You are cordially invited to the 32nd annual

Dr. Shih-I Pai Distinguished Lecture

with

Bill Bialek

Princeton University

Tuesday, November 17, 2026
3:30 p.m.
John S. Toll Physics Building, Room 1410

Paid parking is available on the roof of Regents Drive Garage. Please visit a pay station before you leave the garage roof. Additionally, the free #104 ShuttleUM bus runs between the College Park Metro Station and Regents Drive at about 15-minute intervals.

Questions? Contact the Department of Physics at physchair-rsvp@umd.edu or 301-405-5944.

About the Speaker

William Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, and a member of the multidisciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research has addressed a wide range of theoretical physics problems motivated by the phenomena of life, across scales ranging from single molecules to flocks of birds. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics from the American Physical Society and the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. (Credit: Princeton University)

About the Lecture

Dr. Shih-I Pai (1913-1996) served on the faculty of the University of Maryland at College Park beginning in 1949 and retired with Emeritus status in 1983. He was the recipient of a Centennial Medal from the A. James Clark School of Engineering and was a founding member of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics (now the Institute for Physical Science and Technology). Dr. Pai authored 14 books and 130 articles in the field of aerodynamics, fluid dynamics and viscous flow, for which he received international recognition. The lecture series honors Dr. Pai's many accomplishments and contributions to UMCP and is supported by donations to the University of Maryland Foundation.