Quantitative Laws in Statistical Physics and Biology: Lake Como Workshop

统计物理学和生物学“数量定律”研讨会将于2016年6月在意大利科莫湖举行。本次研讨会的目的是通过讲座，讨论和初级和高级研究人员之间的对话，在统计物理学和生物学的界面上交流关键前沿领域的研究基础和进展。本次研讨会的统一主题是生态系统中出现的定量规律，但更普遍的目标是提供一个广泛的视角来看待这一学科与细胞生理学和复杂系统之间的联系。研讨会将提供必要的方法工具和观点，使初级研究人员能够理解和执行这些领域的前沿研究。它主要面向具有物理或数学背景的博士生和博士后，但也向具有（进化）基因组学，（进化）生物学，生物信息学，生态学背景的人开放，并且对定量工作感兴趣。研讨会分为两个主题，集中在(1)生理学到生态学和(2)相互作用结构到集体行为领域的统计物理学和生物学界面的结果、发现和方法。从分子尺度到生态系统的生物系统中反复出现的定量模式的发现，导致了统计物理学和生物学之间界面领域的不断发展。这个界面是由物理学家和生物科学家的有意义的参与，专注于相关问题和利用理论方法从非平衡统计物理，概率论，网络理论，和大规模模拟。超过15位具有生命系统物理学专业知识的国际演讲者将以研讨会/学校的形式开展基础讲座和高级研究课题，吸引学生和博士后进入这一新兴领域。该研讨会的独特之处在于将详细的定量和基于物理的方法整合到基因组学、细胞生物学、微生物学、生态进化、免疫学和病毒学等应用领域的数据和问题的核心分析中。基金将支持大约10名美国的博士候选人和博士后科学家参加一个多学科交叉的国际研讨会，包括统计物理学和生物科学，并将其应用于基因组学、细胞生物学、微生物学、生态进化、免疫学和病毒学。在美国，招聘的目标将广泛，包括以学生为基础的协会，专门支持将代表性不足的群体纳入尖端科学项目。

The workshop on "Quantitative Laws:" in Statistical Physics and Biology will be held in Lake Como, Italy in June 2016. The purpose of this workshop is to communicate the foundations and advances in research in key cutting-edge areas at the interface of statistical physics and biology, by means of lecture, discussion and dialogue amongst junior and advanced researchers. The unifying theme of this workshop is quantitative laws emerging in ecosystems, but a more general aim is to provide a wide perspective on the connections of this discipline with cellular physiology on one side and to complex systems on the other. The workshop will provide the necessary methodological tools and perspectives to enable a junior researcher to understand and perform cutting-edge research in these areas. It will primarily target PhD students and postdocs with a physics or mathematics background, but it is open to anyone with background in (evolutionary) genomics, (evolutionary) biology, bioinformatics, ecology, who is interested in quantitative work. The workshop is divided in two themes, centered on results, discoveries and methods at the interface of statistical physics and biology in the areas of (1) physiology to ecology and (2) interaction structures to collective behavior. The discovery of recurring, quantitative patterns in biological systems across living systems from scales of molecules to ecosystems has led to the increasing development of an interface field between statistical physics and biology. This interface is enabled by the meaningful involvement of both physicists and bioscientists, focusing on relevant problems and leveraging theoretic methods from non-equilibrium statistical physics, probability theory, network theory, and large-scale simulation. Over 15 international speakers with expertise in the physics of living systems will develop foundational lectures as well as advanced research topics to engage students and postdocs entering this emerging field in a workshop/school format. The workshop will be unique in its integration of detailed quantitative and physics-based methods into the core analysis of data and problems in applications areas including genomics, cell biology, microbiology, ecology evolution, immunology and virology. Funds will support approximately 10 US-based PhD candidates and postdoctoral scientists to participate in an international workshop at the interface between multiple disciplines, including statistical physics and the biosciences, with applications to genomics, cell biology, microbiology, ecology evolution, immunology and virology. Recruitment will be targeted broadly in the United States, including student-based associations specifically supporting the inclusion of under-represented groups in cutting-edge scientific programs.