Café Scientifique explores the intersection of physics and biology

“Should physicists be getting their heads wet with biology?”  is the topic of discussion for the next Café Scientifique, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 at the Ohm Lounge, 314 S. Franklin St., Syracuse. Theoretical physicist Jennifer Schwarz will lead the discussion. The event is open to the public. The Door fee is $5, which is waived for students. 

Schwarz is a theoretical physicist who is interested in such questions as:

• How do systems jam? (In other words, how do those darn coffee beans get stuck in their hopper?); 
• How does a cell crawl and/or change its shape to heal a wound or inflict damage if it's a cancerous beast?; and
• How does "order", a.k.a. life, emerge from randomly interacting units---a question IDers refuse to even ask.

Café Scientifique is a place where scientists and scientifically interested non-scientists can come together in an informal setting to discuss interesting science—old and new—and its implications in a friendly, cordial way. The series is sponsored in part by the departments of chemistry, Earth sciences, mathematics, physics, psychology, and the Soling Program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the LC Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Further information is available on the Web at http://physics.syr.edu/cafescientifique/.