Clustering and Correlations in Fluctuating Environments
Higgs Centre colloquium
Clustering and Correlations in Fluctuating Environments
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 19th April 2019
- Speaker: Professor Mustansir Barma ( Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Shared histories lead to strong correlations. Thus, particles which find themselves in the same evolving environment have a tendency to cluster and approach an interesting state. This talk is about such states, their scaling properties, and how they develop in time. A key signature is that the scaled correlation function is singular at small argument, with either a cusp or a divergence. Possible manifestations in the context of biology (clustering of membrane components on cell surfaces) and granular media (vibrated rods) will be discussed.
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..