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.

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