10/11/2010
Conference by European Academy of Sciences laureate Professor Sherrington
Emeritus Professor David Sherrington of the Physics Department of Oxford University was invited by Sabancı University to present a popular science conference titled “Physics and Complexity” at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum on Monday, November 8th. David Sherrington’s conference was widely followed by scholars and students.
David Sherrington received the 2010 Blaise Pascal Award from the European Academy of Sciences, and gave his first conference after receiving the medal at Sabancı University. David Sherrington explained how simple interactions and internal conflict on an atomic level creates complexities on visible scale. In context, he gave many examples from the formation of glass to the fluctuation of stock markets and the operation of our brain.
The Blaise Pascal Award is one of the most prestigious awards in Europe, and has been initiated in 2003 to honor scientists that make great contributions to their respective fields. The awards ceremony is held in a different city every year, and this year’s ceremony was in Athens. After attending the ceremony in Athens last week, Professor Sherrington was invited to Turkey by Sabancı University.
Professor Sherrington was the center of attention at the cocktail that followed, where he had conversations with many students and posed for photographs.
“Doctoral Grandfather”
The journey from Oxford to the Erdal İnönü Chair
David Sherrington is the “doctoral grandfather” of the current occupant of the Sabancı University Erdal İnönü Chair, Assistant Professor İnanç Adagideli, meaning he is the doctoral advisor of Adagideli’s doctoral advisor.
