时间：2024年11月28日（周四）14:00~15:30

Time：2:00~3:30 PM, Thursday, Nov.28th, 2024

地点：西湖大学云谷校区E10-201阶梯教室

Venue: E10-201, Yungu Campus

主持人：西湖大学工学院 助理教授张越

Host: Assistant Professor Yue Zhang, School of Engineering

主讲人/Speaker：

Steve Granick

Robert K. Barrett Professor

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Steve Granick is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his other major awards are the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, and Colloid and Surface Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society. His papers have been published in the most selective journals in his field (Science, Nature and Nature family, PNAS, and more). 

After a career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he served as Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, which is the Korean version of a Max-Planck Institute. He joined the University of Massachusetts in 2023.

报告题目/Title:

Puzzles and Research Opportunities in Soft Materials

讲座摘要/Abstract:

A fundamental challenge of modern physical science is to form structure that is not frozen in place but instead reconfigures internally driven by energy throughput and adapts to its environment robustly. With catalytic enzymes, we find problems of mechanobiology. With chemical reactions, we find problems of active matter. With living cells, we unravel how they communicate information. A picture emerges in which simple experiments, performed at single-particle and single-molecule resolution, can dissect macroscopic phenomena in ways that surprise.

讲座联系人/Contact:

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