On TUES, OCT 28, 2014, from 2-4 PM EDT, Dr. William Roach, Chief, Quantum and Non-Equilibrium Processes Division, will host a Biophysics Seminar at The BRICC with speaker Professor Anirban Bandyopadhyay entitled, “Programmable Matter: Nanowire jelly that evolves its structure to memorize and process complex biological rhythms.” Bandyopadhyay is from the Surface Characterization Group, Nano Characterization Unit, Advanced Key Technologies Division, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , Institute of Medical and Engineering Science. Professor Bandyopadhyay was funded by AOARD (2010-2013) to study biological information processing in single microtubules. For the past year, he has been on sabbatical at MIT, where his work firmly ties slower, classical scale neural oscillations to the faster atomic scale quantum world of GHz and THz. In identifying the resonance chain that connects atomic to organismic, his lab has also used those observations to drive self-assembly of tuneable nano-dendrimers into nanowires and bundles of nanowires. This brain jelly is then able to record and play back complex biological rhythms. Besides moving neuroscience beyond Hodgkin-Huxleys classical view of the neuron as a simple ionic cable, the resonance chain approach has created a new, non-Turing type of computational architecture, and opens the way for truly programmable matter. In this video, Deepak Chopra interviews Anirban Bandyopadhyay on his program One World. #AnirbanBandyopadhyay #nano
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:58:52 +0000
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