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Title:
Do clouds solve PDEs?

Speaker:
Predrag Cvitanovic

Abstract:
A not very ma-the-matical, mostly conceptual tribute to Mitchell J. Feigenbaum's and his friends 2AM thoughts about what was to be accomplished and much laughter about how it all turned out.Spoiler: not for a second did we believe that clouds are supercomputers in the sky. Instead of cranking Newton's time-evolution laws for fluids we sought insights into shapes in the sky. Or in brains. Perhaps theories where there is no time, there is only repertoires of spatiotemporal patterns.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=4670

Workshop:
Simons- Workshop: Renormalization retrospective: Feigenbaum Memorial Conference