CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Greg Laughlin (Yale University), "Poincaré's Legacy: Predictions on Time Scales Ranging from Milliseconds to Billions of Years"
When:
Thursday, November 2, 2017
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Gretchen Oehlschlager
(847) 467-1338
Group: CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Note: campus parking lots are restricted during the day. Please try the North Campus Garage, or look for nearby street parking.
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Greg Laughlin, Professor of Astronomy
Yale University
Host: Ben Nelson
Talk Title
Poincaré's Legacy: Predictions on Time Scales Ranging from Milliseconds to Billions of Years
Abstract
I will discuss and connect two long-standing, and at first glance entirely unrelated, problems of prediction: (1) the long-term dynamical stability of the Solar System, and (2) price movements and volatility in financial markets. These phenomena have radically different governing mechanisms, and their characteristic time scales are vastly different, but they share a key common basis in the random walk, and the study of both can be traced directly back to the work of Henri Poincaré.