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SUMMARY:Mechanics meets biology - Dr Francis Woodhouse
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DESCRIPTION:Unlike an ordinary gas\, biological systems are never in equil
 ibrium: cells constantly use chemical energy to grow and move\, forming a 
 clear arrow of time. The recent creation of artificial versions of these 
 ‘active’ systems raises the tantalising prospect of soft robotic syste
 ms fuelled by as simple a source as oxygen. After a tour through the mathe
 matics of elastic networks\, marrying linear algebra\, graph theory and dy
 namics and invoking plenty of tenuous Trinity connections\, we will see ho
 w endowing such a network with biologically-inspired activity can create i
 ntricate self-actuating mechanisms.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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