Chance and Chaos - How to Predict the Unpredictable by Jens Marklof

Chance and Chaos - How to Predict the Unpredictable by Jens Marklof

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WHEN: 4:00 pm to pm Sunday, 11 December 2022

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Chance and Chaos - How to Predict the Unpredictable by Jens Marklof

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  1. 1 WHEN: 4:00 pm to pm Sunday, 11 December 2022
  2. 2 Start
  3. 3 Introduction
  4. 4 Speaker Introduction
  5. 5 Chance and chaos: how to predict the unpredictable
  6. 6 KAAPI WITH KURIOSITY
  7. 7 The butterfly effect
  8. 8 Climate modelling and extreme weather prediction
  9. 9 The deterministic universe, chance and chaos
  10. 10 Unpredictability
  11. 11 Example: The fair coin toss
  12. 12 The perfect coin tosser
  13. 13 Let's do an experiment with dice!"
  14. 14 Kneading dough: a simple model for generating randomness
  15. 15 Step 1: Place test raisins in the dough.
  16. 16 Step 4: Continue repeating Steps 2 and 3.
  17. 17 Exponential sensitivity, and the amplification of randomness
  18. 18 A mathematical theorem
  19. 19 The grand challenge
  20. 20 Helpful chaos: Boltzmann's statistical mechanics
  21. 21 The Boltzmann gas:
  22. 22 The Lorentz gas
  23. 23 The Lorentz gas and Brownian motion
  24. 24 A typical Brownian path in three dimensional space.
  25. 25 Visibility in a forest
  26. 26 The Lorentz gas in a crystal
  27. 27 The distribution of free path lengths
  28. 28 Underpinning mathematics: ergodic theory and dynamical systems
  29. 29 Conclusions
  30. 30 Recommendations for further reading
  31. 31 Thank you
  32. 32 Q&A

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