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  • Advanced Search Strategies in Anomalous Dynamics

    Advanced Search Strategies in Anomalous Dynamics

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    LML External Fellow Rainer Klages was awarded a research grant by the Office of Naval Research Global (USA) of US$117,000 to study how living organisms like cells, bumblebees or turtles optimize their search for food.

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  • Science on Screen: Dr. Strangelove with Sandra Chapman

    Science on Screen: Dr. Strangelove with Sandra Chapman

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    The third Science on Screen of the third series was presented by Sandra Chapman (Professor of Physics at University of Warwick), who chose Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Sandra described some of the salient features of complex systems,

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  • Stochastic Chaos in a Turbulent Swirling Flow

    Stochastic Chaos in a Turbulent Swirling Flow

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    LML External Fellow Yuzuru Sato has recently reported the experimental evidence of the existence of stochastic chaos in a turbulent swirling flow.  Together with co-authors (D. Faranda, B. Saint-Michel, C. Wiertel, V. Padilla, B. Dubrulle, and F. Daviaud), he shows that the […]

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  • Summer School 2017

    Summer School 2017

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    LML welcomed 8 project students to the summer school for 4 weeks in July/August. The students came from Cameroon, China, Japan, Israel, Italy, and the UK.  For project descriptions and presentations, see Summer School 2017. Next year’s summer school will be announced […]

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  • Write About Science

    Write About Science

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    Part of what makes LML special is the atmosphere of open discourse that has developed here. Communicating our work, we find, is inseparable from doing that work in the first place.

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  • A recipe for irreproducibility

    A recipe for irreproducibility

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    During the 2016 LML summer school, Max and I ended up discussing the irreproducibility crisis in science, and that led to a draft manuscript, published today on the arXiv:1706.07773, see also this earlier blog post. Over the last few years several (apparently […]

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  • Science on Screen: Particle Fever with Semir Zeki

    Science on Screen: Particle Fever with Semir Zeki

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    The second Science on Screen of the third series was presented by Semir Zeki (Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL), who chose Dir Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever. Semir described how brain scans are now beginning to reveal centres of the brain associated with […]

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  • LML External Fellow Isaac Perez – New Paper

    LML External Fellow Isaac Perez – New Paper

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    LML External Fellow Isaac Perez has had his paper titled ‘Improving randomness characterization through Bayesian model selection’ accepted to Nature: Scientific Reports. The paper can he accessed here.

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  • Science on Screen: Minority Report presented by Venki Ramakrishnan

    Science on Screen: Minority Report presented by Venki Ramakrishnan

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    Minority Report explores a world where a technological breakthrough has allowed mankind to foresee violent crimes a few minutes before they take place. The predictions are infallible except – and here the logic must not be excessively scrutinised — a special police […]

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  • LML External Fellow Isaac Perez – New Paper

    LML External Fellow Isaac Perez – New Paper

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    LML External Fellow Isaac Perez has completed and submitted his joint paper titled ‘Level compressibility for the Anderson model on regular random graphs and the absence of non-ergodic extended eigenfunctions’ to Physical Review Letters. Working alongside Fernando Metz from the University of Santa […]

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