Physics Next: Physics of Living Matter
April 24-27, 2018
Organizers
Hugues Chaté, CEA Saclay, France
Ramin Golestanian, University of Oxford, UK
Meeting Coordinators
Serena Bradde, Assistant Editor, Physical Review E
Dario Corradini, Associate Editor, Physical Review X
Katherine Thomas Wright, Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, and Contributing Editor, Physics
Location
Hyatt Place Long Island hotel, Riverhead, Long Island, NY
Physicists can provide very powerful experimental, computational, and theoretical tools for biologists to use in addressing biological questions in biological systems. However, physicists have growing interest in answering physical questions about these systems. The extraordinary complexity of living systems provides ample material for such studies, with particular success stories, for example, in understanding the collective and emergent properties of strongly interacting, non-equilibrium, biological units such as bird flocks, bacteria suspensions, or cell colonies. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on such problems to discuss the long-term entanglement between physics and biology, focussing on how research on biological systems can be driven by physical questions. Editors from the Physical Review journals will participate to assess editorial needs and challenges in this research direction.
Meeting Activities
- Overview presentations
- Structured discussions
- Meet the APS Editors Reception
- Afternoon/Evening excursions
List of participants in alphabetical order
- Bob Austin, Princeton University
- Anne Bernheim, University of the Negev, Israel
- Bill Bialek, Princeton University
- Irene Chen, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jennifer Curtis, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Silvia Da Monte, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France
- Barbara Drossel, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
- Olga Dudko, University of California, San Diego
- Thierry Emonet, Yale University
- Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois, Urbana
- Kunihiko Kaneko, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Mehran Kardar, MIT
- Karsten Kruse, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Berenike Maier, University of Cologne, Germany
- Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
- Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
- Armita Nourmohammad, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany
- Jacques Prost, Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
- Leihan Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Corina Tarnita, Princeton University
- Alessandro Torcini, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France
- Ala Trusina, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Center, NY
- Fred Wolf, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany
