International Conference on Complex Systems

描述(由申请者提供)：第五届复杂系统国际会议的生物医学部分申请资助。这次活动将在前四次会议的基础上取得成功，这四次会议是致力于统一研究复杂动力系统的主要国际会议系列。在即将到来的大会上，大会的最后一天(由两次全体会议组成，每次四位发言者)将专门讨论系统生物学，另外两次全体会议将讨论生物学和医学的复杂系统方法。拟议的支持将针对生物医学会议的演讲者、学生和博士后。这次会议将促进NIH促进使用数学、物理、计算机科学和工程学中的量化工具来增强对复杂生物系统的理解的兴趣。会议将通过向其他学科的学生介绍生物学中的主要问题和使这一领域取得快速进展的最新进展，并通过向生物医学学生和研究人员提供可用于理解复杂生物系统的概念和定量方法的背景，来扩大能够为这一目标做出贡献的社区。主办机构新英格兰复杂系统研究所是一个教育和研究机构，有来自主要学术机构的教员参与。它致力于复杂系统研究的跨学科交流和合作。理解复杂系统和复杂性的努力日益增长，引起了科学界的广泛兴趣。各种会议和讲习班都讨论了复杂系统研究的各个方面。然而，复杂系统国际会议是唯一一次将各种各样的研究人员聚集在一起的大型国际会议，展示和促进了这些努力的跨学科但连贯的性质。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for the biomedical part of the program of the Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems. This event will build on the successes of four previous conferences, the main international conference series dedicated to the unified study of complex dynamical systems. In the upcoming conference, the last day of the conference (consisting of two plenary sessions of four speakers each) will be devoted to systems biology, and two of the other plenary sessions to be on complex systems approaches to biology and medicine. The proposed support would be for the presenters in the biomedical sessions, students and postdocs. This conference will advance NIH's interest in promoting the use of quantitative tools from mathematics, physics, computer science and engineering to enhance the understanding of complex biological systems. The conference will expand the community that can contribute to this objective by informing students from other disciplines about the major questions in biology and about the recent advances that are enabling rapid progress in this area, and by providing biomedical students and researchers with background in the concepts and quantitative methods that can be applied to understanding complex biological systems. The host institution, the New England Complex Systems Institute is an educational and research institution with the participation of faculty from major academic institutions. It is dedicated to interdisciplinary communication and collaboration on the study of complex systems. The growing effort to understand complex systems and complexity has attracted wide-ranging interest in the scientific community. Various conferences and workshops have addressed aspects of the study of complex systems. However, the International Conference on Complex Systems is the only major international conference series to bring the wide diversity of researchers together demonstrating and promoting the interdisciplinary but coherent nature of these efforts.