This book is the offspring of a summer school school "Macroscopic and large scale

phenomena: coarse graining, mean field limits and ergodicity," which was held in 2012 at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The focus lies on mathematically rigorous methods for multiscale problems of physical origins.

Each of the four book chapters is based on a set of lectures delivered at the school, yet all authors have expanded and refined their contributions.

Francois Golse delivers a chapter on the dynamics of large particle systems in the mean field limit and surveys the...