VIGRE Hot Topics Seminar for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

This spring there will be a seminar on Hydrodynamic Limits of interacting Particle Systems organized by Timo Seppalainen (faculty) and Josh Rushton (Graduate student). The plan is to meet once per week to work through portions of the Fields Institute publication "Hydrodynamic Limits and Related Topics," starting with the notes from Varadhan's minicourse on the topic and then choosing further topics according to interest and time constraints.

Description of "Hydrodynamic Limits and Related Topics"
This book presents the lecture notes and articles from the workshop on hydrodynamic limits held at The Fields Institute (Toronto). The first part of the book contains the notes from the mini-course given by Professor S. R. S. Varadhan. The second part contains research articles reviewing the diverse progress in the study of hydrodynamic limits and related areas. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and its techniques, including entropy and relative entropy methods, large deviation estimates, and techniques in nongradient systems. This book, especially the lectures of Part I, could be used as a text for an advanced graduate course in hydrodynamic limits and interacting particle systems.