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: Professor Ramin Golestanian (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Goettingen)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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.
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..