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From: Susan Higgins <shiggins@ias.edu> Subject: Institute for Advanced Study Offers Summer Program Date: January 9, 2012 10:38:49 AM PST To: sali@SALILAB.ORG
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, USA
Dear Colleague,
From July 9-20, 2012, the Institute for Advanced Study will offer its annual Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) summer program on the Institute campus in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
The 2012 PiTP Program, "Computation and Biology," will explore, for the first time, a range of topics at the interface of theoretical computer science, statistical physics and quantitative biology.
This program is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in all three fields of computer science, theoretical physics and quantitative biology. A list of topics to be covered, and the lecturers expected to speak on each topic, are noted below:
- "Errors and codes": Måns Ehrenberg (Uppsala University) and Tsvi Tlusty (Institute for Advanced Study)
- "Viruses and immunity": Guillaume Bonfante (Université de Nancy), Arup Chakraborty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study)
- "Growth and form": Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary) and Enrico Coen (John Innes Centre, Norwich)
- "Natural algorithms": Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University), Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and Guy Theraulaz (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- "Learning & robotics": Hod Lipson (Cornell University), Dario Floreano (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and Michale Fee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Attached is a poster for the PiTP 2012 program, which we kindly ask you to please print and display as appropriate. Information about application procedures and a program schedule can be found on the PiTP website: www.ias.edu/pitp.
We would be grateful if you would bring this program to the attention of students and postdocs in your department, as well as to the attention of colleagues in your department and elsewhere. In particular, we encourage the participation of women, minorities, and students from institutions with smaller programs in the areas of computer science, theoretical physics and quantitative biology.
We hope that you will encourage any young researcher who would benefit from this kind of program to apply.
Sincerely,
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University David Huse, Princeton University Stanislas Leibler, Institute for Advanced Study