Symposium 2025

Chirality, or broken mirror symmetry, is a fundamental property recently explored in new ways, including chiral fluctuations in biological systems, chiroptical amplification, chirality induced spin selectivity, and interactions with chiral fields/optical vortices. These advances suggest that external fields (like light, electric, and magnetic fields) can control material properties and influence fields from material science to the origin of life.

Despite its importance, a unified theory and common "scale" for comparing chirality across different temporal and spatial dimensions are lacking. To address this, a symposium will unite researchers from medicine, chemistry, physics, and mathematics under the theme of "dynamic chirality" to explore how chiral structures are induced, transformed, and propagated. The goal is to establish a new scientific foundation for "chiral materials science" and pioneer new design principles for functional chiral materials.

Reiko Oda Symposium Head, Project Coordinator

Wijak Yospanya Symposium and Project Manager

Eric Merlet Local Organizer

Yann Ferrand Local Organizer

Yoko Goto Secretary

Jun Harada Secretary

• CNRS International Research Project “Chiral Field-Matter Interaction (ChiFiMi)”

• University of Bordeaux Program UB LIA/ UB LI2A “Chiral Field-Matter Interaction (ChiFiMi)”

• JSPS Core-to-Core Program “Unexplored Scientific Research on Chiral Field- Matter Interaction (ChiFxM)”

• CNRS Federation of Research “Chirality in Nouvelle Aquitaine (Ki-NOA)”

• Grand Program of Research (GPR) “LIGHT”

Marco Bertuolo, Pamela De La Fuente, Akshaya Kunnummal, Hayaki Shimizu, Amrutha Manoj Lena, Sarah Nassari, Dario Bassani, Emilie Pouget, Sylvain Nlate

European Institute of Chemistry and Biology (IECB), Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nano-objects (CBMN), Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University