The impact of Emergence, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Chaos Theory on Engineering

This talk first provides an overview of nonlinear dynamics and emergence, as well as their relationship to engineering. Then methods for mathematically analyzing and modeling both nonlinear dynamics and emergence are covered. The basic mathematics beginning with Lorenz equations and Lyapunov exponents, and moving on to current advances in modeling and predicting emergences are presented. Finally, the relationship of these topics to engineering, particularly failure analysis, is covered. Attendees will gain a general understanding of the current state of research coupled with insight into recent trends.

[maxheadrom]

13:35 Karl Popper makes some observations about human interactions on his 1950s book "The Open Society And Its Enemies" - he uses the term "conspiracy theory of society" to describe the oversimplied explanations often found in human sciences. Popper claims that since the system is tremendously complex, any simplification is a false explanation. (if I'm not mistaken it's around pg. 360 of the most recent single volume edition).

Note: the lecturer is really good and manages to keep the audience's focus.

Note 2: I don't mean to disrespect metheorologists but I'll mention that Lorenz was a mathematician specialized (if I'm not mistaken) in turbulence.

[maxheadrom]

There's a sub-branch of optimization methods called "biology inspired optimization" - probably the most well known method is evolutionary optimization.

[maxheadrom]

I must say the first few minutes were really funny.

[maxheadrom]

The whole webminar is an example of complexity and emergence ... specially when the audio starts to cut!