Thursday, November 16, 2006

Research group name

I am going to be revamping my professional webpage when I move to Oxford this fall, and that got me thinking about names for my research group (because now I'll want a group web page as part of the professional page).

I came up with a really awesome one: Oxford Chaotic Dynamics (OCD) Group


I'm willing to listen to suggestions, but I would be absolutely shocked if anybody comes up with one that I like better.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You could call yourselves the Random Monkeys, rather than going for an amusing acronym...

Anonymous said...

You could change one word in your original idea to get to OMD, but I don't know what the M should stand for.

Mason said...

In the original, it stands for "Maneuvers." Although I could combine these two suggestions and make it stand for "Monkeys." Alas, I've already used Random Monkeys for something.

One advantage of OCD, besides the very amusing acronym, is that it's actually appropriate---though something with "nonlinear dynamics" would be even more appropriate because I also study non-chaotic dynamics.