Fri, 19 Oct 2012
10:00 -
11:31
DH 1st floor SR
From Patterns to Modelling - Mathmagics in Land, Sea and Sky: What We Know, Don't Know and What We Think
Visitor
(Maths, Oxford)
Abstract
Links between:
• storm tracks, sediment movement and an icy environment
• fluvial flash flooding to coastal erosion in the UK
Did you know that the recent Japanese, Chilean and Samoan tsunami all led to strong currents from resonance at the opposite end of the ocean?
Journey around the world, from the north Atlantic to the south Pacific, on a quest to explore and explain the maths of nature.