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SUMMARY:Mathematics of the mob
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is free to attend and open to all\, but registratio
 n is required in advance – book your seat via Eventbrite (external 
 link).\nInteract on social media via the hashtag #mobmaths\n \n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\nMeet our new professors\nPierre Degond\, Professor of Applied Math
 ematics at Imperial College London \nHow do flocks of birds or schools of
  fish appear to act as one self-aware organism? How do political or social
  movements spread across populations? And why do many of us continue to sp
 end our commutes stationary in traffic jams?\nMathematics is guiding us to
 wards answers. The behaviour displayed by each of these phenomenon is unde
 rpinned by similar mathematical structures describing self-organisation an
 d collective behaviour. It’s a set of rules that brings together individ
 uals unaware of the broader process they are partaking in\, but as a group
  show collective determined\, smart behaviour.\nProfessor Pierre Degond is
  a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Imperial who is interested in how t
 o understand these ‘emergence phenomena’ from a mathematical perspecti
 ve. In his lecture he will talk through his application of classical mathe
 matical physics to a variety of exotic systems\, addressing issues as dive
 rse as designing efficient pedestrian infrastructures to improving artific
 ial insemination success rates.\nAbout the speaker\nPierre Degond is curre
 ntly a Chair Professor in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London. 
 Before joining the College\, he was at the “Institut de Mathématiques d
 e Toulouse” in France where he held a Senior Researcher position from th
 e French Research Centre CNRS. \nPierre Degond was trained at the Ecole N
 ormale Supérieure in Paris and his first appointment was in Ecole Polytec
 hnique in Palaiseau as a Junior Researcher at CNRS. He was then appointed 
 as a full Professor in Ecole Normale Superieure of Cachan before joining b
 ack the CNRS in Toulouse where he founded the Applied Math group. He moved
  to Imperial College in October 2013.\nHe is interested in collective dyna
 mics\, decision making and self-organization in complex systems arising fr
 om biology and social sciences. His methods combine analysis\, asymptotic 
 theory and multi-scale numerical techniques. His earlier interests were in
  plasma physics\, rarefied gas dynamics and semiconductor modelling. For m
 ore on his research interests\, please\, consult his Personal Web Page.\nH
 e has been awarded the Jacques-Louis Lions prize 2013 of the French Academ
 y of Sciences and he is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holde
 r.\n 
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/102163/mathematics-of-the-mob/
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