Non-linear Fisher travelling waves : an overview

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Non-linear Fisher travelling waves : an overview

  • Event time: 2:00pm
  • Event date: 3rd July 2009
  • Speaker: Damien Simon (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 4309,

Event details

I will present different problems in which the non-linear Fisher travelling waves appear (branching random walks, epidemics, reaction-diffusion problems) and discuss through them the general properties of these waves, as for example the effect of initial conditions on the velocity. In a second part, I will how finite-size effects or a stochastic noise modify this velocity.