Instantaneous Gelation

Instantaneous Gelation

Probability Seminar
Feb 16, 2011, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, Departments of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
Marcus-Lushnikov Process is a simple mean field model of coagulating particles that converges to the homogeneous Smoluchowski equation in the large mass limit. If the coagulation rates grow sufficiently fast as the size of particles get large, giant particles emerge in finite time. This is known as gelation and such particles are known as gels. Gelation comes in different flavors; simple,...