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SUMMARY:The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify? - Professor Tim
  Palmer\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20190213T193000Z
DTEND:20190213T203000Z
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CONTACT:Akshat Pandey
DESCRIPTION:Meteorologist Ed Lorenz was one of the founding fathers of cha
 os theory. In 1963 he showed with just three simple equations that the wor
 ld around us could be both completely deterministic and yet practically un
 predictable. In the 1990s\, Lorenz’s work was popularised by science wri
 ter James Gleick who used the phrase “The Butterfly Effect” to describ
 e Lorenz’s work. The notion that the flap of a butterfly’s wings could
  change the course of weather was an idea that Lorenz himself used. Howeve
 r\, he used it to describe something much more radical - he didn’t know 
 whether the Butterfly Effect was true or not.\n\nIn this lecture Tim Palme
 r discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work\, and compares and contrasts th
 e meaning of the “Butterfly Effect"" as most people understand it today\
 , and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Ro
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