Colloquium: Jean Michel Bismut (Universite Paris Sud) Landau Lectures - "Hypoelliptic Laplacian, Brownian motion and the geodesic flow" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Colloquium: Jean Michel Bismut (Universite Paris Sud) Landau Lectures - "Hypoelliptic Laplacian, Brownian motion and the geodesic flow"

Date:

Thu, 26/10/201714:30-15:30

Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem

I will give the structure of the hypoelliptic Laplacian. I will also describe a natural construction of the hypoelliptic Laplacian as a nonstandard Hodge Laplacian, and explain its connections with dynamical systems and an equation by Langevin.