[cmath] Fields Institute Public Lecture: Jane Wang (Cornell University)

[Andrea MacLeod]

Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 Public Lecture

Movement, Music, and Mathematics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight

Jane Wang (Cornell University)

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 3:30 p.m.
The Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto

In this public lecture, Jane Wang will explore the connection between two
themes: 
1. Understanding nature's solutions to the Navier-Stokes (fluid dynamics)
equations for locomotion 
2. Understanding our own response to the poetic movement of falling and
flying objects. 

The talk with start with a music dialogue between the rhythm of falling
paper and the sounds of a prepared piano. Jane will then discuss puzzles and
mathematics about the dynamics of falling paper and the tricks used by
insects to fly. The music piece will be performed together with pianist
Annie Lewandowski. Both the talk and the performance will be improvised in
response to the atrium space in the Fields Institute.


A joint initiative with the Canadian Mathematical Society, presented as part
of the Mathematics of Planet Earth Cross-Canada Series of Lectures.