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PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH - Wilson Poon (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Complexity and decay — towards a science of self disassembly
Soft matter physics has been obsessed with 'self assembly' for some time - the ability of Brownian or, more recently, 'active matter' systems to generate (sometimes useful !) patterns 'on their own accord'. The original impulse for this was biological, the term 'self assembly' being first used in a famous 1962 paper on viral capsid construction by Caspar and Klug. Biological cells are clearly self assembled. However, they also have the amazing ability to 'self disassemble' - a high-evolved energy-expending process called apoptosis (or programmed cell death). Strangely, the physics of disassembly has never yet been thought about, either theoretically or experimentally. In this talk, I will seek to imagine what such a physics may look like, and explain why I think it is important to do so.
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)
