U.S.-Australia Joint Seminar: Dynamics of Complex Inter- connected Biological Systems / Albany, Western Australia / January 1989.

该奖项将支持亚利桑那大学图森分校托马斯·L·文森特教授和西澳大利亚大学A·I·米斯教授联合举办的研讨会--“复杂相互关联生物系统的动力学”。与会者将于1989年1月在西澳大利亚州的奥尔巴尼举行会议，以确定并开始解决复杂相互关联的生物系统建模中的问题。这次研讨会将汇集博弈论和混沌理论的专家，这两个理论在理解相互关联的系统的演化过程中发挥着越来越重要的作用，试图利用学科间重叠的协同作用。博弈论和混沌理论的最新发展促进了对动力系统的理解；虽然博弈论是理解相互关联的系统的理想方法，但混沌理论正导致对复杂系统的补充理解。生物系统通常既复杂又相互联系，是将这两个学科结合在一起解决生物建模中存在的基本问题的合适场所。西澳大利亚大学是一个活跃的动力系统小组的所在地，此次研讨会还将利用澳大利亚和美国参与者之间业已存在的研究联系。

This award will support a seminar, "Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Biological Systems", organized jointly by Prof. Thomas L. Vincent of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Prof. A.I. Mees of the University of Western Australia. Participants will meet in Albany, Western Australia, in January 1989 to identify and begin to address problems in the modeling of complex interconnected biological systems. This seminar will bring together experts in game theory and chaos theory, both of which are playing an increasingly important role in the understanding of evolutionary processes in interconnected systems, in an attempt to take advantage of the synergy of interdis- ciplinary overlap. Recent developments in both game theory and chaos theory have led to an improved understanding of dynamical systems; while game theory is ideal for understanding interconnected systems, chaos theory is leading to a complementary understanding of complex systems. Biological systems, which are generally both complex and intercon- nected, are a suitable arena in which to bring the two disciplines together to resolve fundamental problems existing in biological modeling. The University of Western Australia is the home of an active dynamical systems group and this workshop will also take advantage of already-existing research ties between the Australian and U.S. participants.