平特五不中

A free public lecture at 7pm sharp on Tuesday, January 21st at the Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 rue University) by PhD student Lili Zeng from 平特五不中.

Biology is the science dedicated to the study of the phenomenon of life. What can physicists, who typically study non-living matter, bring to the table when it comes to biology? A lot, actually. Since the publishing of Erwin Schr枚dinger's seminal work "What is life?" in 1944, in which he鈥攖he founding father of quantum physics鈥攑redicted the structure of DNA almost a decade before it was discovered, physicists have been thinking about all kinds of biological problems, from evolution to bacterial division, and making sense of them using physical concepts such as energy conservation and entropy. But the most fundamental, and challenging, of them all is the question of how and why life arose in the first place. Can physicists shed light on this question?