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DTSTART:20171212T180500Z
DTEND:20171212T190000Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Fractal occupancy of human landscapes: The concept of profit i
 n Evansville\, WI\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Tim Allen\, UW D
 epartment of Botany
DESCRIPTION:Systems are predictable on two criteria: the thermodynamic
 s of process\; rate-independent constraints.  The economics of this di
 stinction is high gain\, straight consumption of quality fuel\, versus
  low gain where low quality material is processed to make quality fuel
 .  A quality resource might sit on a hot spot.  Evansville\, WI\, is a
  low gain system that depended on rail road (which is planned).   Jane
 sville and Madison are high gain depending or roads and fossil fuel.  
 Roads are not planned\, they simply straighten and widen in response t
 o the flux of traffic.  Railroads and roads end up with roughly the sa
 me fractal dimension\, but railroads branch out from the main line\, w
 hile roads emerge up scale from small roads to turnpikes.  Evansville 
 depends on a diffuse low quality landscape\, while amassing capital by
  concentration.  Janesville and Madison depend on high quality\, local
 ly focused resources. The argument turns on my satellite repairman bas
 ed in Evansville\, servicing a diffuse landscape with information and 
 constraint structure.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4695
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