Workshop on Research Opportunities at the Interface of Biology, Mathematics and the Physical Sciences being held in Arlington, VA on March 14-16, 1996 at the N.S.F

9629868 Kollman生物系统的表征已经达到了无与伦比的细节水平。 为了组织这些细节，更好地理解生命过程，必须将数学和物理科学中强大的概念工具应用于生物学的前沿问题。 生物系统的建模正在演变为实验工作的重要伙伴。 生物学、环境、器官、细胞和分子生物学的所有方面都越来越容易采用化学、物理和数学方法。 1990年由美国国家科学基金会支持举行的一次题为“数学和生物学、界面、挑战和机遇”的会议报告中强调了这一领域的机会。“（MBICO）这笔赠款将支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将建立在MBICO的研究结果的基础上，以批判性地评估其研究结果，并建议这些关键的跨学科领域中的哪些领域应该成为进一步研究的重点。 该研讨会将汇集大约30名科学家，他们的专业知识从分子到细胞到生物体到种群生物学水平，他们都对数学/计算方法在生物系统中的应用感兴趣。 研讨会的目标是确定重要的研究领域，在这些领域中，理论/计算研究可以在提供洞察力和帮助相关实验工作方面发挥最大作用。 ***

9629868 Kollman Characterization of biological systems has reached an unparalleled level of detail. To organize this detail and arrive at a better fundamental understanding of life processes, it is imperative that powerful conceptual tools from mathematics and the physical sciences be applied to the frontier problems in biology. Modeling of biological systems is evolving into an important partner of experimental work. All facets of biology, environmental, organismic, cellular and molecular biology are becoming more accessible to chemical, physical and mathematical approaches. This area of opportunity was highlighted in the report of a conference supported by the National Science Foundation held in 1990 entitled "Mathematics and Biology, the Interface, Challenges and Opportunities." (MBICO) This grant will support a workshop that will build on the findings of MBICO in order to critically evaluate its findings and to suggest which areas in these critical interdisciplinary areas should be the focus of further research. This workshop will bring together approximately thirty scientists, with expertise ranging from the molecular to the cellular to the organism to the population biology level, all of whom have an interest in applications of mathematical/computational approaches to biological systems. The goal of the workshop is to identify the important research areas where theoretical/computational studies can be of most use in giving insight and in aiding related experimental work. ***