Walkers Induced Wobbling of Pedestrian Bridges

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Prof. Guillermo Goldsztein – School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology – ggold@math.gatech.eduhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/~ggold
Organizer
Hangfan (Frank) Li

Please Note: Food and Drinks will be provided before the seminar.

We will discussing the wobbling of some pedestrian bridges induced by walkers when crowded and show how this discussion leads to several problems that can be studied with the help of mathematical modeling, analysis and simulations.