报告题目：What is Life?

报告人：Prof. Antti Niemi (Uppsala University, Sweden & CNRS, France)

时间：2015年3月12日（星期三）15:00 -- 16:00

地点：理科楼数学系A304

摘要：Traditionally, the goal of physics has been largely seen as reducing our description of nature to the simplest possible. However, today physics is increasingly helping us to understand how the complexity of our world is built up. In particular, the question "what is life" can now be largely formulated as the problem to describe the physical properties and interactions of proteins. Moreover, since diverse neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and many forms

of cancer are presumed to have their origin in misfolded proteins, the understanding of life at the level of proteins could have an enormous impact on biology, pharmacy and health sciences and provide huge benefits to the society by paving ways to cure many tormenting diseases. In this talk we describe how the concepts and models of physics can be applied and developed to describe life, to the extent that it relates to the properties of proteins in living cells.

报告人简介：Porf. Niemi got his PhD in Particle Physics in MIT (USA).

He is the Chaired Professor of Theoretical Physics in Uppsala University (Sweden)

and the directeur de recherche CNRS-UMR7350 (France).

He is a "Qian Ren" distinguished professor (part-time) in Beijing Institute of Technology (China) since 2012.

He was a "Chang Jiang" professor in Chern Institute of Mathematics China (2003-2009).

联系人：林润亮