[CCoE Notice] Professor Martin Gruebele's Center for Public History Lecture Series (Public lecture) - 4/26/18 @ 6PM in 100 SEC

[Grayson, Audrey A]

The Long-term Prospects of Science

Professor Martin Gruebele
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

6:00-7:00pm April 26th, 2018 (Thursday)
Free and open to the public

Refreshment will be served
Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) Building, Room 100
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas



Abstract: When Einstein's paper on general relativity came out in 1907, who would have thought the equation would be programmed into our cell phones 100 years later so they can accurately guide us to our dinner restaurant?  When Berzelius discovered the new element silicon in 1823, who would have thought it was critical to the chips in the same cell phones? When Ivanovsky in 1892 discovered the first virus that infected tobacco plants, who would have thought in 2006 the FDA would approve a vaccine against a human cancer. And when Picasso painted Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, who would have thought it would sell for $100+ million 85 years later? Scientific discovery, like art, often takes time to show its full value. The strange things we find out about nature, whether it is the  14+ billion year age of the universe, the odd little ways in which fish go about swimming around, or the fact that fat, protein and genes absorb infrared light from a toaster oven in slightly different ways, could all lead to the next cure or billion dollar industry, but not likely in just a couple of years. Patience has great rewards.




Bio: Professor Gruebele is a James R. Eiszner Endowed Chair in Chemistry and the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests focus on complex chemical systems, biophysics, and condensed matter science.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also competes in triathlon in his spare time.

Please contact Dr. Margaret Cheung mscheung at uh.edu<mailto:mscheung at uh.edu> for more information.


--

Margaret S. Cheung, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics

Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Computer Science

University of Houston

http://www.phys.uh.edu/~mscheung<http://www.phys.uh.edu/%7Emscheung>

(O) 713-743-8358; (F) 713-743-3589

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Senior Scientist, Outreach Director

Center for Theoretical Biological Physics

Rice University

http://ctbp.rice.edu

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Associate Editor

Reviews of Modern Physics

https://journals.aps.org/rmp/

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

*******

To unsubscribe, click here<&*TICKET_URL%28TESTLIST,SIGNOFF%29;>.

*******
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://Bug.EGR.UH.EDU/pipermail/engi-dist/attachments/20180411/7de22a2d/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Poster.MG.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 456762 bytes
Desc: Poster.MG.pdf
Url : http://Bug.EGR.UH.EDU/pipermail/engi-dist/attachments/20180411/7de22a2d/attachment-0001.pdf