Colloquium: Karin Dahmen: "Universal Avalanches and Prediction: from Nanoindentation and the Brain to Earthquakes and Stars?"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Slowly-compressed nano-crystals, bulk metallic glasses, rocks, granular materials, and the earth all deform via intermittent slips or “quakes”. We find...