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My favorite failure

Faculty Research Seminar

Speaker: Dan Romik, UC Davis
Related Webpage: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, Apr 12 2022, 12:10PM

I will illustrate my approach to mathematics research by telling in detail the story of a failed research project in differential equations that was motivated by a real-life physics goal of building a desktop-sized Foucault's pendulum. I will also mention a few of my current research interests.