Seminar series
Date
Fri, 17 Dec 2010
Time
15:00 -
16:00
Location
DH 1st floor SR
Speaker
Professor L Mahadevan
Organisation
Harvard
I will discuss a few problems that involve randomness , chosen randomly (?) from the following : (i) the probability of a coin landing on a side (ii) optimal strategies for throwing accurately, (iii) the statistical mechanics of a ribbon, (iv) the intermittent dynamics of a growing polymeric assembly (v) fat tails from feedback.