ITU International Science and Engineering Summit (SES) 2026

Session

Biophysics Session

6 May 2026, 11:40

Turgut Özal School of Foreign Languages Congress and Student Social Center, A 174 (İTÜ Ayazağa Campus)

Conveners

Biophysics Session: What Einstein did not Know: Anomalous Diffusion, from Pilot Balloons to Hydrology

• Prof. Dr. Ralf Metzler

7. What Einstein did not Know: Anomalous Diffusion, from Pilot Balloons to Hydrology

Prof. Dr. Ralf Metzler

06/05/2026, 11:40

Robert Brown reported the jiggling motion of micron-sized pollen granules observed
in his microscope in 1828. Since this first observation of diffusion, experimental
techniques have been advanced massively. Today, for instance, individual molecules
diffusing in living biological cells can be followed at the resolution of few nano-
metres at millisecond intervals. Such measured trajectories...