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SUMMARY:Rachel Kuske (Georgia Tech)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UCLADistingu
 ishedLectures/42/">Is the world smooth or non-smooth? Can mathematics tell
  us?</a>\nby Rachel Kuske (Georgia Tech) as part of UCLA distinguished lec
 ture series\n\n\nAbstract\nIn modeling different dynamical processes in ph
 ysics\, engineering\, and the life\nsciences we often use models that have
  some kind of smoothness associated\nwith their evolution. Meanwhile\, mod
 els with abrupt changes – non-smoothness\n– have recently seen more fr
 equent demand\, application\, and success. These\ncontrasts raise a number
  of questions\, such as\, which type should we use? Are\nthe non-smooth mo
 dels driving new mathematics? Has our preference for\ncertain types of mat
 hematical properties kept us from considering certain types\nof models? We
  consider some non-smooth models on completely different\nscales\, in the 
 areas climate\, energy transfer\, and neural feedback\, to see what\nthese
  models can capture about the systems they describe. These examples also\n
 provide some perspectives about the mathematics that is needed and availab
 le\nfor understanding and applying these models.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UCLADistinguishedLectures/42/
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