BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Greg Huber (University of California San Francisco and Jagiellonia n University\, Kraków) DTSTART:20261113T163000Z DTEND:20261113T180000Z DTSTAMP:20261113T121804Z UID:CompMath/41 DESCRIPTION:Title: Riddles of the sphinx: Chirality\, entropy\, and emergence\nby Greg Huber (University of California San Francisco and Jagiellonian University\ , Kraków) as part of Relatorium seminar\n\nInteractive livestream: https: //utoronto.zoom.us/j/84664475285?pwd=YRVI1H1NhX0mNQJfMf4vekLxVb6ccQ.1\nVie w-only livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@Relatorium\n\nAbstract\nAre th ere emergent laws governing the spatial interactions of chiral building bl ocks? I’ll explore these questions in a 2D space using the ``sphinx’ ’ tile — a simple\, non-symmetrical shape which has some unique and mi nimal properties. It comes in left-handed and right-handed forms (enantiom ers)\, and I’ll explore this toy model under spatial forcing\, resulting in various types of order\, including crystalline\, quasicrystalline\, mi xed\, and fully disordered states. For large systems\, the numbers of conf igurations become extremely large -- so large that new methods are needed to study them. These statistical-mechanics explorations into chirality rai se a number of new mysteries\, which will be discussed.\n\nSpeaker's bio: Prof Huber is a biophysicist with a background in statistical mechanics\, dynamical systems\, and soft-matter physics working in the Department of P harmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California San Francisco. Bef ore joining UCSF\, he was the head of Theory at the Biohub SF\, a research institute created by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative\, and before that he was associate director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KIT P) in Santa Barbara. He has researched and taught at the Niels Bohr Instit ute\, University of Arizona\, University of Chicago\, University of Connec ticut\, University of Massachusetts\, the University of California Berkele y\, and the University of California Santa Barbara\, and he has worked on a range of problems from branching networks to how coffee drops dry. His w ork seeks to deepen our knowledge and control of biological processes\, st ructure and function through physical and mathematical theory. In 2026\, h e received the Ulam Prize\, given by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at L os Alamos National Laboratory.\n\nModerator's bio: Ted Theodosopoulos is a mathematician who\, after working for years in academia and industry\, tr ansitioned to teaching at the pre-college level seventeen years ago\, the last nine at Nueva\, where he teaches math and economics. Ted’s research background is in the area of interacting stochastic systems\, with partic ular applications in biology and economics.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/CompMath/41/ URL:https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84664475285?pwd=YRVI1H1NhX0mNQJfMf4vekLxVb6 ccQ.1 URL:https://www.youtube.com/@Relatorium END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR