A physicist's adventures in virology

PIRSA ID: 20110068
Event Type: Public Lecture
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Speaker(s):
  • Catherine Beauchemin, RIKEN
November 4, 2020 at 7:00 PM

In her live Perimeter Public Lecture webcast on November 4, 2020, physicist Catherine Beauchemin used contemporary examples from COVID-19 and influenza to explain eroding public trust in health research – and why a dose of physics may be just the prescription we need. Beauchemin is a Professor of Physics at Ryerson University and a Deputy Program Director in the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program in Japan.