Notiziario Scientifico

Settimana dal 30 marzo al 5 aprile 2015


Martedì 31 marzo 2015
Ore 14:00, aula B
Metodi matematici per le teorie cinetiche
Marcello Porta (University of Zurich)
Mean-field evolution of fermionic systems
In this talk I will discuss the dynamics of interacting fermionic systems in the mean-field regime. Compared to the bosonic case, fermionic mean-field scaling is naturally coupled with a semiclassical scaling, making the analysis more involved. From a physical point of view, as the number of particles grows one expects the quantum evolution of the system to be effectively described by Hartree-Fock theory. The next degree of approximation is provided by a classical effective dynamics, corresponding to the Vlasov equation. I will consider initial data which are close to quasi-free states, both at zero and at positive temperature, with an appropriate semiclassical structure. Under some regularity assumptions on the interaction potential I will show that the time evolution of such initial data stays close to a quasi-free state, with reduced one-particle density matrix given by the solution of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equation. The result holds for all (semiclassical) times, and gives effective bounds on the rate of convergence towards the Hartree-Fock dynamics as the number of particles goes to infinity.


Martedì 31 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Seminario di Equazioni Differenziali
Alfonso Sorrentino (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Homogenization of Equivariant Hamilton-Jacobi equations
In this talk I would like to discuss the homogenization problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, in the case of Tonelli Hamiltonians which are invariant under the action of a discrete group. This different point of view, besides providing a general setting that embraces previous results in the literature (from the classical work by Lions, Papanicolaou and Varadhan to the more recent one by Contreras, Iturriaga and Siconolfi), will allow us to get a clearer understanding of the geometry of the limit space and of the structure of the homogenized problem.


Martedì 31 marzo 2015
Ore 15:00, aula di Consiglio
Seminario di Modellistica Differenziale Numerica
Alessandro Alla (Università di Amburgo)
Optimization and model reduction of a permanent magnet machine
In an electromagnetic machine with permanent magnets the excitation field is provided by a permanent magnet instead of a coil. The center of the generator, the rotor, contains the magnet. Our optimization goal consists in finding the minimum volume of the magnet which gives a desired electromotive force. This is a standard optimization problem with PDE constraints. We propose a goal oriented model order reduction approach to provide a reduced order surrogate model for the parametrized PDE which then is utilized in the numerical optimization. One important feature of the proposed scheme is the online update of the basis functions which allows to avoid expensive offline stages. Numerical tests will be provided in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Joint work with M. Hinze, O. Lass and S. Ulbrich.


Mercoledì 01 aprile 2015
Ore 14:30, aula di Consiglio
eminaio di Algebra e Geometria
Gabriele Mondello (Sapienza Università di Roma)
On the existence of spherical metrics with conical singularities on a 2-sphere
A celebrated result by Poincaré states that a compact Riemann surface has a conformal metric of constant curvature, unique up to rescaling and biholomorphisms. Clearly, the case of genus 0 is not so exciting, being trivially solved by any Fubini-Study metric on the complex projective line. The problem becomes more interesting if we require such metrics to have conical singularities of prescribed angles at a finite subset of n marked points. The case of negative and zero curvature was settled by McOwen and Troyanov in 1989-1991: they established the existence and uniqueness of such a metric in each conformal class. The case of positive curvature is more delicate: existence and uniqueness results are known for small angles (Troyanov), whereas non-uniqueness results are known in positive genus (Bartolucci-De Marchis-Malchiodi). In a joint work with D.Panov (still in progress), we determine for which angle assignment there exists a surface of genus 0 with a metric of curvature 1 and conical singularities of such prescribed angles (and non-coaxial holonomy).


Mercoledì 01 aprile 2015
Ore 14:30, aula G, Università di Roma Tre (via della Vasca Navale)
Ramona Groeber (Università di Roma Tre)
Higgs pair production in the Standard Model and beyond
After the Higgs discovery one of the major goals of LHC is the measurement of Higgs couplings. A special role is taken in this context by the trilinear Higgs coupling whose measurement would shed light on the form of the Higgs potential. The trilinear Higgs coupling can be measured in Higgs pair production processes. In this talk I want to review the theoretical status of Higgs pair production processes and discuss the accessibility of the trilinear Higgs coupling at the LHC. Furthermore, I want to discuss extensions of the Standard Model and their predictions for Higgs pair production processes.


Mercoledì 01 aprile 2015
Ore 16:00, aula C,
Claudio Procesi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Algebre con Identità Polinomiali I


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