时间：2025年3月13日下午16:00-17:30

Time: 16:00-17:30, Thursday, March 13, 2025

主持人：西湖大学理学院PI窦文杰

Host: Dr. Wenjie Dou, PI of School of Science, Westlake University

地点：云谷校区E10-215

Venue: E10-215, Yungu Campus, Westlake University

语言：中文

Lecture Language: Chinese

Prof. Jiushu Shao 邵久书

College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University

主讲人/Speaker:

Jiushu Shao is a professor at the College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in theoretical chemistry from the University of Ulm, Germany, in 1992. He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Siegen and the University of Augsburg. He was a visiting research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2001 to 2006, he worked as a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Shao's research interests focus on quantum dynamics of dissipative systems, semiclassical approximations, control of quantum states, and chiral symmetry breaking. He has received awards such as the Outstanding Youth Investigator Award from the NSFC, etc.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

Why do chiral molecules exist? Why do chiral biological molecules predominantly exist as one enantiomer? These and other related questions will be addressed, although the satisfactory answers remain elusive.

As an introduction, the new class of problems in chemistry elaborated in Whitesides’ Reinventing Chemistry will be outlined. Then, chiral configurations as quantum states, the Hund puzzle, coherent control of chirality, and emergence of chiral configuration as the quantum-to-classical transition will briefly be clarified. Symmetry breaking in biological morphology and the chiral blastomere manipulation of snails (microcosmetology) will be illustrated. The Kondepudi’s experiment, Soai reaction, and Viedma ripening will be recapitulated and the advances in theoretical understanding will be discussed.

讲座联系人/Contact:

School of Science, Yanyan Chen, Email: chenyanyan@westlake.edu.cn