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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Hydrodynamic quantum analogs
DTSTART:20200225T121500
DTEND:20200225T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. John W. M. Bush\, Department of Mathematics\, Massachuse
 tts Institute of Technology (MIT)\nAbstract:\nIn 2005\, Yves Couder and Em
 manuel Fort discovered that droplets walking on a vibrating fluid bath exh
 ibit several features previously thought to be exclusive to the microscopi
 c\, quantum realm. These walking droplets propel themselves by virtue of a
  resonant interaction with their own wave field\, and represent the first 
 macroscopic realization of a pilot-wave system of the form proposed for mi
 croscopic quantum dynamics by Louis de Broglie in the 1920s. New experimen
 tal and theoretical results allow us to rationalize the emergence of quant
 um-like behavior in this hydrodynamic pilot-wave system in a variety of se
 ttings\, and explore its potential and limitations as a quantum analog.\n\
 nBio:\nJohn Bush is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT. Having comp
 leted his BSc in Physics at University of Toronto\, he went on to Harvard 
 for his PhD in Geophysics\, then the University of Cambridge for postdocto
 ral research at DAMTP. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1998\, was tenured 
 in 2004 and is now the Director of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory. His
  research began in geophysics\, but then shifted towards surface-tension-d
 riven phenomena and their applications in biology. For the past decade\, h
 is research has been focused on hydrodynamic quantum analogs.\n 
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418
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