地球的数学公开讲座-生命形式的多样性

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地球的数学-

MPE2013西蒙斯公开讲座L.马哈德
在生长和形式：
数学，物理和生物

MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture by L. Mahadevan
On Growth and Form:
Mathematics, Physics and Biology
Abstract:
The diversity of living forms led Darwin to state that it is "enough to drive the sanest man mad". How can we describe this variety? How can we understand the origin and evolution of these "endless forms most beautiful?" And how do these forms link to function and physiology at the organismic level and beyond? Mathematics, and geometry in particular, provides a natural language to express these questions and answer them. Motivated by biological observations on different scales from molecules to organisms to swarms, I will show how a combination of quantitative experiments, physical analogies, mathematical theories and computational models allow us to begin to unravel the mechanistic basis for aspects of morphogenesis and thence towards physiology, pathophysiology and biomimetics.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE:生命形式的多样性，导致达尔文说明它是“足以驱动的最疯的人疯了”。我们怎样才能形容这个品种？我们应当如何理解这些“无尽的形式最美丽的起源和演化的？”这些形式链接到生理功能和机体的水平和超越怎么办？数学和几何形状特别，提供了一种自然的语言来表达这些问题，并回答他们。出于不同尺度上从分子到生物群的生物学特性观察，我将展示如何结合定量实验，物理类比，数学理论和计算模型，让我们开始解开形态方面，并从那里对生理机理的基础，病理生理学和仿生。
Biography:
L. Mahadevan received his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his PhD at Stanford University. He started his independent career on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996-2000), following which he was the Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a Fellow of Trinity at the University of Cambridge (2001-2003). Since 2003, he has been at Harvard University, where he is currently England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Physics and of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Since 2004, he has also been a visiting Professor at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University.

His research interests revolve around understanding the physical and biological organization of matter and how it is shaped, moves and flows, particularly at the scale of the everyday world, and is thus amenable to immediate experience. He uses both quantitative experiments and theoretical studies to probe questions over a range of scales from the mechanics of graphene to the tectonics of plates, and from the dynamics of cytoskeletal assemblies to the neurobiology of movement. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) and a MacArthur Fellowship (2009-14).