EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: A sampling of nonlinear dynamics: from low-dimensional systems to extensive chaos
Speaker: Prof. D. Egolf
Speaker Info: Georgetown University
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Abstract:

The behaviors of far-from-equilibrium, spatiotemporal chaotic (STC) systems have been studied quite extensively in experiments and in numerical simulations; however, an understanding any deeper than the descriptive is largely lacking. The on-going work to understand these systems largely employs techniques successfully used to study low- dimensional chaos, pattern formation, or equilibrium systems. I will describe selected techniques and terminology from these fields necessary to understand current efforts in the study of spatiotemporal chaos, and I will try to give a flavor of the questions that researchers in STC are trying to answer.