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unusual facts about Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem


Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem

In the Summer of 1953 Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and Mary Tsingou conducted numerical experiments (i.e. computer simulations) of a vibrating string that included a non-linear term (quadratic in one test, cubic in another, and a piecewise linear approximation to a cubic in a third).


Adrian Melott

He received his Ph.D. in 1981, and followed with postdoctoral work with Arthur Michael Wolfe at Pittsburgh, with the Zeldovich group in Moscow, and as Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Agostino Bonello

He was also responsible for marketing and formed part of the team negotiating with foreign companies in acquiring projects such as Cutthroat Island, White Squall, Skipper and several other films, including various productions of commercials such as Pasta Agnesi, Repsol Oil, Zurich Insurance, Russian Vodka, Borsh, Citroën, Renault 19 and others.

Ajit J. Khubani

He has been featured on many talk shows like The View, Chelsea Lately, Dr. Phil, The Wendy Williams Show, The Today Show and CBS Early Show among others, displaying and demoing his products like the PedEgg, Pasta Boat, Chef Basket, and BottleTop.

Amato's

These locations, found mostly in Irving Oil/Circle K convenience stores, sell Amato's pizza, pasta, salads, and sandwiches, but fewer specialty items.

American Italian Pasta Company

American Italian Pasta Company is a pasta manufacturing company with corporate offices in Kansas City, Missouri, and plants in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; Columbia, South Carolina; Tolleson, Arizona; and Verolanuova, Italy.

Barry Simon

Following his doctoral studies, Simon took professorship at Princeton for many years, often working with colleague Elliott H. Lieb on the Thomas-Fermi Theory and Hartree-Fock Theory of atoms in addition to phase transitions and mentoring many of the same students as Lieb.

Bavette

Bavette (pasta), a type of ribbon pasta noodle, similar to Spaghetti, that has a flat section and a slightly convex shape

Beta decay

A Kurie plot (also known as a Fermi–Kurie plot) is a graph used in studying beta decay developed by Franz N. D. Kurie, in which the square root of the number of beta particles whose momenta (or energy) lie within a certain narrow range, divided by the Fermi function, is plotted against beta-particle energy.

Bill Buford

Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.

Buio Pesto

The name of the group is an Italian way to describe something very dark, but at the same time the word pesto can also refer to the typical Ligurian pasta sauce, the Pesto.

Chandrasekhar limit

In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship among the density, energy and temperature of white dwarfs could be explained by viewing them as a gas of nonrelativistic, non-interacting electrons and nuclei which obeyed Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Christopher Hill

Christopher T. Hill (born 1951), theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Clementi Secondary School

Prof. Sau Lan Wu, Physicist, Enrico Fermi and Vilas Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and winner of 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for "the first evidence for three-jet events in e+e- collisions at PETRA"

Dinkytown

Notable landmarks include the Dinky Dome (a former theological seminary converted to a food court), the Loring Pasta Bar (formerly Gray's Drug and also the building where Bob Dylan lived in Minneapolis), and Al's Breakfast (arguably the city's smallest restaurant).

Dolmio

Dolmio pasta sauce in Australia was originally named Alora and marketed by MasterFoods (previously and now recently Mars), starting in 1985.

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Electron liquid

(b) Integral equation methods, e.g., the CHNC, an acronym for the classical-map hyper-netted-chain method, or the Fermi hyper-netted-chain method.

Fermi Project

Fermi and its projects have made national headlines when they asked Eboo Patel, a Muslim leader and thinker, to present to their ambitious Christian audience.

Fermi–Walker transport

where V is four-velocity, D is the covariant derivative in the Riemannian space, and (,) is scalar product.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

On September 21, 2012, Pastafarian Giorgos Loizos was arrested in Greece on charges of malicious blasphemy and offense of religion for the creation of a satirical Facebook page called "Elder Pastitsios", based on a well-known deceased Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Paisios, where his name and face were substituted with pastitsio – a local pasta and béchamel sauce dish.

In July 2013, a member of the Czech Pirate Party from Brno in the Czech Republic was given permission to wear a pasta strainer on his head for the photograph on his official ID card.

Functional derivative

For the electron-nucleus potential, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

For the classical part of the electron-electron interaction, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

Ida Noddack

Later experiments along a similar line to Fermi's, by Irène Joliot-Curie, and Pavle Savić in 1938 raised what they called "interpretational difficulties" when the supposed transuranics exhibited the properties of rare earths rather than those of adjacent elements.

Interference lithography

A fundamental concern for using low-energy electrons (<<100 eV) with this technique is their natural tendency to repel one another due to Coulomb forces as well as Fermi-Dirac statistics, though electron anti-bunching has been verified only in a single case.

Metal-induced gap states

: \alpha N {vs} >> 1 (The Bardeen Limit), where the high density of interface states pins the Fermi level at that of the semiconductor regardless of \Phi M .

Neutron trail

On March 21, 2011, BBC World Radio contacted Fermi to give an interview regarding the crisis — then taking place — at the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

Otome Pasta ni Kandō

"Otome Pasta ni Kandō" is also featured on the album All of Tanpopo as the opening track.

Pseudogap

In condensed matter physics, a pseudogap describes a state where the Fermi surface of a material possesses a partial energy gap, for example, a band structure state where the Fermi surface is gapped only at certain points.

Ragú

The Cantisano family left to create Cantisano Foods (now LiDestri Foods), and would invent Francesco Rinaldi brand of pasta sauce.

Remo Ruffini

R. Giacconi and R. Ruffini, Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes, LXXV E. Fermi Summer School, SIF and North Holland (1978); also translated into Russian

Ric Salizzo

It was during this period that Salizzo formed production company Pasta Productions with friend and former schoolmate, All Black Sir John Kirwan.

Spin density wave

The concept of a nesting vector is illustrated in the Figure for the famous case of Cr, which transitions from a paramagnetic to SDW state at a Néel temperature of 311 K. Cr is a body-centered cubic metal whose Fermi surface features many parallel boundaries between electron pockets centered at \Gamma and hole pockets at H. These large parallel regions can be spanned by the nesting wavevector q shown in red.

The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

Furthermore, he is less and less able to affect anything: when he shoots Enrico Fermi in the chest, Fermi merely complains of heartburn.

Time domain astronomy

Cherenkov Telescope Array, eROSITA, Fermi, HAWC, INTEGRAL, MAXI, and Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission will look for transients in X-ray and gamma rays.

Timeline of computational physics

Kruskal and Zabusky follow up the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem with further numerical experiments, and coin the term "soliton".

Tortello amaro di Castel Goffredo

The Tortello amaro di Castel Goffredo is a type of stuffed pasta like ravioli and recognized traditional food product of the Lombardy region, typical of the Castel Goffredo in the province of Mantua.

Warehouseman

An Italian warehouseman was someone who stocked goods from Italy such as pasta, olive oil, pickles, perfumes, fruits, paints and pigments (they were often known as Oil and Italian warehouseman or Oilman and Italian warehouseman to highlight the selling of oil products).

Yang–Mills theory

A way out has been given by Ludvig Faddeev and Victor Popov with the introduction of a ghost field (see Faddeev–Popov ghost) that has the property of being unphysical since, although it agrees with Fermi–Dirac statistics, it is a complex scalar field, which violates the spin-statistics theorem.


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