877436 VO Diffusion and Migration (2003W)
Interdisciplinary migration: From Diffusion in Phyics to the Spread of Plants, Animals, Men and Ideas.
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UZA II -Geozentrum HS 1, Althanstrasse, 6.10., 11:00
Kl.HS Inst.Materialphysik, Strudlhofgasse 4, 3. Stock, 7.10., 14:00
UZA II -Geozentrum HS 1, Althanstrasse, 6.10., 11:00
Kl.HS Inst.Materialphysik, Strudlhofgasse 4, 3. Stock, 7.10., 14:00
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PD250,310,P251c;LA-PH211
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Diffusion is an omnipresent phenomenon in physics, chemistry and biology. With the interpretation of "Brownian motion" nearly exactly hundred years ago Albert Einstein made an essential step to explain the random movements of single molecules in liquid and solid materials. The interest in logical explanations of diffusion movements outside the "hard natural sciences", e.g. the migration of plants, animals, men and ideas grew withprogressive understanding of the physicalphenomenon of diffusion. In this lecture we want to show without much mathematics the impressive similarities of different migrations. Historical and new papers will be discussed, from the migration of neolithic farmers (e.g. L.L.Cavalli-Sforza, The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe (1984)) until the newest publications on the migration of fashions, opinions, stock market prices (e.g. F.Schweitzer, Physik Journal, May 2003).