Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar

Thursday, February 9, 2006, 12:30--1:50pm

BAG 261


Bose-Einstein Condensates: An Example of Nonlinearity

Brandon Bale

University of Washington Applied Mathematics Graduate Student

A popular and interesting subject in physics is Bose-Einstein Condensation. In particular, this is of interest due to the advances in both the experimental realization of condensates and the analytical description of the physical system. In this talk, I will discuss what a Bose Condensate is, how experimentalists achieve it, and how the nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation is used to describe the dynamics.