MIDIT OFD CATS Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics Optics and Fluid Dynamics Chaos and Turbulence Studies and Irreversible Thermodynamics Risø National Laboratory Niels Bohr Institute and Technical University of Denmark Building 128 Department of Chemistry Building 321 P.O. Box 49 University of Copenhagen DK-2800 Lyngby DK-4000 Roskilde DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark Denmark Denmark
by Kurt Wiesenfel
School of Physics
Georgia Tech,
Atlanta, USA
MIDIT-seminar 442
Thursday February 18, 1999, 15.00 h
at MIDIT, IMM Building 305, room 027
Abstract: Stochastic Resonance is a phenomenon where the ability of a system to detect weak signals can improve as the environmental noise level increases. This effect is now firmly established in a wide variety of physical and, more recently, biological systems. I will give a broad introduction to the subject, starting with its beginnings as an explanation of the periodic occurrence of ice ages on Earth, up to recent ideas how stochastic resonance might be usefully exploited.