| | Understanding Complex Systems | |
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| | Illinois Professor Alfred Hubler |
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| | Date | | Oct 31, 2009 |
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| | Time | | 10:15 am
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| | Location | | 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana |
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| | Cost | | None |
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| | Sponsor | | Physics Department |
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| | Contact | | Toni Pitts |
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| | E-Mail | | tpitts@illinois.edu |
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| | Phone | | 217-244-2948 |
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| | Event type | | Outreach |
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| | Views | | 7876 |
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| Popular Lecture: Lightning, the flickering flame of a candle, traffic congestions,
fracturing glass, the turbulence at the exhaust of the jet engine, and
computers have something in common with living systems: they exist
only if there is a sufficiently large supply of energy, in terms of a
high voltage electrical current, energy rich chemical, cars that want
to reach a certain destination, tension, fast moving fluids,
information, or food. Such Complex Systems have special properties:
the self-assemble into sometimes very beautiful fractal patterns and
self-repair. However their dynamics is often chaotic and includes
catastrophes. This talk will give an overview over the current
research directions in this field and discuss potential applications. |
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