Special events
Public understanding of science event
A lecture of interest to a general audience will take place on Wednesday 11 July at 18.30.
Spontaneous rhythms in nature and technology
Kurt Wiesenfeld, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Rhythms abound in the natural world. Rhythmic coordination is commonplace, and can be crucial: the beating cells in our hearts must synchronize precisely ... or else! Equally too much coordination can be just as bad: seizures in the brain can occur as a result of abnormally high levels of synchronous activity in populations of neurons.
Examples of spontaneous synchronization are found in every branch of science – from the incredible lightshows put on each night by swarms of fireflies to the synchronization of the pendulums of clocks. Researchers the world over are trying to understand how coordinated rhythms arise and trying to discover ways to control them. An array of applications awaits: faster computers, brighter lasers, collision-avoiding cars; new strategies for treating heart and brain disorders; even an end to the devastation of periodic locust swarms.
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Lasers
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Fireflies
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Clocks
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Huygens
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Satellite meeting
The East Midlands Stochastic Analysis Seminar will hold a workshop on Stochastic Dynamical Systems on Thursday 12 July and Friday 13 July at the conference venue.
Thursday 12 July
14.00–15.00: Szymon Peszat (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow)
Law of large numbers for the passive tracer
15.00–16.00: Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick, UK)
Sampling function space: Applications and algorithms
16.30–17.30: Igor Khovanov (Lancaster University, UK)
Fluctuational escape from chaotic attractors in multistable systems
17.30-18.30: James Robinson (University of Warwick, UK)
Finite-dimensional random attractors and experimental observations
Friday 13 July
10.30–11.30: Aubrey Truman (Swansea University, UK)
The stochastic Burgers equation - Geometric properties of the Maxwell set, a vortex filament structure and the Zeldovich adhesion model
11.30–12.30: Kening Lu (Brigham Young University, USA)
Lyapunov exponents and invariant manifolds for random dynamical systems in a Banach space
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