By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsFile -- ITHACA, N.Y. - How does the Japanese tree frog figure into the latest work of noted mathematician Steven Strogatz? As it turns out, quite prominently.
“We had read about these funny frogs that hop around and croak,” said Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics. “They form patterns in space and time. Usually it’s about reproduction. And based on how the other guy or guys are croaking, they don’t want to be around another one that’s croaking at the same time as they are, because they’ll jam each other.”
Strogatz and Kevin O’Keeffe, Ph.D. ‘17, used the curious mating ritual of male Japanese tree frogs as inspiration for their exploration of “swarmalators” - their term for systems in which both synchronization and swarming occur together.
Specifically, they considered oscillators whose phase dynamics and spatial dynamics are coupled. In the instance of the male …
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(2017-12-04), Mathematician’s study of ‘swarmalators’ could direct future science, NewsFile, 128, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 014802783