Chaos theory presents a universe that, in obeying the fundamental physical laws, is deterministic, but with a predisposition for disorder, complexity and unpredictability. Its abstract geometrical form reveals through computer graphs the inordinate capacity for self organisation in nature, the simplest of model descriptions producing repetitive lifelike patterns whose exquisite substructure characterises the nature of chaos, indicating when predictability breaks down. It is a theory which couples the classical concept of determinism (the embodiment of Newton's physics whereby the future is uniquely determined by the past) with probability theory and through this reveals surprisingly new perspectives of the universal nature of order, uncertainty and complexity.
The aim of the one day meeting is to overview, through invited presentations from eminent scientists, some of the remarkable developments that have occurred in this new discipline over the last decade. The scope of the meeting is from classical chaos to concepts of quantum chaos, from control of chaos to pattern formation and pattern recognition, from optics to arithmetic and from boats to the solar system.
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Chaos and Self Organisation in Nature
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