2017 Cargese Summer School on Theoretical Biophysics in Corsica, France June 25-July 6, 2017

该项目将支持美国研究人员参加2017年6月25日至7月6日举行的Cargese理论生物物理学暑期学校。学校将培训50名学生（其中近一半来自美国），培训将由19-20名核心和研讨会讲师和组织者完成。从物理学的角度来看，生物系统因其复杂性和异质性而引人注目。学校将围绕核心讲座（独立的迷你课程）、研讨会演讲和讨论来构建。学生项目和专题讨论会将提供积极的学习组成部分。该学院将主要面向物理和数学学科的初级研究人员，但对生物学问题感兴趣。学院将致力于培养下一代物理学和生命科学领域的理论家，尤其注重促进妇女和传统上代表性不足的少数民族的发展。该学院将进一步为该领域年轻研究人员的国际合作社区的建立和发展做出贡献。生命系统跨越许多长度和时间尺度，并通过主动的能量消耗过程不断地保持不平衡。了解它们的功能对传统的物理方法提出了重大挑战。尽管物理学和生物学的问题各不相同，但它们的共同点是，从局部相互作用的总和中出现了一个全局和集体现象。如何用一种共同的语言来表述这些问题，并用它来做出相关的、可靠的生物学预测，将是这个暑期学校的一个主要目标。这所学校的目标是理解生物系统的功能，从细胞到生物体群，根据物理定律。将讨论从神经科学到细胞信号传导以及复杂性如何产生的各种主题。该项目由物理系的生命系统物理学项目和分子与细胞生物科学系的分子生物物理学项目共同支持。

This project will support participation of United States researchers at the 2017 Cargese Summer School on Theoretical Biophysics, June 25-July 6, 2017. The school will train 50 students (close to half of them from the United States), and the training will be done by 19-20 core and seminar lecturers and organizers. From the point of view of physics, biological systems stand out due to their complexity and heterogeneity. The school will be structured around core lectures (self-contained mini-courses), seminar presentations, and discussions. Student projects and symposia will provide an active learning component. The school will be aimed primarily at junior researchers in physical and mathematical disciplines, but interested in biological questions. The School will contribute to training the next generation of theorists on the interface of physics and life sciences, focusing especially on promoting women and traditionally underrepresented minorities. The School will further contribute towards the establishment and growth of the international, collaborative community of young researchers in this field.Living systems span many length and timescales, and are constantly kept out of equilibrium by active energy-consuming processes. Understanding their functioning poses a major challenge to traditional physical approaches. Despite their diversity, questions on the interface of physics and biology have in common the emergence of a global and collective phenomenon from a sum of local interactions. How to formulate these problems in a common language, and use it to make relevant and reliable biological predictions will be a major goal of this this summer school. The school will aim at understanding the functioning of biological systems, from cells to groups of organisms, in light of the laws of physics. Diverse topics from neuroscience to cellular signaling and how complexity emerges will be discussed.This project is being jointly supported by the Physics of Living Systems program in the Division of Physics and the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.