I2CAM - International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

该奖项继续支持成立于2004年的国际复杂自适应物质研究所（I2CAM）。该研究所设在加州大学，包括来自美国几所大学的高级研究人员以及来自巴西、法国、德国、印度、瑞士、乌克兰和英国的合作伙伴。该国际材料研究所（IMI）由美国国家科学基金会材料研究部资助。IMI的研究重点是确定软凝聚态物质、强相关电子和生物系统中出现的新的、复杂的、集体的现象和行为背后的组织原则。该研究所组织探索性研讨会和学校，探讨复杂适应性物质（包括人脑）中涌现现象的前沿研究课题，汇集材料科学家、生物学家和神经科学家。I2CAM还为青年科学家和研究生提供旅行资助，以参加会议、研讨会或学校，并为短期国际交流访问提供支持，以启动和发展合作项目。此外，I2CAM还支持博士后研究奖学金，用于在两个（或更多）国际机构进行合作研究。来自美国、加拿大、欧洲、亚洲、澳大利亚和南美的70多家机构参与了I2CAM活动。I2CAM的推广工作包括：新兴宇宙项目，目标是建立一个在线科学博物馆，致力于向公众解释物质中新兴现象的概念；一系列名为“伟大的解释”的视频，内容涉及量子临界性、淀粉样物质、蛋白质折叠和生物发动机，将发布在YouTube和SciVee上；ICAMIPEDIA是一项努力，旨在开发一个关于物质中的突发现象的文章基础，这些文章的细节超出了维基百科，而不会过于技术性。IMI的管理机构包括联合董事、理事会、执行委员会、指导委员会、协调委员会和奖学金委员会，以及提供年度审查和理事会的外部咨询委员会。该奖项由DMR-OSP、PHY-PoLS、PHY-AMO、BIO-IOS、BIO-MCB和OISE共同资助。

This award continues support for the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) that was founded in 2004. This Institute is based at the University of California and includes senior researchers from several universities within the USA and partners from Brazil, France, Germany, India, Switzerland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom. This International Materials Institute (IMI) is funded by NSF's Division of Materials Research. The IMI's research focus is to identify organizing principles behind the emergence of new, complex, collective phenomena and behavior in soft condensed matter, strongly correlated electron and biological systems. The Institute organizes exploratory workshops and schools on cutting edge research topics in emergent phenomena in complex adaptive matter, including human brain, bringing together materials scientists, biologists and neuroscientists. I2CAM also offers travel grants to junior scientists and graduate students to attend conferences, workshops, or schools as well as provides support for short international exchange visits to start and develop collaborative projects. Furthermore, postdoctoral research fellowship awards are also supported by I2CAM for collaborative research at two (or more) international institutions. Over 70 institutions in US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America participate in I2CAM activities. Outreach efforts of I2CAM include: Emergent Universe project with a goal to develop an online science museum devoted to explaining the concept of emergent phenomena in matter to general public; a series of videos called Great Explanations on quantum criticality, amyloid matter, protein folding and biological motors to be posted on YouTube and SciVee; ICAMIPEDIA is an effort to develop a base of articles on emergent phenomena in matter which go beyond Wikipedia in detail without being excessively technical. The IMI's management consists of Co-directors, Board of Governors, Executive, Steering, Coordinating, and Fellowship committees as well as an External Advisory Committee that provides an annual review and council. This award is jointly funded by DMR-OSP, PHY-PoLS, PHY-AMO, BIO-IOS, BIO-MCB and OISE.