amsterdam)

During the class, Ale Jan will be talking about on-off intermittency in random dynamical systems.

Wed 4/3: individual project sessions

I will hold individual discussions about your projects. I will all students individually to schedule a time. If you would not have received an e-mail from me by tuesday 4pm, please alert me.

Guest lecture 27/2 by Maximilian Engel on shear-induced chaos

Maximilian Engel (TUM) will discuss the paper

Maximilian Engel, Jeroen S. W. Lamb, and Martin Rasmussen, Bifurcation analysis of a stochastically driven limit cycle, Communications in Mathematical Physics 365, 3 (2019), 935−942.

Wed 26/2 session: projects

Dear all, I will dedicate most of wed’s session on the projects. Please come prepared with some ideas and directions. Apart from discussion some matters of general use, i also hope to identify any opportunity to form smaller subgroups for further discussion. 

Interesting development: turbulent times

Just to make you aware of a couple of preprints, that appeared late last year, proving for the first time some dynamical behaviour observed in turbulence in the context of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations, see this featured article in Quantamagazine. Adding noise helps mastering this problem, but in addition I would like to emphasize the importance of the dynamical systems approach in proving the desired phenomena; in particular, ergodicity (of the one-point motion) is not enough.