Date: Thursday, February 21, 2002
Time: 4:30 pm
Place: Hayes-Healy Hall, 129

Speaker: Luc Rey-Bellet

From: University of Virginia

Host: Mark S. Alber (Mathematics)

Title: Heat Conduction and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Abstract:
We discuss the properties of non equilibrium steady states of mechanical systems coupled to several Hamiltonian reservoirs at positive temperatures: existence, uniqueness, rate of convergence, heat flow and its fluctuations.