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TUT: Tutorien

TUT 3: Tutorial: Patterns in Nature and Materials (DY/BP/CPP)

TUT 3.2: Tutorial

Sunday, March 19, 2017, 16:50–17:40, HSZ 04

On growth and forms in nature — •Chaouqi Misbah — Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS and Universite Alpes, Grenoble, France

Atoms and molecules self-assemble into fascinating patterns, such as snowflakes, that even very complex entities, such as biological cells and living micro-organisms, try to mimic despite their internal much higher complexity. This points to the existence of an intricate hierarchy of universality which still escapes today a comprehensive description. This lecture will present the basic rules and principles that lead to diverse non-equilibrium patterns and shapes in nature.

C. Misbah, Complex Dynamics and Morphogenesis: An Introduction to Nonlinear Science (Springer, 2016)