Seminar by Olivier Pierre-Louis: Rotating turbulent convection: Controlling the shape of small particle clusters with a macroscopic field

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Published on April 26, 2022 – Updated on January 16, 2023
Dates

on the May 11, 2022

11:00
Location
Site Valrose and on-line

Controlling the shape of small particle clusters with a macroscopic field

Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

We model the control of the shape of small atomic or colloidal  monolayer clusters
undergoing thermal fluctuations via the tuning of a macroscopic external field.
When a microscopic model of the dynamics of the cluster is known, we use an
optimization procedure called Dynamic Programming to achieve control. 

Using Reinforcement Learning, we then show that such a control is learnable from observations without any knowledge of the model.