Travel Support Request for Institute for Advanced Study Workshop on Physics Approach to Simplifying Complexity in Biology; Hong Kong University, China; December 15-19, 2014.

12月15日至19日，2014年物理方法简化生物学复杂性研讨会将物理科学家与生物学家聚集在一起，以解决生物学中的基本科学问题。物理学家和生物学家正在共同努力，以进一步推动我们在预测，定量生物学的发展，这个研讨会在这个方向上是必不可少的。组织者让科学家们研究生命物质的起源以及随着时间的推移而演变的复杂性。生命的涌现现象很难从物理学的基本定律或数学定理中预测出来。新兴的生物体形成了一种独特的复杂适应物质状态;这种复杂适应性可能源于自然选择，因为自然选择的适应性导致了不断增加的适应性。组织者将汇集亚洲与美国和欧洲的物理学和凝聚态物质社区，并将他们与生物学家和生态学家融合在一起，形成一个跨越多学科的前沿工作。主题的范围将是广泛的，希望能够制定出统一的量化主题。该研讨会将涵盖从复杂性的起源到集体行为的出现到复杂适应性物质的不稳定性等领域，这些领域与许多未被理解的主题有关，例如蛋白质功能障碍的动态，社区中的集体冲突以及从深层角度看待癌症等疾病的根本起源。其影响将是找到统一的，简单但深刻的原则，这些原则可以从过去非常成功的物理学统一视角将生物学的复杂性联系起来。

The December 15-19, 2014 Workshop on Physics Approach to Simplifying Complexity in Biology will bring together physical scientists together with biologists to address basic science problems in biology. Phyicists and biologists are working together to further our progress in the development of predictive, quantitative biology and this workshop is essential in this direction. The organizers bring scientists to examine both the origins of living matter and the complexity that has evolved with time. The emergent phenomena of life is hardly predictable from the fundamental laws of physics or the theorems of mathematics. Emergent living organisms form a unique state of complex adaptive matter; this complex adaptability presumably has its roots in natural selection because the adaptation of natural selection gives rise to ever increasing fitness.The organizers will bring together the physics and condensed matter communities in Asia with those in the US and Europe and merge them with biologists and ecologists to form a frontier effort that spans multiple disciplines. The range of subjects will be wide, in the hopes that unifying, quantitative themes can be mapped out. The workshop will cover areas ranging from The Origins of Complexity to The Emergence of Collective Behavior to Instability in Complex Adaptive Matter, which has connections to many ill-understood topics such as the dynamics of protein dis-function, collective conflicts in communities, and the fundamental origins of diseases such as cancer viewed from a deep perspective. The impact will be to find unifying, simple but deep principles which can tie together the bewildering complexity of biology from the unified perspective of physics which has been so successful in the past.