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PDE seminar, March 17th 2016

Thursday 17th     EHESS, 190-198 Avenue de France, room 466, 4th floor - 75013 Paris          

11h00 : Vincent Calvez (ENS de Lyon)
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Concentration waves of bacteria at the mesoscopic scale

Concentration waves of swimming bacteria Escherichia coli were described in his seminal paper by Adler (Science 1966). These experiments gave rise to intensive PDE modelling and analysis, after the original model by Keller and Segel (J. Theor. Biol. 1971), and the work of Alt and co-authors in the 80's. Together with Bournaveas, Perthame, Raoul and Schmeiser, we have revisited this old problem from the point of view of kinetic transport equations. This framework is very much adapted to the so-called run-and-tumble motion, in which any bacteria modulate the frequency of reorientation (tumble) -- and thus the duration of free runs -- depending on chemical variations in its environment.
In this talk, I will present existence results for solitary waves both at the macroscopic scale, and at the mesoscopic scale. The macroscopic problem consists of a drift-diffusion equation derived from the kinetic equation after a suitable diffusive rescaling, coupled to two reaction-diffusion equations. Mathematical difficulties arise at the mesoscopic scale, where the proof of existence of travelling waves require a refined description of spatial and velocity profiles.

I will also present numerical simulations done in collaboration with Gosse and Twarogowska, in order to illustrate some unexpected behavior of the mesoscopic problem.


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