In its 5th year, APS TV is in New Orleans at the 2017 APS March Meeting. The APS March Meeting is the largest physics meeting in the world, focusing on research from industry, universities, and major labs with over 8,500 attendees expected.
The channel serves to raise the visibility of best practices in the field, as well as to highlight collaborations between diverse institutions including research institutions, universities, and private sector organizations.
Nonlinear Physics deals with the understanding of phenomena on the human scale: chaos, instabilities, disorder, fracture, plasticity and turbulence on the one hand, but also pattern formation and the emergence of complex structures on the other hand. Nonlinear Physics starts where regular methods of theoretical physics fail: there is no small parameter, and therefore no perturbation theory. Often Nonlinear Physics deals with systems that are far from Equilibrium and that exhibit broken symmetries. Progress usually requires the introduction of specialized tools: scale invariance and scaling behaviour, renormalization, fractal geometry etc.
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