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CPM Seminar

Self-organized criticality in sandpile models
and interface depinning

Mikko Alava

Helsinki University of Technology

I discuss the physics of sandpile models of ``self-organized criticality'' and show how to map many typical models to interface depinning. This allows to understand or to view in a new light some of the unsolved problems like what SOC really is and what are the differences between various models.

Tuesday, August 22nd 2000, 14:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)