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Information - SSS28 Fractal Structures and Processes in Environmental Systems
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Event Information |
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In the natural environment, there is a great need to quantitatively describe complex physicochemical systems and processes. By their very nature, environmental systems are disordered and are thus perfect candidates for a quantitative description using fractal dimensions. Indeed, fractal geometry has been successfully employed to describe aggregate structures in air, water, soils and sediments; flow through porous media; distributions of organisms, and adsorption and reaction kinetics, among other topics. The Session will be devoted to provide the attendants with a novel and valuable approach to the significance and usefulness of the fractal geonetry to environmental system phenomenology, with focus on the chemistry, biochemistry, physical-chemistry and analytical chemistry of structures, properties and processes in environmental systems, with due comparison to the more classical approachs. This objective can be extended to the industrial and professional community dealing with practical aspects of environmental systems by providing a fundamental knowledge basis for facing and solving practical environmental problems. The Session could include four or five invited lectures (to be partially supported by IUPAC funds and according to the time available) to be selected among: (1) Fractal theory and approachs for studying environmental systems; (2) Methods and techniques for fractal analysis of environmental systems; (3) Fractal structures and processes of environmental aquatic colloids and particles; (4) Fractal approach to adsorption/desorption processes on environmental surfaces; (5) Fractal morphology and growth of microorganisms in the natural environment; (6) Fractal geometry of aerosol particles.
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Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers |
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1. Prof. Dr. Philippe Baveye, SIMBIOS Centre, Univ. of Abertay, Dundee, UK
2. Prof. Dr. Stefan Sokolowski, MSC Univ., Dublin, Poland
3. Prof. Dr. Lynne Boddy, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff, UK
4. Prof. Dr. James A. Rice, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, USA
5. Dr. Serge Stoll, Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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