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Webinar 'From droplets to pandemic'

What is the role of droplets and aerosols in spreading the corona virus? In a webinar on June 4, experts will discuss the transfer mechanisms and remedies. For this, a special webinar is organised by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), from 19:00 to 20:00. The moderator is Professor Detlef Lohse, Physics of Fluids expert at the University of Twente.

Speakers during this session are:

* Daniël Bonn, Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Lydia Bourouiba, The Fluid Dynamics and Disease Transmission Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

* Christian Kähler, Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Aerodynamik, Bundeswehr Universität, Munich, Germany

* Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation & Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany.

The moderator of this session, Professor Detlef Lohse of the University of Twente, recently published an article in the German Physik Journal (press release), in which he refers to the work of Lydia Bourouiba.

The session (in English) is live on KNAW's YouTube channel

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