Conveners
W2-1 Pattern Formation 2 (DCMMP) | Formation de motif 2 (DPMCM)
- Jordi Baro Urbea (University of Calgary)
A decade ago, Yves Couder in Paris discovered that droplets walking on a vibrating fluid bath exhibit several features previously thought to be exclusive to the microscopic, quantum realm. These walking droplets propel themselves by virtue of a resonant interaction with their own wavefield, and so represent the first macroscopic realization of a pilot-wave system of the form proposed for...
Aftershocks are ubiquitous in nature. They are the manifestation of relaxation phenomena observed in various physical systems. In one prominent example, they typically occur after large earthquakes. They also occur in other natural or experimental systems, for example, in solar flares, in fracture experiments on porous materials and acoustic emissions, after stock market crashes, in internet...
Neuronal systems have become emblematic of nonequilibrium biological systems with complex behaviour. Owing to observations of apparently scale-free cascades of causal activity (avalanches) in neural cultures, it has become a popular hypothesis that neural systems operate close to a nonequilibrium phase transition. That neural systems should operate at a critical point is supported by theory,...
