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SUMMARY:Physics of the Everyday - Professor Dame Athene Donald
DTSTART:20140122T210000Z
DTEND:20140122T220000Z
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CONTACT:Graham Edgecombe
DESCRIPTION:People associate physics either with the ultrasmall\, sub-atom
 ic particles so much in the news\, or with the wonders of outer space and 
 its huge distances. I prefer to work with the human-sized world and study 
 the sorts of things that are very familiar to you: things that you eat\, w
 ear\, utilise or that make up your own bodies and the organisms around us.
  This encompasses my field of soft matter physics and it mainly deals with
  aggregates of molecules in one way or another.\n\nI will consider how thi
 s sort of matter can be observed in detail and what it is that makes it sp
 ecial\, looking at examples from plants to paint. I will also consider wha
 t studying crash helmets may tell us about brain disease\, by looking at g
 eneralities of the way long molecules behave when they interact. Finally I
  will try to describe why I think science is such a creative discipline an
 d why research is so exciting.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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