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Details for Professor Carl Dettmann
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Carl Dettmann |
| Job title | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~macpd/ |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | A.Mus.A (piano), B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.(Physics) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Fellow of the Institute of Physics |
| Keywords | chaos fractals mathematical billiards relativity statistical physics wireless networks |
| Areas of expertise | Nonlinear dynamics ("chaos theory"), which describes much of the complicated and unpredictable behaviour in the physical universe, and also intricate "fractal" shapes. Statistical mechanics: How large scale properties of matter are derived from forces between molecules. Connections between statistical mechanics and chaos. Computer simulation methods. Relativity: Einstein's theory of space, time and gravity. Wireless communications: Connectivity of spatially distributed random networks. |
| Media experience | Interviews for the Mathematics Ethnography Project and radio BCfm. |