Inferring Mean-field Models from Microscale Observations: Strengths of a Weak Form

From Santa Fe Institute

Daniel Messenger, Los Alamos National Lab Complex macroscale behavior, from cell migration to turbulence, can often be reduced to a sparse system of equations describing an underlying microscale process. An opposite pursuit is to find an effective macroscale description from microscale observations. In general, the inference of governing equations from experimental data, whether at the microscale or macroscale, has been a holy grail of scientific research for decades. In this talk I will desc...