Speaker: Steve Granick, Professor,University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Time: 10:00 a.m., November 13, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Room CB101

Abstract:

A fundamental challenge of modern physical science is to form structure that is not frozen in place but instead recon-figures 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 phenomenain ways that surprise.

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 Prizeof 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 lllinois at Urbana-Cham-paign, he served as Director of the lBS Center for Soft andLiving Matter, which is the Korean version of a Max-Planck Institute. He joined the University of Massachusetts in 2023.

Source: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering