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BURSTS
Colloquium| Speaker: | Edgar Knobloch, Physics Department, UC Berkely |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Mon, Oct 18 1999, 4:10PM |
Description
In this talk I will review several mechanisms believed to explain
the origin of bursting behavior in different physical systems. I will also
describe a new mechanism that generates bursts close to the threshold of
an oscillatory instability in systems with symmetry. The mechanism relies
on the interaction between nearly degenerate modes brought about via
forced symmetry breaking. After describing the properties of the resulting
bursts I will discuss several experiments in which such bursts have been
observed.