One Day Meeting
Friday 13 January 2012
ONE DAY MEETING - "GEOMETRY IN SCIENCE",
in the Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street,
Cambridge 9.00am to 5.30pm
A one day scientific meeting covering "geometry" in various senses, both as aspects of mathematics and to illustrate the many ways that scientists use geometric thinking OPEN TO ALL who are interested
Organiser:
Professor Jim Woodhouse
PROGRAMME
9.00-9.15 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.15-9.30 INTRODUCTION - Professor Jim Woodhouse
9.30-10.30 Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS
Department of Physics , University of Bristol
The singularities of light: intensity, phase, polarization
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.00 Professor Chris Calladine FRS
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Some spiral structures in biology (abstract)
12.00-13.00 Professor Gabor Domokos
Department of Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics
Natural numbers, natural shapes (abstract)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH - (NB A buffet lunch will be available see below)
14.00-15.00 Professor Jan Koenderink
Man-Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology
Pictorial space: A geometry of visual awareness (abstract)
15.00-16.00 Professor Gabriel Paternain
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of
Cambridge
Contact geometry in dynamics: the 3-body problem (abstract)
16.00-16.30 AFTERNOON TEA
16.30-17.30 Professor Denis Weaire FRS
School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin
The geometry of foam packings (abstract)
17.30 Meeting Closes
A buffet lunch will be available at a cost of £4.00 in advance or
£5.00 on the day. Numbers for the luncheon are limited and an advance
purchase of a luncheon voucher is recommended to guarantee a place. Please
contact the Cambridge Philosophical Society for details and vouchers.
The first 120 Fellows of the Society to apply will be offered a complimentary
luncheon voucher.