PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture: Yann Brenier

  • Date: 06/10/2015
Lecturer(s):
Yann Brenier, École Polytechnique, Paris
Location: 

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Topic: 

From Euler to Born-Infeld, Fluids and Electromagnetism

Description: 

The slides for this event are available on mathtube.org.

 

As the Euler theory of hydrodynamics (1757), the Born-Infeld theory of electromagnetism (1934) enjoys a simple and beautiful geometric structure. Quite surprisingly, the BI model which is of relativistic nature, shares many features with classical hydro- and magnetohydro-dynamics. In particular, I will discuss its very close connection with Moffatt’s topological approach to Euler equations, through the concept of magnetic relaxation.

 

Abstracts / Downloads / Reports: 
MML2015-Brenier.pdf
Other Information: 

The Marsden Memorial Lecture Series is dedicated to the memory of Jerrold E Marsden (1942-2010), a world-renowned Canadian applied mathematician. Marsden was the Carl F Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, and prior to that he was at the University of California (Berkeley) for many years. He did extensive research in the areas of geometric mechanics, dynamical systems and control theory. He was one of the original founders in the early 1970’s of reduction theory for mechanical systems with symmetry, which remains an active and much studied area of research today.