2012 Aspen Winter Conference Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology; Aspen Center for Physics; Aspen, CO.; January 2 - 7, 2012

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1156065 PI: Marchetti， Christina ORG：阿斯彭物理中心标题：2012年阿斯彭冬季会议生长和形式：生物学中的模式形成智力优势：对自然界中发现的复杂模式的起源的定量理解已经挑战了科学家几个世纪。这些模式的范围从胚胎和成年生物的形态到植物的静脉结构，再到表现出协调行为的大群鸟类的组织。由于各种规模的成像技术和计算机建模的进步，我们现在在将细胞或单个尺度与生物体或大群体尺度联系起来方面取得了进展。会议的目标是将物理学家、化学家、数学家、工程师和生物学家聚集在一起，他们正在使用物理原理、统计力学和建模来解决诸如发育生物学、生物矿化和群集等问题。更广泛的影响：这次阿斯彭冬季会议的组织者已经做出了特别的努力，以增加受邀演讲者群体的多样性。目前，20位受邀演讲者中有9位是女性，6位是初级科学家。组织者还将努力吸引大量的青少年参与者。其中几位将被选出来做有贡献的演讲。会议将举办阿斯彭冬季公开讲座，讨论生物学中模式形成的某些方面。讲座将于周三晚上在阿斯彭市中心的惠勒歌剧院举行。认识物理学家？会议期间，阿斯彭社区的成员将与两位会议参与者进行非正式会面，进行问答环节。冬季公开讲座也将在当地电视台草根电视12频道播出，并在互联网上播放。最后，为了确保会议材料的广泛传播，会议的幻灯片和其他内容将在会议网站上公布。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1156065 PI: Marchetti, Christina ORG: Aspen Center for PhysicsTitle: 2012 Aspen Winter Conference Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in BiologyINTELLECTUAL MERIT: The quantitative understanding of the origin of the complex variety of patterns found in nature has challenged scientist for centuries. Such patterns range from the morphology of embryonic and adult organisms to vein structures in plants, to the organization of birds in large flocks that exhibit coordinated behavior. Thanks to advances in imaging techniques on various scale and computer modeling, we are now making progress in connecting the cellular or single individual scale to the organism or large group scale. The goal of the conference is to bring together physicists, chemists, mathematicians, engineers, and biologists who are using physical principles, statistical mechanics, and modeling to approach problems such as developmental biology, biomineralization, and flocking. BROADER IMPACTS: The organizers of this Aspen Winter Conference have made a special effort to increase the diversity of the group of invited speakers. Currently nine of the twenty invited speakers are women and six are junior scientists. The organizers will also work to attract a large number of junior participants. Several will be selected to give contributed talks. The conference will host an Aspen Winter Public Lecture on some aspect of pattern formation in biology. The lecture will be held on Wednesday evening at the Wheeler Opera House, in downtown Aspen and preceded by a ?Meet the Physicist? session where members of the Aspen community will meet informally with two of the conference participants for a question and answer session. The Winter Public Lecture will also be broadcast on local television GrassRoots TV 12 and streamed over the internet. Finally, to ensure broad dissemination of conference material slides and other content of the conference will be posted on the conference website.