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SUMMARY:Alain Goriely (Oxford - UK)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/GEOTOP-A/58/
 ">The geometry and mechanics of chirality: from Maxwell's perversion to Fe
 ynman's obsession</a>\nby Alain Goriely (Oxford - UK) as part of GEOTOP-A 
 seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nMany natural structures such as proteins\, climbing
  vines\, and seashells exhibit a well defined chirality\, some are left-ha
 nded\, some are right-handed\, some are both. The ultimate origin of chira
 lity is one of Nature's great mystery. However\, geometry and mechanics pl
 ay a fundamental role in assigning chirality and carrying this information
  from microscopic to macroscopic scales. In this talk\, I will discuss the
  general problem of chirality\, chirality measure\, and chirality transfer
 \, trace its history\, and use examples from chemistry and biology to obta
 in general principles with some surprising twists.\n
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