{"652119":{"#nid":"652119","#data":{"type":"event","title":"When Physics Meets Literature: Fractality in Western Novels","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGuest Speakers: Professor Stanis\u0142aw Dro\u017cd\u017c and Professor Pawe\u0142 Oswiecimka from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Science\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/uj2DeWN4ep\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/uj2DeWN4ep\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/uj2DeWN4ep\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDro\u017cd\u017c\u0026nbsp;and Oswiecimka studied 113 novels in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, and found that the length of sentences almost always forms fractal patterns.\u0026nbsp;Even James Joyce\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFinnegan Wake\u003C\/em\u003E, one of the most intriguing literary \u0026lsquo;compositions\u0026rsquo; ever, presents a symmetric architecture look from the perspective of formal quantitative approach\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA truly interdisciplinary research!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event is co-sponsored by the School of Modern Languages, School of Physics, China Research Center, Atlanta Global Studies Center, and the linguistics program at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOpen to the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin the School of Modern Languages for an interdisciplinary discussion with Polish Academy of Science physicists Professor Stanis\u0142aw Dro\u017cd\u017c and Professor Pawe\u0142 Oswiecimka.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join the School of Modern Languages for an interdisciplinary discussion with Polish Academy of Science physicists Professor Stanis\u0142aw Dro\u017cd\u017c and Professor Pawe\u0142 Oswiecimka."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2021-10-27 00:55:32","changed_gmt":"2021-11-10 19:50:34","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-11-12T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-11-12T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-11-12T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-11-12 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-11-12 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-11-12 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3747","name":"literature"},{"id":"960","name":"physics"},{"id":"189185","name":"fractal"},{"id":"189186","name":"polish academy of science"},{"id":"189187","name":"institute of nuclear physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJin\u0026nbsp;Liu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssociate Professor of Chinese\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jin.liu@modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejin.liu@modlangs.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}