Speaker: Steve Granick
Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA (starting 2023)
Director, IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter,South Korea (2014-2022)
Professor, University of Illinois, USA (1985-2014)

Time: 14:00-15:00 pm, November 4 (Friday), 2022, GMT+8

Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 984 9859 6396 Passcode: 678889

Biography:

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 has been published in the most selective journals in his field(Science,Nature and Nature family, PNAS, and more).

Abstract:

How will you decide what life choices to make after graduation-startup,government work,poet,or what? As a professor who worked at the University of lllinois for 30 years and at a blue-sky research institute for the past 8 years,I have known many PKU graduates. This talk will tell the stories of three of my Ph.D. students none of whom knew what they wanted from life when they began graduate school. All are now successful professors at major U.S.universities.They discovered that--from engineering to biology and chemistry -- a fundamental challenge of modern science,amenable to deep imaging,is to form structure that is not frozen in place but instead reconfigures internally driven by energy throughput and adapts to its environment robustly. A picture emerges in which talented students,studying to do good science sincerely and honorably, discovered that pursuing one's curiosity is-when combined with hard work and good luck--an effective path to achieve success in this world.

Source: College of Engineering