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SUMMARY:Physics and Complexity : An Overview - Professor David Sherrington
 \, FRS\, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics\, University of Oxf
 ord and Santa Fe Institute\, Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, USA
DTSTART:20090427T151500Z
DTEND:20090427T161500Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will present a broad overview of complex macrosco
 pic behaviour arising in\nmany-body systems through the combination of com
 petitive interactions and disorder\, even with simple ingredients at the m
 icroscopic level.\nAn attempt will be made to indicate and illustrate the 
 richness that has arisen\, in conceptual understanding\, in methodology an
 d in application\, across a large range of scientific disciplines\, togeth
 er with a hint of some of the further opportunities that remain to be tapp
 ed. The perspective will be that of physics\, trying to show how concepts 
 and methodologies of physics\nhave contributed and been stimulated.\n
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Ph
 ysics
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