Seminar on Stochastic PDEs: Chunxi Jiao -- stochastic flow for harmonic maps

Struwe solutions are well-known in the study of harmonic map heat flow and related
equations.  These globally existing weak solutions are smooth away from at most finitely
many singularities (for 2D-domains).  We aim to explore their stochastic counterpart,
where  time of occurrence and location of singularities need to be reformulated in a
stochastic setting.  We first review the deterministic case, then outline key steps
towards the stochastic case, and finally discuss the regularity assumptions imposed on
the noise.  This talk/series of talks is based on a joint work with Ben Goldys (USYD)
and Christof Melcher (RWTH Aachen University).

Date: Tue 15 Apr, 11am - 12pm 

Location: Room 3085, Red Centre, UNSW