Emergence in Disordered, Interacting and Living Systems a the Aspen Center August 12, 2017

将于2017年8月12日在阿斯彭物理中心举行的“无序、相互作用和生命系统中的浮现”会议将汇聚无序、相互作用和生命系统中浮现领域的世界领袖，讨论该领域当今社区面临的重大挑战。会议还将用来纪念Elihu Abrahams教授的成就，他的工作塑造了我们对这一科学领域的理解，无论是在凝聚态物理的背景下，还是在生命科学的背景下。会议将侧重于前瞻性研究演讲和小组讨论，并将辅之以具有历史视角的演讲，考察亚伯拉罕教授做出开创性贡献的科学领域。这次活动将提供一个独特的机会来总结凝聚态和生命系统中涌现行为的理解现状。本次活动的发言和讨论将在会议网页上在线公布。这次会议提供的观点将有助于为未来的研究人员制定这一领域的大问题和研究方向，以推动研究的前沿。相互作用的多体系统中的无序和噪音是各种科学领域的基础，从量子计算到一般的电子设备，在生物学中，在细胞功能和脑神经网络中。它们是生命系统用来执行其功能的物理原理和动力学过程的模型。埃利胡·亚伯拉罕是我们理解无序和相互作用系统的理论基础的先驱，他将概念从他的主要专长量子凝聚态物理扩展到包括自旋玻璃和神经网络在内的领域。会议将集中在这些领域，国际和平研究所将讨论最新的实验和理论发展。根据Aspen研讨会的悠久传统，演讲者和参与者中有很大一部分将是初级科学家。PI将专门从许多大学招募初级演讲者和不同的参与者群体。残疾人可以进入会议地点，在登记参加会议时，这些人将能够确定任何特殊需要，以便会议组织者能够满足这些需要。

The meeting on "Emergence in disordered, interacting and living systems" to be held at the Aspen Center for Physics, August 12th, 2017 will bring together world leaders in the area of emergence in disordered, interacting, and living systems to discuss grand challenges in the area that face the community today. The occasion of the conference will also be used to mark the achievements of Professor Elihu Abrahams, whose work has shaped our understanding of this area of science, both in the context of condensed matter physics and in the life sciences. The conference will focus on forward-looking research talks and panel discussions, and will be supplemented with presentations with historical perspective, examining the areas of science where Professor Abrahams has made seminal contributions. This event will provide a unique opportunity to summarize the current status of understanding of emergent behavior in condensed matter and living systems. The presentations and discussions at this event will be published online on the conference web-page. The perspective provided by this meeting will help to frame the big questions and directions for research in this area for future researchers to push back the frontiers of research.Disorder and noise in interacting many-body systems are fundamental to areas of science as diverse as quantum computing and in general electronic devises and in biology in cell function and brain neuronal networks. They serve as models for the physical principles and dynamical processes that living systems exploit to perform their functions. Elihu Abrahams is a pioneer in the theoretical foundations of our understanding of disordered and interacting systems, extending the concepts beyond his main specialty of quantum condensed matter physics to areas including spin glasses and neural networks. The conference will focus on these areas and the PI will discuss the latest experimental and theoretical developments. In line with a long-standing tradition of Aspen workshops, a significant fraction of the speakers and participants will be junior scientists. The PI will specifically recruit junior speakers and a diverse group of participants from many universities. The meeting site is accessible for people with disabilities and when registering for the conference such people will be able to identify any special needs so that the conference organizers can accommodate those needs.