Department of Mathematics
Title : Erupting Rocks and Dusts
| Speaker: Professor Mark McGuinness Affiliation: Victoria University of Wellington Time: 2 pm Thursday, 9 May, 2013 Location: Room 561-303 |
Abstract
| Volcanoes provide endless fascination and sometimes awesome power and danger. Mathematics can be used to help understand how expanding gases break rock and cause hot rock and ash to erupt violently from earth to air in huge black clouds. I will describe recent mathematical modelling that was inspired by laboratory observations of exploding rocks and dusts, and the implications of this modelling for the homogeneity of ejected materials. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
