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Growth in a field of obstacles
Student-Run Research Seminar| Speaker: | Dr. Janko Gravner, Mathematics, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Nov 10 1999, 1:10PM |
Examples of growth processes in nature include formation of crystals and spread of epidemics. Often, such dynamics encounter obstacles, which can be stationary or moving, inert or reacting. When do such obstacles have dramatic impact on the growth? The talk will present several aspects of this question as a series of puzzles about the simplest models I can concoct.