牛顿和他的苹果——十二月苹果树月谈快讯
2014-12-24
文章来源: 青年学术小组

  12月5号下午三点五十九分,苹果树月谈如期而至,伴随着于渌院士对该期嘉宾的介绍,我们迎来了一位老所友——林磊教授,他通过讲述伟大科学家艾萨克•牛顿的精彩故事,引发我们对科学与人之间更深层次的思考。报告在M234大报告厅进行,吸引了众多科研人员参加。
  林磊老师思路清晰,娓娓道来,让大家对牛顿有了更加具体的认识,对牛顿的世界有了更加立体的刻画。牛顿作为英国伟大的物理学家、数学家和天文学家,提出过万有引力定律、力学三大定律、白光由各色光组成的理论,并开创了微积分学等等。平时,我们只是享受着牛顿带给世界的科学成果,但是我们从未对牛顿的生平事迹有过具体的了解,林磊老师的讲座则对牛顿传奇的一生“一叶知秋”般从小故事着手让我们慢慢了解了牛顿这位大科学家。在报告中我们领会了科学与宗教、性取向与创造性等之间的微妙关系,这位科学巨人的生活点滴以及鲜为人知的一面展现在我们面前。
  牛顿对科学贡献卓越,他是近代科学的鼻祖,开拓了向科学进军的新纪元。也许正是基于牛顿与苹果之间的关系,让这期苹果树论坛真正找到了根,找到了物理的真正意义。

报告人简介:
  Lui LAM (林磊), humanist and physicist, is professor at San Jose State University, California, and guest professor at IoP, CAS. He got his MS from University of British Columbia; PhD, Columbia University. He did his PhD thesis at Bell Labs with Philip Platzman, student of Nobelist Richard Feynman. In 1978-1983, he worked at IoP, Beijing where he published the first PRL paper ever from mainland China (1979); invented Bowlics (1982), one of three existing types of liquid crystals in the world; and pioneered the study of propagating solitons in liquid crystals (PRL, 1982). He further invented Active Walks (1992), a new paradigm in complex systems; and two new disciplines: Histophysics (2002) and Scimat (Science Matters, 2007/2008). He has published 15 books and over 180 scientific papers. He is the founder of the International Liquid Crystal Society (1990). His current research is in scimat, complex systems, and philosophy. Website: www.sjsu.edu/people/lui.lam/scimat. Email: lui2002lam@yahoo.com.

  苹果树月谈,一个每月偷得半日闲的约会,一个所有参与者的舞台,或许,还是一棵“牛顿”靠着的“苹果树”。

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