| Date: | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 |
| From: | Kevin Chu |
| Subject: | Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar - Thursday at 5PM in 2-338 |
Hey SPAMmerS,
In the best SPAMS tradition, this week Chris Rycroft is going to chaotically
tell us about math. Check that. He's going to mathematically tell us about
chaos. Afterwards, there will be Mexican food in the Applied common room.
Join us, won't you please?
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Title: Fractals and Chaos: A Graphical Overview
Abstract:
Chaos theory is one of the most exciting branches of twentieth century
mathematics. In this talk, I will present the main concepts behind fractals and
chaos, illustrating them both with simulations, and examples from physics. I
will discuss population dynamics, strange attractors, Mandelbrot/Julia sets,
and fractal self-similar dimension; and I will also report on some recent
investigations into three dimensional fractal clusters, created by diffusion
limited aggregation.
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