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UrduOriginally developed for electric cars, nowadays they supply mobile phone antennas with electricity, and tomorrow perhaps entire districts: The salt battery is a safe and long-lasting battery technology with huge potential. Empa researchers are collaborating with an industrial partner to further develop these special batteries.
Tag: Geometry
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series: Soccer Balls: Their History, Geometries, and Aerodynamics (30 Oct 2024)
Join us for the HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series: Soccer Balls: Their History, Geometries, and Aerodynamics!
Discover the fascinating evolution of soccer ball designs and their impact on the game.
Baylor Mathematicians Create New Math Track at Crossroads of Geometry and Harmonic Analysis
Baylor University mathematicians Dorina Mitrea, Ph.D., and Marius Mitrea, Ph.D., along with Irina Mitrea, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Temple University, have co-authored an unprecedented 5-volume, 5,000-page original research monograph that creates a new track in mathematics.
Geometric Harmonic Analysis (GHA) is a specific area of mathematics at the crossroads of two well-established branches: geometry and harmonic analysis.
Playing all the angles: A high-contrast grating structure for direction-tunable lasing
Lasers find applications across several fields ranging from telecommunications and remote sensing to medicine.
Pac-Man and Picasso: WVU researcher pushes the boundaries of learning in mathematics education
Keri Valentine, an associate professor of mathematics education at West Virginia, has turned to Pac-Man and Picasso as new ways of engaging students in math learning.
Morphogenesis: Geometry, Physics, and Biology – L. Mahadevan webcast
On Wednesday, May 5 at 7 pm ET, Perimeter Institute presents a special public talk by Harvard University’s L. Mahadevan, who will explain how the intersections of physics, biology, and mathematics are unveiling the amazing complexity of life.
Mathematicians Seek to Unravel Mysteries Hinted at by M. C. Escher
A workshop hosted by Rutgers mathematician Alex Kontorovich will ask, among other things, what a famous M. C. Escher illustration would look like in 1,001 dimensions. Welcome to the world of “hyperbolic reflection groups.”