Spatio-temporal Patterns

Straight up. Patterns ( in space and time! spatiotemporal patterns!) are the coolest. And they are everywhere!

We see and recognize patterns when we can pick out something that's regular and repeats.  Patterns can be made from and in pretty much anything!

We appreciate patterns in art and fashion:

And nature:

                                                                      Seashells!

                                                                Animal skins!

And in the laboratory of course!

One of the main research thrusts of our lab ( and hey, I didn't come up with that terminology!) and my research passion  is spatio-temporal pattern formation.  The pattern I've been working with lately is the spiral.  Look forward to more detail in the future, but here's the teaser photo:

                           Segmententing Spirals in the Belousov Zhabotinsky Aerosol OT Reaction