CEE 200 Seminar: Dr. Carlos Puente

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Dr. Carlos Puente

Professor of Hydrology, UC Davis
“From Turbulence to Hydrology and Beyond or From Plato to Borges”
Bio
Dr. Carlos E. Puente was born in Cartagena, Colombia and finished his high school at Colegio Alfonso Jaramillo in Bogotá, Colombia in 1972. After completing undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Civil Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, he traveled to the United States in 1980 to pursue his graduate work. He enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering and Operations Research in 1983, followed by his Doctorate in Hydrology in 1984. After remaining at MIT as a Postgraduate Researcher, Dr. Puente joined the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis, where he has been a Professor since 1986.
Dr. Puente is the author of over 60 refereed publications, including the books Treasures inside the Bell: Hidden Order in Chance and The Hypotenuse: An Illustrated Scientific Parable for Turbulent Times, also available in Spanish and Farsi, and The Fig Tree & The Bell: Chaos, Complexity, and Christianity. His research efforts pertain to the development and application of fractal geometric ideas to hydrology and geophysics, the study of an unforeseen route to the Gaussian distribution via iterations of simple mappings, and the investigation of linkages between natural and man-made complexity. Dr. Puente and his collaborators developed a new deterministic approach aimed at addressing the ever elusive problem of geophysical (hydrologic) complexity. Reminiscent of the Platonic notion of reality being a “shadow,” the ideas rely on studying the many interesting projection patterns obtained while using multifractal measures to illuminate fractal interpolating functions.
Read full biography here: http://puente.lawr.ucdavis.edu/cv_biography.htm

Date/Time/Location:
Boelter Hall 4275 
Date - Apr 21, 2016
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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