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

该奖项将支持由图森亚利桑那大学的Thomas L. Vincent教授和西澳大利亚大学的A.I. Mees教授联合举办的“复杂互联生物系统动力学”研讨会。参加者将于1989年1月在西澳大利亚州奥尔巴尼举行会议，确定并开始处理复杂相互联系的生物系统建模方面的问题。本次研讨会将汇集博弈论和混沌理论的专家，这两种理论在理解相互关联系统的进化过程中发挥着越来越重要的作用，试图利用跨学科重叠的协同作用。博弈论和混沌理论的最新发展使人们对动力系统有了更好的理解；虽然博弈论是理解相互关联的系统的理想选择，但混沌理论正在导致对复杂系统的互补理解。生物系统通常既复杂又相互关联，是将这两个学科结合起来解决生物建模中存在的基本问题的合适领域。西澳大利亚大学是一个活跃的动力系统小组的所在地，这次研讨会也将利用澳大利亚和美国参与者之间已经存在的研究联系。

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.