Lectures are free, but registration is required.
Studies of animal movement give us insight into complexity of biological systems and, at the same time, provide inspiration for the design of a new generation of robots. Professor Daniel will tour the world of animal movement and highlight student research projects that shed new light on how creatures control and produce an extraordinary array of motions. Speculation about higher dimensions and surprising recent cosmological observations have spawned a new attempt to understand gravity on the largest and smallest scales. This talk will describe why this has led to a strong sense that we are on the brink of a fundamental breakthrough in physics. In the face of this, it's startling to recognize that the real computing and communications revolution still lies ahead.