Meetings & Events
PHYSICS OF EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR 2013
PHYSICS OF EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR 2013
24-26 June 2013, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK
Organised by IOP Biological Physics Group
Sponsored by European Science Foundation, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM)/US National Science Foundation (NSF) and Society of Biology
The aim of this multidisciplinary meeting is to bring together physicists and biologists to discuss experimental and theoretical approaches for studying behaviour in living systems. Speakers will combine an introduction aimed at a broad audience with results from their latest research. Topics covered will include search strategies and foraging, simplicity underlying complexity, sensing and migration, and decision-making. These topics span multiple scales from single cells and individuals to collectives.
Biological systems are often conceptualised as networks of interacting genes and proteins. Nevertheless, a simple analysis of the fundamental genetic programs is often not sufficient to explain higher-level functions such as multi-cellular aggregation, tissue organization, embryonic development, and collective behaviour of groups of individuals. Furthermore, various aspects of these processes are often emergent properties of the underlying complex system, irrespectively to its microscopic details. In the past few years, larger scale experiments allowed the construction of statistical mechanics models of biological systems directly from real data, producing immense progress in our understanding of emergent collective behaviour in biology.
Confirmed speakers:
Dante Chialvo, CONICET (National Research Council), Argentina.
Lucilla de Arcangelis, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
Ben Fabry, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Nigel Franks, University of Bristol, UK.
Raymond E Goldstein, University of Cambridge, UK.
Thomas Gregor, Princeton University, USA.
Patrick M Hogan, University of Sheffield, UK.
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College London, UK.
Jens Krause, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany.
Stefano Mancuso, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Alfonso Martinez Arias, University of Cambridge, UK.
David Peak, Utah State University, USA Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Massimo Vergassola, Institut Pasteur, France.
Tamás Vicsek, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös University, Hungary.
Organising committee:
Robert Endres, Imperial College London, UK.
Giovanni Sena, Imperial College London, UK.
Abstract submission deadline: 02 May 2013
Early registration deadline: 22 May 2013
Registration deadline: 17 June 2013
Registration and abstract submission: http://bio13.iopconfs.org/
General information: Joanne Hemstock joanne.hemstock@iop.org
