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Gordon Research Conference on Fractals
May 10-15 1998
il Ciocco, Barga, Italy
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Speakers:
Hans Herrmann: "Fluctuations and internal avalanches
in granular packings"
Per Bak: "Learning from mistakes"
Robin Ball: "Lacunarity"
A. Blumen: "Fractal aspects in polymer science"
Elisabeth Bouchaud: "Self-Affine Scaling of Fracture Surfaces"
Depak Dahr: "Emergent Spatial Structures in a Stochastic
Sandpile Model"
Phil Duxbury: "Force Percolation Networks"
John Grotzinger: "Turbidites and Stromatolites"
Rocky Hardy: "Using fractal distributions to model Earth strata"
Mogens Hogh-Jensen: "Hydrodynamics"
Rajiv Kalia: "MD simulation of Fractures"
Knut-Jorgen Maloy: "Fractures of brittle materials"
Benoit Mandelbrot: "Fractals and Scaling in Finance"
Maya Paczuski: "Universality in Sand-piles,
Interface Depinning and Earthquake Models"
Luciano Pietronero: "Fractal Distribution of Galaxies"
C. Puente: "Fractal Antennas"
Rudolf Riedi: "Multi-fractal Properties of TCP traffic"
Dan Rothman: "Erosion of inclined topography"
Bernard Sapoval: "Critical Dynamics in the Self-stabilized
Etching of Random Solids"
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Discussion Leaders:
Amnon Aharony, Carl Evertsz, Alex Hansen, Rudolf Hilfer,
Paul Meakin, Miroslav Novak
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The conference is held at a very nice site:
Il Ciocco Centro Internazionale
55020 Castelvecchio Pascoli
Lucca, Italy
Tel: (39) 583-7191
Fax: (39) 583-723197
Castelvecchio Pascoli is situated in the northern Tuscany region
approximately 40 km (26 miles) from Lucca, 60 km (39 miles) from Pisa
and 110 km (74miles)from Florence.
It can be reached by taking the A/11 motorway from Rome or Bologna to
the exit for Lucca. Coming from Genoa, take the A/12 motorway to
Viareggio then the A/11 to Lucca.
Daily international flights connect directly to Pisa from London,
Paris, Frankfort and via Rome or Milan.
Excellent train service runs from Pisa to Barga/Gallicano (about 5 km
from il Ciocco), and a taxi to the hotel costs about 12,000 Lira. Il
Ciocco offers a complimentary bus from the Pisa airport to the
conference site.
They have tennnis courts pool etc.
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Chair: Jens Feder Vice Chair:Richard Voss
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