LOCALE: Computation Institute (Room RI 480), University of Chicago, Illinois
DATE: Thursday, February 22, 1 pm to 5 pm

This seminar will focus on the phenomenon of "Emergence in Complex Systems" and will feature three invited presentations:

Prof. Sir Michael Berry (Physics Department, Bristol University). "Emergence and Asymptotics in Physics: How One Theory Can Live inside Another".

Prof. Evgeni Selkov (Encyclopedia Genomica, Austria; the University of Chicago). "Metabolic Incompatibility and Square Waveform of the Cell Clock".

Prof. Orly Alter (University of Texas at Austin). "Discovery of Principles of Nature from Mathematical Modeling of DNA Microarray Data".

Plus two short presentations:

Prof. Yves A. Lussier (Center for Biomedical Informatics, Cancer Research Center, The University of Chicago). "Emerging Systems Properties in a Comprehensive Genomic Network of Prokaryotic Traits".

Dr. Julius Jellinek (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Computation Institute, University of Chicago/Argonne). "Complexity and Emergence: A New Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry and Education".

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://press.mcs.anl.gov/sysbio/