201815MAR

CORE's Prof. Seidel-Morgenstern invited as plenary speaker at the first European Asymmetry Symposium

CORE's Prof. Seidel-Morgenstern was invited as a plenary speaker at the first European Asymmetry Symposium where he spoke about the Process to Separate Enantiomers http://feas.fr/abstracts/#andreas-seidel-morgenstern which was attended by over 200 delegates.

Studies on complex systems have emerged during the recent decades. The origin, evolution, and expression of asymmetry became an essential part of numerous complex systems. The journal Nature stated in 2012 that, in modern sciences, asymmetry-related phenomena belong to the five challenges as hard as finding the Higgs boson and just as potentially transformative. Asymmetry-related phenomena are integral part in new developments in arts, language, and social sciences. They become of increasing importance in economy and likewise natural scientific disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry individually contribute along with biology to the advanced understanding of microscopic and macroscopic asymmetries. One fundamental challenge is to understand – and predict – the structures that emerge from spontaneous symmetry-breaking in natural systems. The objective of the First European Asymmetry Symposium (FEAS) is to foster high-level, innovative, trans-disciplinary research and training activities that will turn the Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) into a high profile international research university. Complex asymmetric systems such as the origin and evolution of asymmetric life, asymmetric amplification, asymmetric structures, asymmetry in economy and art – to name a few – are far from being understood and expressed and we expect that fundamental answers can be found by a trans-disciplinary approach only that systematically complements knowledge of traditional individual disciplines. The FEAS is the first European Symposium of its kind. It is intended to attract leading international scientists and researchers and to advance our trans-disciplinary understanding in asymmetry-related phenomena.

The full programme can be found at http://feas.fr/

See article in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03254-w


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