Travel Support for Experimental Chaos and Complexity 2016

该奖项的目的是支持学生和早期职业研究人员，包括代表性不足的团体的成员，在数学和物理科学的第14届实验混沌和复杂性会议（ECC 2016）的参与将于2016年5月16日至19日在加拿大阿尔伯塔举行。ECC 2016将汇集一个国际研究小组，以提高对复杂系统的科学理解，如心脏电系统，大脑，能源和电网，社会系统，地震和气候。ECC 2016的目标是鼓励和促进数学，物理，工程，神经科学，化学和生物学实验和应用研究的合作。ECC 2016突出了各种尺度复杂系统研究的新成果。目标是将实验者和应用研究人员聚集在一起，研究非线性动力学，混沌和复杂性的各个方面。这种类型的合作已经成功的应用实例包括心脏电气系统，大脑，能源和电网，社会系统，地震和气候。这些系统可以显示混沌动力学，因为系统的输入或特征的微小变化可以引起行为的巨大变化。数学家、物理学家、工程师、化学家、生物学家和神经科学家对复杂性和混沌的研究，使人们有能力理解和控制混沌系统，从控制心脏混沌到提高燃烧系统的效率。该奖项为学生和早期职业研究人员，包括代表性不足的群体的成员，提供了出席和参与本次会议的机会，希望它能为这一群体激发新的研究方向和合作。会议网站：http://wcm.ucalgary.ca/ecc2016/

The purpose of this award is to support participation by students and early career researchers, including members of under-represented groups, in the mathematical and physical sciences at the 14th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference (ECC 2016) to be held May 16-19, 2016 in Alberta, Canada. ECC 2016 will bring together an international group of researchers to improve the scientific understanding of complex systems such as the cardiac electrical system, the brain, energy and the power grid, social systems, earthquakes, and climate. The objective of ECC 2016 is to encourage and facilitate the collaboration of experimental and applied research in mathematics, physics, engineering, neuroscience, chemistry, and biology. ECC 2016 highlights new results in the study of complex systems at a variety of scales. The goal is to bring together experimentalists and applied researchers to study various aspects of of nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and complexity. Examples of applications where this type of collaboration has been successful include the cardiac electrical system, the brain, energy and the power grid, social systems, earthquakes, and climate. These systems can display chaotic dynamics, in that small changes in inputs or features of the system can cause large changes in behavior. The study of complexity and chaos by mathematicians, physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists has led to the ability to understand and control chaotic systems in areas ranging from control of cardiac chaos to improved efficiency in combustion systems. The award gives students and early career researchers, including members of under-represented groups, the opportunity to attend and participate in this conference, with the hope that it inspires new research directions and collaborations for this group.Conference web site: http://wcm.ucalgary.ca/ecc2016/