David Wesley Hobill
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics and Astronomy
PhD - Physics
University of Victoria, 1980
MSc - Physics
University of Calgary, 1974
BSc - Physics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1971
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Research Areas
- General Relativity: Black Holes, Gravitational Lensing, Gravitational Radiation, Cosmologcal Models
- Dynamics of Complex Systems: Self-Similarity, Scaling Behaviour, Spatio-Temporal Chaos
- Modelling Biological Systems: Growth of Leaves and Petals, Fractal Structure, Evolutionary Processes
- Computational Physics: Time dependent Systems, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
- Quantum Information Science: Quantum Communication, Information Dynamics, Relations to Gravity
- Geometry and Topology: Riemannian Geometry, Ricci Flow, Kähler Geometries
- Plasma Physics: Auroral Structure Formation, Magnetohydrodynamics
Biography
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