Math Talk: What does chaos mean in mathematics?

Join us for a math talk with Professor Chio on "What does chaos mean in mathematics?"

Abstract: In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm explained to Ellie Sattler that chaos `simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems'. In mathematics, chaos is usually studied under a branch called dynamical systems, which seeks to understand long term behaviour of systems that evolve over time. In this talk, we will give a broad overview of how different notions of `chaos' lead to many interesting discoveries in mathematics, starting with Lorenz's discovery of the butterfly effect in the 1960s.

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