The Talbot effect in a non-linear dynamics.

Series
School of Mathematics Colloquium
Time
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Luis Vega – BCAM-Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Scientific Director) and University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU – lvega@bcamath.orghttp://www.bcamath.org/en/people/lvega
Organizer
Zaher Hani
In the first part of the talk I shall present a linear model based on the Schrodinger equation with constant coefficient and periodic boundary conditions that explains the so-called Talbot effect in optics. In the second part I will make a connection of this Talbot effect with turbulence through the Schrodinger map which is a geometric non-linear partial differential equation.