ben@hpldola.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth) (11/12/87)
[comp.edu is kind of backwards. Wouldn't edu.comp be better?] I don't know if this is the right forum to post this question, so please feel free to correct me. Can anyone point me towards the current research in chaotic systems, and which schools are doing work in that area? If you know, what kinds of prerequisites should I expect? adTHANKSvance, Benjamin Ellsworth hplabs!hpldola!ben
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/17/87)
>I don't know if this is the right forum to post this question, so >please feel free to correct me. Perhaps sci.physics? >Can anyone point me towards the current research in chaotic systems, >and which schools are doing work in that area? If you know, what >kinds of prerequisites should I expect? What kind of chaotic systems are you interested in? There are at least three branches. Certain types of theoretical physicists work of the dynamics of small systems, generally unphysical ones, with chaotic motions. There is a large body of work on chaos in the dynamics of fluids; this is done by both physicists and engineers. Finally there is chaos in quantum systems, which interests both extremely high-power theoretical physicists and rather down-to-earth chemical physics types such as myself. Unfortunately, I can't really answer your question except for the chemical physics people. Here at Illinois there are also the first type of physicists. Doug McDonald Department of Chemistry University of Illinois Urbana
ben@hpldola.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth) (11/22/87)
OK, so I'm STUPID!!! :-) :-) I wasn't aware of the diversity in this field. I am primarily interested in the first (?) type that you mentioned; systems with chaotic motions. They are all of interest, however. Can you point me to some references? Why? I don't know. I guess for the same reason that I read about retinas one summer during my junior high school days. ------ Benjamin Ellsworth ...hplabs!hpldola!ben (303) 590-5849