Travel Support Request for Institute for Advanced Study Workshop on Physics Approach to Simplifying Complexity in Biology; Hong Kong University, China; December 15-19, 2014.

高等研究院关于简化生物学复杂性的物理方法研讨会的差旅支持请求；

• 批准号: 1420602
• 负责人: Robert Austin
• 金额: $ 3.6万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1420602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; Request; Institute; Advanced

The December 15-19, 2014 Workshop on Physics Approach to Simplifying Complexity in Biology will bring together physical scientists together with biologists to address basic science problems in biology. Phyicists and biologists are working together to further our progress in the development of predictive, quantitative biology and this workshop is essential in this direction. The organizers bring scientists to examine both the origins of living matter and the complexity that has evolved with time. The emergent phenomena of life is hardly predictable from the fundamental laws of physics or the theorems of mathematics. Emergent living organisms form a unique state of complex adaptive matter; this complex adaptability presumably has its roots in natural selection because the adaptation of natural selection gives rise to ever increasing fitness.The organizers will bring together the physics and condensed matter communities in Asia with those in the US and Europe and merge them with biologists and ecologists to form a frontier effort that spans multiple disciplines. The range of subjects will be wide, in the hopes that unifying, quantitative themes can be mapped out. The workshop will cover areas ranging from The Origins of Complexity to The Emergence of Collective Behavior to Instability in Complex Adaptive Matter, which has connections to many ill-understood topics such as the dynamics of protein dis-function, collective conflicts in communities, and the fundamental origins of diseases such as cancer viewed from a deep perspective. The impact will be to find unifying, simple but deep principles which can tie together the bewildering complexity of biology from the unified perspective of physics which has been so successful in the past.

2014年12月15日至19日，关于简化生物学复杂性的物理学方法的研讨会将使物理科学家与生物学家汇总在一起，以解决生物学的基础科学问题。植物学家和生物学家正在共同努力，以进一步发展预测性，定量生物学的发展，而该研讨会在这个方向上至关重要。组织者带科学家来研究生物的起源和随着时间的流逝而发展的复杂性。生命的新现象几乎无法从物理学的基本定律或数学定理中预测。新兴的生物体形成了复杂的适应性物质的独特状态。这种复杂的适应性大概是其自然选择的根源，因为自然选择的适应性会导致不断提高的健身性。组织者将把亚洲的物理和凝结物与美国和欧洲的物理和凝结的物质社区汇集在一起​​，并将其与生物学家和生态学家合并，以形成跨越多个学科的前沿努力。希望可以将统一的定量主题映射到统一的主题。研讨会将涵盖从复杂性到集体行为的出现到复杂自适应物质的不稳定性的领域，该物质与许多不理解的话题之间的联系，例如蛋白质脱节的动态，社区中的集体冲突，以及疾病的基本起源，例如从深刻的角度看待癌症。影响是找到统一，简单但深刻的原则，这些原则可以将生物学的困惑复杂性从过去如此成功的统一的物理学角度联系在一起。