Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires
Scientific American News, March 22
http://tinyurl.com/59dcxIt is about Bruce D. Malamud's work
at King's College, London: he examines
in the spirit of Per Bak Self-Organized
Criticality applied to Natural Hazards
(forest fires, earthquakes,..), mainly
through Cellular Automata models. Recently
he has published another PNAS paper,
where he examined 88,916 US wildfires
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0500880102v1Of course he has discovered some special
power-laws and power-law exponents, see
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/power-laws.htmlSome of his older papers can be found here
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~malamud/BDM_Papers_PDF/J.
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