ICAM - Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

许多对社会非常感兴趣和重要的材料--包括磁体、太阳能转换的新材料、生物或生物启发材料以及超导体--都表现出“涌现”：它们独特而重要的性质从它们的亚单位，如原子或蛋白质，从实验观察中以一种不可预见的方式显现出来。一个明智的目标是阐明描述这些现象的组织原则的数学精确描述，以指导未来的发现。这种理解需要整合物理、生物、化学和工程学等许多学科的方法，没有一个机构或国家拥有专门知识来完全理解这些组织原则。复杂自适应物质研究所聚集了来自美国和国外的杰出资深科学家，参加关于量子物质(如冷原子凝聚体和超导体)、软物质(如自复制材料和活性流体)和生物物质(如自组装生物分子矩阵和定量神经科学)等新兴现象的尖端研讨会，目标是在促进我们对这些重要问题的理解方面取得实质性进展。这些研讨会充分吸收了年轻的研究生和博士后研究人员，以确保下一代新兴材料科学家将沉浸在这一过程中。技术摘要所有的ICAM研讨会都是以讨论为导向的(至少有一半的时间留出用于讨论)，必须包括一个明确的计划，让初级科学家积极参与和参与，不同学科的资深科学家之间的互动，讲座的视频存档，以及制作研讨会的概述论文。在适当的时候，研讨会组织者必须制定一项计划，为材料基因组计划制定投入，以放置相关的数据和软件。讲习班是在与ICAM科学指导委员会协商后从下列各项中决定的：(I)固体和冷原子凝聚体中的自旋轨道超材料，(Ii)量子材料的数字设计，(Iii)自复制材料，(Iv)活性材料(例如具有工程游泳粒子的流体)，(V)用于材料应用的生物材料的自组装，(Vi)材料科学与对大脑的定量理解的相互作用，或(Vii)新出现物质界提出的重要新专题。该奖项由材料研究部的凝聚态物理和生物材料计划、物理学部的生命系统物理和计算物理计划以及分子和细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理计划共同支持

Non-technical AbstractMany of the materials of great interest and importance for society - including magnets, novel materials for solar energy conversion, biological or biologically inspired materials, and superconductors - exhibit "emergence": their unique and important properties emerge from their subunits such as atoms or proteins in an unforeseen manner from experimental observation. A sensible goal is to elucidate mathematically precise descriptions of the organizing principles describing these phenomena to guide future discovery. This understanding requires an integration of approaches from many disciplines such as physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering, and no one institution - or nation - has the expertise to fully understand these organizing principles by themselves. The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter brings together distinguished senior scientists from across the US and abroad to cutting edge workshops on emergent phenomena in quantum matter (such as cold atomic condensates and superconductors), soft matter (such as self-replicating materials and active fluids), and biological matter (such as self-assembling biomolecule matrices and quantitative neuroscience) with a goal toward making substantive progress on advancing our understanding of these important problems. These workshops fully integrate young graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to assure that the next generation of emergent materials scientists will be immersed in the process. Technical AbstractAll the ICAM workshops are discussion oriented (at least half the time is set aside for discussion), must include an explicit plan for active participation and engagement of junior scientists, for interaction between senior scientists from diverse disciplines, for video archiving of lectures, and for production of an overview paper from the workshop. When appropriate, workshop organizers must develop a plan to develop inputs to the materials genome initiative for placement of relevant data and software. Workshops are decided in consultation with the ICAM Science Steering committee from among: (i) spin-orbit supermaterials in solids and cold atom condensates, (ii) digital design of quantum materials, (iii) self-replicating materials, (iv) active materials (such as fluids with engineered swimming particles), (v) self-assembly of biological materials for materials applications, (vi) materials science interplay with the quantitative understanding of the brain, or (vii) important new topics proposed by the emergent matter community. This award is supported jointly by the Condensed Matter Physcis and Biomaterials Programs in the Division of Materials Research, the Physics of Living Systems and Computational Physics Programs in the Division of Physics, and the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences