Quantitative Laws in Statistical Physics and Biology: Lake Como Workshop

《量化定律：统计物理与生物学》研讨会将于2016年6月在意大利科莫湖举行。这次讲习班的目的是通过初级和高级研究人员之间的讲座、讨论和对话，在统计物理和生物学的关键前沿领域的研究基础和进展方面进行交流。这个研讨会的统一主题是生态系统中出现的数量规律，但更普遍的目的是提供一个广泛的视角，说明这门学科与细胞生理学和复杂系统的联系。讲习班将提供必要的方法工具和视角，使初级研究人员能够了解和开展这些领域的前沿研究。它将主要面向具有物理或数学背景的博士生和博士后，但它对任何对定量工作感兴趣的具有(进化)基因组学、(进化)生物学、生物信息学和生态学背景的人开放。讲习班分为两个主题，集中在(1)生理学与生态学和(2)相互作用结构与集体行为领域的统计物理和生物学交界处的结果、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，导致了统计物理和生物学之间的界面领域的日益发展。这一接口是由于物理学家和生物科学家的有意义的参与，专注于相关问题，并利用非平衡统计物理、概率论、网络理论和大规模模拟的理论方法。超过15名具有生命系统物理学专业知识的国际演讲者将开发基础讲座和高级研究主题，以研讨会/学校的形式吸引进入这一新兴领域的学生和博士后。研讨会的独特之处在于，它将详细的定量和基于物理的方法整合到核心数据分析和应用领域的问题中，这些领域包括基因组学、细胞生物学、微生物学、生态进化、免疫学和病毒学。基金将支持大约10名美国博士候选人和博士后科学家参加一个多学科之间的国际研讨会，包括统计物理学和生物科学，应用于基因组学、细胞生物学、微生物学、生态学进化、免疫学和病毒学。招生将在美国广泛开展，包括以学生为基础的协会，特别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.