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WEDNESDAY 20 April at 15:30
Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, 1st floor, Leonardo Building

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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Andrey VARLAMOV
Institute of Superconductivity and Innovative Materials, Italian National
Scientific Council

"Physicist in Kitchen"

Abstract
How heat propagates in media, what is the difference between pizza baking
in the traditional wood oven and in the electric one, why tastes of the
boiled meet and the grilled one are so different, how scientifically
calculate cooking time of the soft-boiled duck egg and spaghetti, why
cin-cin with crystal glasses filled by sparkling wine is not accompanied
by nice canorous sound, why vodka usually contains around of 40 % of
alcohol, why professional barman varies the degree of coffee beans
grounding depending on weather, and many other questions of surrounding
gastronomic universe are discussed in this lecture.