maandag 26 mei 2008

About my blog

The title of my blog, Mara's complex web, refers to Mara, the buddhist personification of the conditioned world. He symbolizes how everything in the world influences the rest of the world. The reason of this title is that I intend to write down some connected idea's about mathematics, complex systems, nuclear fusion, (magneto)hydrodynamics, neuroscience, buddhism and society. The main theme in my idea's and thoughts is the structure of relations between objects and how this network of relations determines how the objects influence each other. More concrete this theme can be observed in e.g. small-world networks and category theory .

My own phd. work (at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) is related to controlling instabilities in nuclear fusion plasmas. Those plasmas are certainly more complex than the other three phases (solid, liquid, gas) and show phenomena like self-organization, cascades because of self organized criticality, complex dynamics and locking of nonlinear oscillations etc.