A Brief History of Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness Problem

Damien Tageddine

12:00, Friday, March 13
BURN 1025





Since their derivations at the beginning of the 19th century, the Navier-Stokes equations, a system of partial differential equations describing the motion of fluid in space, has remained a fruitful domain of investigation for generations of mathematicians. I invite you for a walk across the history of one of the most famous Millenium Prize Problems, in the landscapes of mathematical physics, functional analysis, regularity theory and symmetries. We will follow the steps of great mathematicians: Claude-Louis Navier, George Gabriel Stokes, Jean Leray, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Terence Tao, looking for smooth and globally defined solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.

This seminar was made possible by funding from the McGill mathematics and statistics department and PGSS.

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