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Joceline Lega

Joceline Lega is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Joceline Lega rather than just read about it. In short: Joceline Claude Lega is a French physicist and applied mathematician, interested in nonlinear dynamics. She is a professor in the departments of mathematics, applied mathematics, and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Arizona, and editor-in-chief of Physica D.

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Reference excerpt

Joceline Claude Lega is a French physicist and applied mathematician, interested in nonlinear dynamics. She is a professor in the departments of mathematics, applied mathematics, and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Arizona, and editor-in-chief of Physica D.

Education and career After studying physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1984 to 1988, and earning licentiate and maîtrise degrees in physics through Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1985, Lega earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1986 and a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1989, both at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Her dissertation was Topological defects associated with the breaking of time translation invariance. She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1989, and took a leave from CNRS to join the University of Arizona in 1997. At Arizona, she was the director of the Program in Integrated Science (from 2008 to 2011), and the Institute for Mathematics & Education (from 2009 to 2013). Since 2016 she is the associate head for the Postdoctoral Program in Mathematics.

Recognition Lega became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2004. In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Selected publications Coullet, P.; Gil, L.; Lega, J. (April 1989), "Defect-mediated turbulence", Physical Review Letters, 62 (14): 1619–1622, Bibcode:1989PhRvL..62.1619C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.62.1619, PMID 10039721 Coullet, P.; Lega, J.; Houchmanzadeh, B.; Lajzerowicz, J. (September 1990), "Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems", Physical Review Letters, 65 (11): 1352–1355, Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65.1352C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.65.1352, PMID 10042242 Ciliberto, S.; Coullet, P.; Lega, J.; Pampaloni, E.; Perez-Garcia, C. (November 1990), "Defects in roll-hexagon competition" (PDF), Physical Review Letters, 65 (19): 2370–2373, Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65.2370C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.65.2370, hdl:10171/2241, PMID 10042531 Lega, J.; Moloney, J. V.; Newell, A. C. (November 1994), "Swift-Hohenberg Equation for Lasers", Physical Review Letters, 73 (22): 2978–2981, Bibcode:1994PhRvL..73.2978L, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.73.2978, hdl:10468/4664, PMID 10057251 Lega, J.; Passot, T. (March 2003), "Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies: A model", Physical Review E, 67 (3) 031906, Bibcode:2003PhRvE..67c1906L, doi:10.1103/physreve.67.031906, PMID 12689100

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Joceline Lega

In research: Joceline Lega appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
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