Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | MATH-IHES |
Subjects | hep-th |
Date | Thursday 13 April 2017 |
Time | 11:00 |
Institute | IHES |
Seminar Room | Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane |
Speaker's Last Name | Goldstein |
Speaker's First Name | Raymond E. |
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Speaker's Institution | University of Cambridge & IHES |
Title | Leonardo, Rapunzel, and the Mathematics of Hair |
Abstract | From Leonardo da Vinci to the Brothers Grimm our fascination with hair has endured in art and science. We love it for its body or volume, the fluffiness and elasticity that comes from its random waves and curls. But apart from a purely tactile response, can we take a more quantitative approach to hair, to explain these macroscopic properties in terms of the behaviour of individual hairs? We know that the important physics governing hair involves the interplay of its elasticity, weight, and curliness, but it is only recently that these have been synthesized into a mathematical theory. This talk will cover those recent advances in the description of physical fiber bundles, including the "Ponytail shape equation" and aspects of "Hairodynamics". |
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