Research Group "Interacting Random Systems"
Head:Wolfgang König
Coworkers:
Gabriel Faraud, Onur Gün, Sabine Jansen, Robert Patterson, Wolfgang Wagner, Tilman Wolff
Secretary:
Christina van de Sand
The research group is engaged in the analysis of interacting random systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. Examples of the group's work come from Statistical Physics, Information Science, and Flow Theory; they concern
- condensation and crystallization phenomena in interacting many-body systems
- intermittency properties of random mass transport through random media
- connectivity questions in mobile communication networks,
- stochastic particle systems as efficient solvers of kinetic equations.
The interactions are defined on a microscopic scale, and the macroscopic (sometimes also the mesoscopic) behavior of the system is described, using methods from asymptotic probability theory, but also from analysis.
The research group takes part in the following main application areas: