PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

Time: 4pm April 15 2011

Place: S11

Myriad maelstroms: from quantum whirlpools to electromagnetic nano-vortices

Prof. David Paganin
(Monash University)

From atoms to galaxies, from chaotic fields to cosmic strings, vortices abound in the natural world. In this talk I will describe some recent work on vortices in both quantum-mechanical and classical fields.