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Professor Taekjip Ha delivers public lecture in Aspen, view online

5/14/2013 Siv Schwink

Physics Professors Yann Chemla, Taekjip Ha, and Paul Selvin presented their latest research to more than one hundred researchers from the US, Europe, and Japan, at the biennial Winter Aspen Physics Conference on Single Molecule Biophysics. Ha had the honor of giving this year’s public lecture at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen; an annual tradition, it is attended by Aspenites as well as biophysicists. The lecture, entitled "Probing Nature's Nano-Machines with Light," was recorded and can be viewed online at the grassroots TV Aspen.

Written by Siv Schwink

Physics Professors Yann Chemla, Taekjip Ha, and Paul Selvin presented their latest research to more than one hundred researchers from the US, Europe, and Japan, at the biennial Winter Aspen Physics Conference on Single Molecule Biophysics.

Ha had the honor of giving this year’s public lecture at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen; an annual tradition, it is attended by Aspenites as well as biophysicists. The lecture, entitled "Probing Nature's Nano-Machines with Light," was recorded and can be viewed online at the grassroots TV Aspen.
 
The conference was organized by Steven Block of Stanford University and Thomas Perkins of JILA and University of Colorado. Previous public lectures of the Single Molecule Biophysics Winter Conference were given by Steven Chu (2003), Yale Goldman (2005), W.E. Moerner (2007), James Spudich (2009) and Xiaowei Zhuang (2011).

 

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Ph. D. is a science writer and an educator. She teaches college and high school physics and mathematics courses, and her writing has been published in popular science outlets such as WIRED, Scientific American, Physics World, and New Scientist. She earned a Ph. D. in Physics from UIUC in 2019 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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This story was published May 14, 2013.