Mathematics Colloquium, CSU
Friday, April 26, 2013
3:00–4:00 pm in RT 1516
A mathematical view of fish migration
Alethea Barbaro, Case Western Reserve University
Abstract. Interacting particles have been used to model the dynamics
of systems for many years. Originally, they were often used to study
the behavior of interacting molecules, leading to the Boltzmann, Euler, and Navier-Stokes equations. More recently, researchers have been
applying these models in a much broader context, modeling everything
from polymers to insects to birds and fish and even people! In this talk,
I will present an interacting particle model for fish migration and its
application to the capelin stock living off the shores of Iceland. I will
then continue on to discuss some of the PDEs arising from this type of
model, both at the mesoscopic and the macroscopic scales.
* Refreshments at 2:30 PM in RT 1517