![]() Video footage of synchronous fireflies, and the notorious crowd synchrony that triggered the wobbling of London's Millennium Bridge, will be shown.Īfter receiving his bachelor's degree, Strogatz spent two years as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. After all, the forces that synchronize fireflies have nothing to do with those in a laser.īut at a deeper level, they are all connected by the same mathematical theme: self-organization, the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos. On the surface, these phenomena might seem unrelated. ![]() Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth the intense coherence of a laser comes from trillions of atoms pulsing together. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most mysterious and pervasive drives in all of nature. ![]() What caused hundreds of Japanese children to fall into seizures while watching an episode of the cartoon show Pokemon? Why do women roommates sometimes find that their menstrual periods occur in sync? ![]() Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order ISR Distinguished Lecturer: Steven Strogatz, "Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order"ģ01 405 Distinguished Lecturer and Physics Colloquium ![]()
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