Speaker:Dominic Vella (DAMTP)
Venue: Old Combination Room, Trinity College
Time: 06/02/2006 20:30, drinks from 20:15

The physics of an air-water interface seems strange to those of us who are too big to stand still on water and too slow to run across it. In the “real world” there are many phenomena that seem counterintuitive but can be understood using mathematics… and a bit of physics. I will discuss some of these phenomena, how animals use them to their advantage and the mathematics that allows us humans to understand what they are doing.