Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The Burgers equation is a basic hydrodynamic model describing the evolution of the velocity field of sticky dust particles. When supplied with random forcing it turns into an infinite-dimensional random dynamical system that has been studied since late 1990's. The variational approach to Burgers equation allows to study the system by analyzing optimal paths in the random landscape generated by the random force potential. Therefore, this is essentially a random media problem. For a long time only compact cases of Burgers dynamics on the circle or a torus were understood well. In this talk I discuss the Burgers dynamics on the entire real line with no compactness or periodicity assumption. The main result is the description of the ergodic components and One Force One Solution principle on each component. Joint work with Eric Cator and Kostya Khanin.

We will present a classical proof of the center stable manifold.

The classification theorem for a C_0 operator describes its quasisimilarity class by means of its Jordan model. The purpose of this talk will be to investigate when the relation between the operator and its model can be improved to similarity. More precisely, when the minimal function of the operator T can be written as a product of inner functions satisfying the so-called (generalized) Carleson condition, we give some natural operator theoretic assumptions on T that guarantee similarity.

In this talk, we consider the Cauchy problem of a modified two-component Camassa-Holm shallow water system. We first establish local well-possedness of the Cauchy problem of the system. Then we present several blow-up results of strong solutions to the system. Moreover, we show the existence of global weak solutions to the system. Finally, we address global conservative solutions to the system. This talk is based on several joint works with C. Guan, K. H. Karlsen, K. Yan and W. Tan.