"Observation always
involves theory"
Edwin Hubble
involves theory"
Edwin Hubble
Lectures
Mondays from 5:45-6:45pm at the Rice campus. 5:15-5:45pm Group Discussion
| January 14 | Examples in finance and population growth |
| January 28 | Love affairs |
| February 4 | Orbits, fixed points, periodic points |
| February 11 | Attraction and repulsion |
| February 18 | Logistic map: analysis |
| March 4 | What is Chaos? |
| March 18 | The tent map |
| March 25 | Explore: Fractals; self-similarity and fractals in nature |
| April 1 | Play the chaos game |
| April 8 | Fractal dimensional: surface is 2-dimensional, space has 3 dimensions, what is in between? |
| April 15 | Lorenz water wheel |
| April 22 | Chaos and stability: does nature prefer chaos? |