If you find John Rundle talk interesting tonight, remember he will be following up with a community discussion tomorrow (Thurs) night sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. More details at: http://www.sfafs.org/calendar.asp
Lecture tonight: SFI Public Lecture Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:30 PM at the James A Little Theater John Rundle, Director, California Hazards Institute of the University of California; Director, UC Davis Center for Computational Science and Engineering; Professor of Physics, Engineering, and Geology, University of California, Davis with Discussant Geoffrey B. West, President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute Forecasting Natural Disasters in the Chaotic and Complex Earth In the recent past we have seen the December 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami; the August 2005 Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast; and the Pakistan earthquake in October 2005. Other, less catastrophic disasters include a multiplicity of landslides, flooding, wildfires, tornadoes, and epidemics. For many of these events, vast quantities of satellite data are opening new horizons to better understanding them. Using space-time patterns and information about the dynamics of these high-dimensional nonlinear earth systems, it is often possible to construct numerical simulations that can be used to make predictions about the evolution of the system and the possible occurrence of extreme events. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
