Making Living Matter from the bottom up

Higgs Centre colloquium

Making Living Matter from the bottom up

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 4th December 2015
  • Speaker: (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Goettingen)
  • Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305,

Event details

Abstract

There are many ways to study life, and one that is particularly appealing to physicists is regarding it as self-organised active soft matter that is away from equilibrium 'just the right way'. In this Colloquium, I will discuss this notion, and provide a number of examples of how we can begin to put together simple systems - from basic ingredients that we fully understand - that would exhibit the kind of active behaviour we find in living systems.