There will be an invited talk.

Title: Self-Organized Hydrodynamic models for nematic alignment and the application to myxobacteria
Speaker: Prof. Hui Yu (Tsinghua University)
Time: 2018 November 1st, 11:00am~11:50am
Place: 27-220
Abstract:
A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean field kinetic equation. The resulting perturbation problem is solved thanks to the concept of generalized collision invariants. It yields a hyperbolic but nonconservative system of equations for the nematic mean direction of the flow and the densities of particles flowing parallel or antiparallel to this mean direction. An application to myxobacteria is presented.