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Public lecture by Étienne Ghys

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dancing Vortices

Étienne Ghys
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

University of Oxford
Mathematical Institute

Lecture Theatre 1
Andrew Wiles Building

5:00 pm, October 1

Vortices do amazing things. They dance, they tie themselves in knots, they challenge mathematicians to explain them.

After the lecture, Étienne Ghys will be presented with the first Clay Award for the Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge.

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Overview

Nineteenth century observations of the behaviour of smoke rings and fluid vortices inspired an ingenious but misconceived model of the atom, a flawed proposal that nonetheless gave birth to the modern theory of knots. The chain of ideas has now come full circle with recent theoretical and experimental results on the existence of knotted vortices.

Public lecture by Étienne Ghys

Dancing Vortices

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