Each course is a small tutorial group which meets on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for detailed lectures and discussions. Each course will normally be limited to a maximum of 25 participants.
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Physicist in the Environment and Information Division of the British Antarctic Survey and School Liaison Officer Scientists from twenty-six nations work in the Antarctic. Many of them study matters of immediate concern - our changing environment. Antarctic studies are crucial for a global perspective of ozone depletion, atmospheric pollution, sea level rise and climate change. In this course we give an overview of the geometry of the highly intricate mathematical objects known as fractals. We look at some notions of fractal dimension, and apply these notions to fractals occurring in the real world and in various mathematical applications.