Conference: Dynamics Days 2015, January 9-11, 2015, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Houston, Texas

从星期五，2015年1月9日星期日至2015年1月11日会议：“动力学天”将由理论生物物理中心（CTBP），美国国家科学基金会物理前沿中心主办。CTBP位于休斯顿，由莱斯大学、贝勒医学院和休斯顿大学参与，其使命是促进物理学和生物学的融合，以理解复杂的生命系统。与此同时，这项研究的结果将反馈到一般的物理学中，并有助于开发思考所有复杂系统现象的新方法。会议将有100-200人参加，观众的核心由物理学家和数学家组成，但也包括来自工程，生物和化学等其他领域的大量人员。会议形式包括一次全体会议。会议涉及的主题将包括复杂网络的动力学，生物系统的非线性动力学，非线性系统的同步和自组织，地球物理流体动力学和模式形成。这次会议对于保持所有参与使用物理和数学来理解复杂系统的不同研究人员之间的一致性至关重要。因此，专注于生命系统物理学（PoLS）的研究人员将能够直接与可能在其他环境中开创新方法的研究人员进行互动。相反，那些从未接触过生物领域所面临的巨大挑战的科学家将能够听到领先的PoLS研究人员的演讲，并可能提供很多东西。即使PoLS领域接触到生物界，保持与物理学的联系仍然是一个高度优先事项。Dynamics Days将帮助确保这一点。这次会议将汇集积极从事动力学研究的科学家。大多数参与者在动态天将是学生和博士后来自社会各界。他们都将被要求展示自己研究工作的海报。最直接的广泛影响将是扩大初级参与者的教育经验。此外，当地的本科生，无论是从赖斯和CTBP的合作少数民族和西班牙裔服务机构的现有网络将被邀请。

From Friday, January 9, 2015 Sunday to January 11, 2015 the Conference: "Dynamics Days" will be hosted by the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), an NSF Physics Frontier Center. Located in Houston with participation from Rice University, the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston, the CTBP mission is to foster the convergence of physics and biology to make sense of complex living systems. At the same time, results from this research will feed back into physics in general, and help develop new ways of thinking about all complex system phenomena. The conference will be attended by 100-200 people, with the core of the audience consisting from physicists and mathematicians, but including a substantial number of people from other fields such as engineering, biology, and chemistry. The conference format consists of a single plenary session. Topics covered in the conference will include dynamics on and of complex networks, nonlinear dynamics of biological systems, synchronization and self-organization of nonlinear systems, geophysical fluid dynamics, and pattern formation. This conference is essential for maintaining coherence among all the disparate researchers involved in using physics and mathematics to make sense of complex systems. Thus, researchers focusing on the Physics of Living Systems (PoLS) will be able to interact directly with researchers who may be pioneering new methods, in other contexts. Conversely, scientists who have never been exposed to the enormous challenges encountered in the biological realm will get to hear talks by leading PoLS researchers and may have much to offer. Even as the PoLS field reaches out to the biology community, maintaining ties with physics remain a high priority. Dynamics Days will help make sure that this occurs. This meeting will bring together scientists actively engaged in Dynamics research. Most of the participants in Dynamics Days will be students and postdocs coming from a broad spectrum of the community. They will all be expected to present posters on their own research work. The most immediate broad impact will be on broadening the educational experience for the junior participants. In addition, local undergraduates, both from Rice and from the CTBP's existing network of collaborating minority- and Hispanic- serving institutions will be invited.