Growth, Form, and Self-Organization

该项目旨在支持美国领先的科学家参与计划于2017年8月22日至12月20日在英国剑桥艾萨克·牛顿数学科学研究所进行的“增长、形式和自组织”研究计划。具体目标是通过支持和鼓励更多的美国主要研究人员，包括12名初级研究人员参加计划的活动，否则他们将无法参加。 牛顿研究所计划的项目是纪念达西·汤普森（D'Arcy Thompson）有影响力的著作《论生长与形式》（On Growth and Form）一百周年，这本书可以说是第一本关于生命系统物理学的论文，通过将当代各种探索的精神集中在他的工作中，并展望理解生物学的未来。该计划将刺激物理学家，应用数学家，计算机科学家，生物学家和其他对形态学感兴趣的研究人员之间的新的互动和合作。它将致力于开辟富有成效的调查路线，并邀请新的方法来解决生命和无生命系统中的形式和功能的基本问题和特征。该计划将提供机会，在不同的背景下，在不同的尺度上，在形状动力学的各个方面，在学科内和跨学科的思想交叉施肥。计划参与者将培养，并反过来沉浸在一个充满活力和非正式的研究氛围中，有利于创新的想法，大胆的主张和潜在的突破，并形成新的富有成效的合作。该研究所为这种“发酵”提供了一个理想的环境，并积极促进多样性。该方案和研究所共同努力，吸引和确保妇女研究人员的参与。还将投入大量精力和资金支持初级研究人员和学生，确保产生持久的影响。所有讲座和研讨会都将向公众开放，并进行录像、存档，在研究所网站上免费提供。计划举办的四个专题讲习班将为交流和发展想法提供更多机会，这些想法将通过会议记录、论文和新出现的研究方向和努力加以传播。

This project is to support leading United States scientists to participate in the research program on "Growth, Form, and Self-Organization", planned over the period of August 22 - December 20, 2017, at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK. The specific aim is to extend the planned activities by supporting and encouraging participation by a larger number of leading American researchers, including 12 junior researchers, who would otherwise not be able to participate. The planned program at the Newton Institute is to mark the centenary of D'Arcy Thompson's influential book, "On Growth and Form" - arguably the first treatise on the physics of living systems - by bringing various contemporary strands of inquiry in the spirit of his work into focus and to look into the future of understanding biology. The program will stimulate new interactions and collaborations between physicists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, biologists, and other researchers interested in morphology, broadly understood. It will aim to open fruitful lines of inquiry and invite new approaches to address the fundamental issues and features of form and function in living as well as inanimate systems. The program will provide opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas within and across disciplines on various aspects of shape dynamics in diverse contexts and at diverse scales. Program participants will foster, and in turn be immersed in, an energetic and informal research atmosphere, conducive to innovative ideas, daring propositions, and potential breakthroughs, and to forming new kinds of fruitful collaborations. The Institute offers an ideal environment for such a "ferment" and actively promotes diversity. The program and the Institute work together to attract and ensure participation of women researchers. Considerable efforts and funds will also be devoted to supporting junior researchers and students, assuring lasting impact. All lectures and seminars will be open to the public, filmed, archived and made freely accessible on the Institute's website. The four planned thematic workshops will provide further opportunities for sharing and developing ideas, which will be disseminated through proceedings, papers, and newly emerged research directions and endeavors.