Talks
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024
A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian
New micro-machines, new materials
Mon 12 March 2018
Department of Chemistry
Lecture by Professor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
The fifth talk in a series of lectures organised by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the Lent Term 2018.
Abstract: Radically novel materials change shape by 100s% following temperature or illumination changes. Such sophisticated response suggests different ideas for deploying such materials from in conventional mechanics and devices.
We describe the materials and new mechanics paradigms to exploit their novelty: Local material shape changes can be arranged so that intrinsic curvature is induced into flat spaces. I will employ many demonstrations, and re-examine the map-maker’s problem of resolving planes with curved space.
Cost: Free
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