[GFD Event] Promoting Revolutionary Science

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 9:00~10:00 (JST)
Online: Zoom
Language: English
Speaker: Gerald Pollack

Abstract

Revolutionary science has the capacity to change the world. Recently, however, scientific advances have been mainly incremental, not revolutionary. The reason may reside in the very organizations that fund science, which inadvertently tend to suppress revolutionary science in favor of incremental science. To deal with that problem, an organization specifically designed to promote revolutionary science has come into being. The Institute for Venture Science (IVS) will be described, emphasizing the method by which it promotes scientific revolutions.

Speaker Bio

Gerald Pollack is professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, WATER, convener of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, and Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science. He is also a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. His interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 2001 book, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life, and his newest book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, won distinguished awards from the Society for Technical Communication.