Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes - Modern Challenges in Statistical Mechanics; Patterns, Noise and the Interplay of Nonlinearity and Complexity; Spring 2002, Argentina

这个由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国能源部（DOE）联合支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）奖将于2002年春天在阿根廷的巴里洛切举行，主题是统计力学的现代挑战及其应用。该研究所由新墨西哥大学的V.M. Kenkre博士组织，将把来自几个领域的科学家聚集在一起，为来自美国和拉丁美洲的学生开设一所强化学校，重点关注两个主要领域：生物学中的非线性现象和模式形成，以及复杂流体统计力学方法的有效性。第三个重点领域是统计力学中的现代计算方法，将作为其他两个领域的一般支持。讨论的主题将围绕当前统计力学中许多活动的领域，特别是：模式的形成，噪声在诱导有序和无序中的作用，以及统计力学在生物、化学、物理、工程和其他环境中的复杂系统中的应用和含义。该PASI的传播将通过以书籍形式出版学校的会议记录来完成。

0121888KenkreThis Pan American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Bariloche, Argentina in the spring of 2002, on the topic of modern challenges in statistical mechanics and its applications. Organized by Dr. V.M. Kenkre of the University of New Mexico, the institute will bring scientists from several fields together to conduct an intensive school for students from the U.S and Latin America focused on two major areas: nonlinear phenomena and pattern formation in biology, and the validity of the methodology of statistical mechanics for complex fluids. A third focus area on modern computational methods in statistical mechanics will serve as general support for the other two.The subjects discussed will center around current areas of much activity in statistical mechanics, in particular: in the formation of patterns, the role of noise in inducing order as well as disorder, and applications and implications of statistical mechanics to complex systems in biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and other contexts. Dissemination of this PASI will be accomplished by publishing the proceedings of the school in book form.