Tinkering Soft Matter, and Microwaving Grapes with Hamza Khattak

15/02/2025 1h 46min Temporada 7 Episodio 94

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Join the Hyperthesis team as we welcome Dr. Hamza Khattak as our guest. To start, we discuss a paper which heavily cites work done by Dr. Khattak with his work on grapes in a microwave. We delve a bit into his past research, which made headlines and was featured in a variety of science communication media. We then explore the diverse work that Dr. Khattak does as a research associate at MacMaster University. His research includes soft matter systems, thin films, microdroplets, and generally poking things in new ways and trying to explain what happens. We end with a story about the history of fluid mechanics, exploring how intuitive ideas are actually quite complex. See the Veritasium video featuring our guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0IMissed an episode? Find us on Spotify Podcast! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/hyperthesisQuestion, comments, concerns? Interested in being a guest on our show? Send us an email: [email protected] us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/thehyperthesisCheck out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@hyperthesispodcast