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SUMMARY:Two puzzles in the statistical physics of life (and a small step t
 owards studying one of them) - Wilson Poon (School of Physics &amp\; Astro
 nomy\, The University of Edinburgh)
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CONTACT:Sarah Loos
DESCRIPTION:While I was participating in the “New Statistical Physics of
  Life’ programme at the INI last year\, I thought a lot about two puzzle
 s in the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of living systems. In this 
 seminar\, my main purpose is to present these puzzles and explain why I th
 ink they are worthwhile challenges for statistical mechanicians. The first
  puzzle is about exactly how non-equilibrium a system has to be in order f
 or it to be alive. The second puzzle is why biology ubiquitously couples d
 issipative self disassembly to (often near-equilibrium) self assembly. For
  the second puzzle\, I’ll present some preliminary results from a collab
 orative study with EPFL colleagues using a very simple model system. 
LOCATION:Center for Mathematical Sciences\, Lecture room MR4
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