Dr. Gilbert A. Hawkins
Associate Research Director, Kodak Research Lab
April 26, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall
Host: John Huggins
As fields of science progress, they occasionally mature to points of some "closure," where there is a perception among many workers that a unified framework of understanding has been developed, has been tested from many points of view, has led to important ramifications to society, and is communicable to a broad audience with some elegance.
The object of this talk is to showcase a technology, which I call "Digital Water," that has achieved such closure and which now profoundly influences our world. This technology builds on selected works of Lord Rayleigh and what he chose and did not choose to pursue in fluidics, and it elucidates regularities which occur in nature and influence "complex adaptive systems" (in the words of Gell-Mann). This talk will hopefully inspire some to look at one subfield of microfluidics as a body of knowledge and practice in a different way than they might have seen it a few years back.
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