Seminar in Earth Flows / Invited Lecturer
Title: Universality and avalanches in growth and depinning
Speaker: Pierre Le Doussal, LPT, Ecole Normal Superieure, France
Time and place: 24 May, 12:15 PM, PGP seminar room (FV 414), 4. floor, Physics building
Abstract:
We discuss experiments where growth occurs in presence of noise and quenched disorder, and identify some universality classes.
Presentation of a field theory which predicts in details the statistics of avalanches for a class of disordered elastic systems, and show how the universality class extend to sandpile models. We discuss open questions in the field.
All interested are welcome to the seminar
About the Research Group - EarthFlows
The cross-disciplinary research group EarthFlows is a strategic initiative selected by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo, and includes participants from the Department of Geosciences, Department of Physics, and Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo.
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