Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere 15 November 2018 - 5.15pm
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In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream.

Understanding tidal bores involves
· analogies with tsunamis, rainbows, horizons in relativity, and ideas from quantum physics;
· the concept of a ‘minimal model’ in mathematical explanation;
· different ways in which different cultures describe the same thing;
· the first unification in fundamental physics.

Michael Berry is Emeritus Professor of Physics, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol

5.15pm
Mathematical Institute
Oxford

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Date: 15 November 2018, 17:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker: Michael Berry (University of Bristol)
Organising department: Mathematical Institute
Organiser contact email address: lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
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Booking email: external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk
Cost: n/a
Audience: Public
Editor: Dyrol Lumbard