Colloquium

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Dr. Anthony Tongen
James Madison University

Thursday November 5, 2009
4:15 p.m.—Manchester Hall, Rm 016

Reinventing the Wheel

The chaotic waterwheel is a well studied and fairly well understood problem in dynamical systems literature.  In brief, a wheel with punctured cups equally spaced around a wheel driven by a single source of water will display chaotic behavior by tuning two parameters: flow rate and friction.  This talk will begin with an introduction to the physical setup of the waterwheel and the mathematical analyses.

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in Manchester Hall Room 336.

Host contact: Parslerj@wfu.edu