FEATURED FACULTY
I develop scientific principles for understanding complex structure and dynamics in multi-body interacting systems based on experiments involving dispersions of microscale to nanoscale particles, droplets, and polymers. Thermal motion of probe particles in polymer solutions and other complex fluids can be used to measure frequency dependent mechanical response through passive microrheology (Mason & Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1995; review Squires & Mason, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 2010). Roughness controlled depletion attractions (Zhao & Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett Read more.
Fact: What is the speed of thought?
People have suggested that the “speed of thought” is fantastically high and even comparable to the speed of light, the only fundamental speed limit in the universe. This is not so. In fact, the speed at which neural signals propagate is only about 25m/s, which is about 55mph. You drive faster than that on the 405! At least, at times. Physicists Hodgkin and Huxley developed the basic theory of neural signal propagation in the 1950’s and tested it with experiments of the nerves of a squid Read more.
Research
Events
News
06/19/2012 - Center for Biological Physics announced on UCLA Newsroom. read more.
04/20/2012 - UCLA Center for Biological Physics is launched. read more.
03/29/2012 - John Miao and colleagues are able to peer deep within the world’s tiniest structures to create ima... read more.
CCBot/2.0 1.0467131137848