I forgot the seminar will be at Pfizer….
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Subject: [Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Prof. England seminar
Hi everyone,
On Tuesday (March 27th), at 1:30 pm we will have a special seminar from Prof. Jeremy
England from MIT. See abstract and title below. If someone is also interested on having
a one to one meeting with him, I may be able to set a one to one meeting with him during
the morning. Just let me know.
Best
David
"No Turning Back: The Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics of becoming (and
remaining) Life-Like"
There are certain, specific behaviors that are particularly distinctive of life. For
example, living things self-replicate, harvest energy from challenging environmental
sources, and translate experiences of past and present into actions that accurately
anticipate the predictable parts of their future. What all of these activities have in
common from a chemical physics standpoint is that they generally take place in the
far-from-equilibrium regime, where dissipation drives strong dynamical irreversibility.
We have therefore sought to understand the emergence and persistence of life-like
phenomena in fluctuating, classical many-body systems by proving and applying general
results in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. How fast are self-replicators allowed to
grow, and when do they spontaneously emerge? How much energy must a chemical network
harvest to sustain itself away from equilibrium, and when can it learn to do so through
self-organization? We report recent progress in tackling these questions and others using
theory and simulation.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Jeremy England
<jengland@mit.edu<mailto:jengland@mit.edu>> wrote: