SPL
3 July 2023 to 20 December 2023
Understanding biological physics in detail requires one to not only explore the complex, multiscale structures of biological materials but also to understand their emergent properties that arise out of their being in a nonequilibrium steady state. The cytoskeleton, for example, is a complex assemblage of filaments, their bundles, and various proteins which interact with them. But the mechanics and biological utility of this structure are not determined merely by their structural elements, but by their nonequilibrium state, characterized by endogenous motor activity and the polymerization and depolymerization of the constituent filaments. Consequently, recent developments in the areas of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics are of critical importance to the physical foundations of living matter, but these ideas remain incomplete and, in most cases, have not penetrated into the biological physics and biology communities.
The proposed programme aims to bring together researchers in mathematics and statistical physics specializing in the fundamental properties of fluctuations and response in nonequilibrium states with researchers in biological physics. We expect the work to enable new collaborations and cross-fertilization of ideas. In short, we expect that understanding the living world will provide challenges that will stimulate new fundamental thinking in statistical physics while current research in this field will help to structure our ever-expanding knowledge of living matter as a nonequilibrium dynamical system. One example of how the living world can introduce new ideas into statistical physics is found in the studies of a large class of nonequilibrium steady-states that are under some form of homeostatic control. In these systems, the energy input maintaining the nonequilibrium state itself depends on the current (or recent) state of the system. While there has been great progress in understanding the statistical physics of driven systems, this new feature of feedback-based control, which is endemic to biology, has received comparatively little attention.
We believe that the time is ripe for a programme to bring together biologists and biophysicists at the cutting edge of these investigations with physicists and mathematicians studying nonequilibrium statistical physics. The potential for collaborative breakthrough is strong: not only are more abstract mathematical ideas from statistical physics necessary to interpret these data, but also these experiments will point out new areas for theoretical research in a variety of tightly regulated nonequilibrium systems.
3 July 2023 to 7 July 2023
4 September 2023 to 8 September 2023
9 October 2023 to 13 October 2023
24 October 2023 to 24 October 2023
13 November 2023 to 17 November 2023
Monday 10th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 11th July 2023 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Andrej Košmrlj Princeton University |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Herbert Levine Northeastern University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Kirone Mallick CEA/Saclay; École Polytechnique |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 12th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Isabella Guido University of Surrey; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 13th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Christoph Schmidt Duke University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University |
Room 2 |
Friday 14th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Marco Mazza Loughborough University |
Room 2 |
Monday 17th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Martin Evans University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 18th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Rachel Bennett University of Bristol |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 19th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 |
Thursday 20th July 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 11:30 |
Ryoichi Yamamoto Kyoto University |
Discussion Room | |
Monday 24th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Karsten Kruse Université de Genève |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 25th July 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Karsten Kruse Université de Genève |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Rhoda Hawkins African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 27th July 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Karsten Kruse Université de Genève |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Anupam Kundu International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 | |
Monday 31st July 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Cristian Giardina Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Evelyn Tang Rice University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Moumita Das Rochester Institute of Technology |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 1st August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Matthew Turner University of Warwick; Kyoto University |
Room 2 | |
11:00 to 12:00 |
Manas Kulkarni International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 |
Thursday 3rd August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Andela Saric IST Austria; University College London |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Rosemary Harris Queen Mary University of London; University College London |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 8th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
José Alvarado University of Texas at Austin |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 9th August 2023 | |||
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14:30 to 15:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 10th August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jonathan Selinger Kent State University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 15th August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Robin Selinger Kent State University |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 17th August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Elsen Tjhung The Open University |
Room 2 |
Friday 18th August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Robert Jack University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 22nd August 2023 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Chiu Fan Lee Imperial College London |
Room 2 |
Thursday 24th August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Rita de Almeida Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Rastko Sknepnek University of Dundee |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 29th August 2023 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 31st August 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Sara Jabbari-farouji Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Discussion Room | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Farzan Vafa Harvard University |
Discussion Room | |
Friday 1st September 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh |
Discussion Room | |
Monday 11th September 2023 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Ricard Alert Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 12th September 2023 | |||
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09:30 to 11:00 | Room 2 | ||
15:00 to 16:00 |
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 14th September 2023 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Timon Idema Delft University of Technology |
Room 2 |
Friday 15th September 2023 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Mark Bowick University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 19th September 2023 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Douglas Durian University of Pennsylvania |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 21st September 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science |
Room 2 | |
Monday 16th October 2023 | |||
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13:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 17th October 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure |
Room 2 | |
13:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 18th October 2023 | |||
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13:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 19th October 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure |
Room 2 | |
13:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Friday 20th October 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure |
Room 2 | |
13:00 to 14:00 |
Laura Machesky University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
14:30 to 15:30 |
Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich |
Room 2 |
Monday 23rd October 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 1st November 2023 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Andrea Liu University of Pennsylvania |
Room 1 | |
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