Georg Menz Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften   Inselstraße 22 D - 04103 Leipzig   Room L4 +49-341-9959-954 gmenz at mis.mpg.de

Personal Information

2001 - 2006	Diploma in mathematics, University of Konstanz
2006 - 2011	Ph.D. in applied mathematics, University of Bonn and MPI-MIS Leipzig Advisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Otto
2011 - present	Scientist at the research group of Dr. Felix Otto at the MPI-MIS Leipzig
Marital status	Married, two children

Research Interests

• Probability and PDE with applications in physics and material sciences


• Equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of spin systems


• Sampling of probability measures


• Non-dissipative systems

Publications

• Menz, G.: Equilibrium dynamics of continuous unbounded spin systems. Dissertation 2011.


• Menz, G. and Otto, F.: Uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for conservative spin systems with super-quadratic single-site potential. To appear in Annals of Probability. MPI-MIS Preprint 5/2011.


• Menz, G.: LSI for Kawasaki dynamics with weak interaction. Commun. Math. Phys. 307, 817–860 (2011) or MPI-MIS Preprint 31/2010.


• Menz, G.: Exponential stability of wave equations with potential and indefinite damping. J. Differential Equations 242, 171-191 (2007).

Talks

Levico, January, 2010	First CIRM-HCM Joint Meeting, Stochastic Analysis, SPDE's, Particle Systems, Optimal Transport
Leipzig, November 2010	Berlin-Leipzig Seminar on Analysis and Probability Theory
Warwick, January 2011	Warwick Statistical Mechanics Seminar
Bonn, September 2011	5th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications
Paris, September 2011	Workshop at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Metastability and stochastic processes
Haifa, October 2011	Seminar in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Technion.
Bielefeld, November 2011	Workshop at Bielefeld University, Recent Trends in Differential Equations: Analysis and Discretisation Methods
Oberwolfach, December 2011	Workshop on Variational Methods for Evolution
Konstanz, January 2012	Oberseminar Partielle Differentialgleichungen

Teaching

SS 2007	Seminar Weak Convergence Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
SS 2008	Seminar Dynamical Systems
SS 2009	Seminar Dynamical Systems

January 2011