Renormalization Group and Homogenization - Scott Armstrong

Joint IAS/PU Analysis Seminar Topic: Renormalization Group and Homogenization Speaker: Scott Armstrong Affiliation: NYU Courant Institute Date: December 1, 2023 I will describe some new "coarse-graining" methods in quantitative homogenization and how they can be used to give rigorous versions of certain heuristic "renormalization group" arguments in physics, with a focus on several examples.