TITLE: “Chemical reactions and condensates”
ABSTRACT: In the past decade, condensates have been implicated as a mechanism of organization in biological systems. In addition to the potentially biologically relevant aspects of this, it has also encouraged physicists to revisit some aspects of the classic theories of phase separation, but now with inclusion of elements that more closely mimic elements of biological reality. In this talk, I shall present an example of such, where I will show how simple models of phase separating liquids with the inclusion of non-equilibrium chemical reactions can lead to novel behaviors.
