Welcome to ICAM-I2CAM

The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM) is a distributed experiment-based multi-institutional partnership whose purpose is to identify major new research themes in complex adaptive matter—the search for an understanding of emergent behavior in hard, soft, and living matter. Its open and dynamic scientific programs include exploratory workshops, frontiers symposia, fellowships and travel awards. Through its branches in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and Australia, it nucleates and conducts collaborative research and scientific training that links together scientists in different fields and different institutions, and draws from chemical, physical and biological viewpoints on its research themes.

Its outreach and educational programs seek to convey to a broad cross-disciplinary audience an appreciation of the scientific excitement and challenges in carrying out the search for an understanding of emergent behavior in matter. ICAM is in the process of expanding its Emergent Universe Alliance into an international educational network whose projects include a virtual science museum, emergentuniverse.org, and SuperNet, a network of scientists, high school teachers and students who work together to  develop new educational modules that bring the frontiers of quantum matter into the classroom.

ICAM-I2CAM Announcements & News

July 1-3, 2010, Complex interactions and mechanisms in organic photovoltaics

Held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with I-CAMP

ICAM travel awards are available


Sept. 13-17, 2010, Challenges of water in biological systems

Held at the University of Chicago, Illinois

ICAM travel awards are available.


Past Announcements & News

October 27-30, 2010 Emerging phenomena of correlated electron materials with broken symmetry and spatial confinement


October 11-14, 2010, Novel phenomena: from non-living to living complex systems


May 31 - June 3, 2010, Physics of Novel Energy Materials


June 27 - July 2, 2010, SCES 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico


June 6-12, 2010 FAPERJ Summer School


June 20 - July 10, 2010 I-CAMP Summer School


August 2-13, 2010, Dynasoft 2010 Cargese


Workshop Proposals due March 5


April 9, 2010, Biannual Metro-Gotham Condensed Matter Meeting


December 7-9, 2009, Re-Examining the Foundations of Evolution


April 19-27, 2010 Emergent Properties School, JNCASR, Bangalore


Webcast links for ICAM Annual Conference Jan 11-13, 2010


Live and Archived Webcasts on Resistive Switching & Memristors


Best Thesis Medal for year 2008-09 at JNCASR


Interdisciplinary cell biology program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics


Emergent Universe On Line Museum of Science is OPEN!


August 2-13, 2010, Principles and Design of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems


August 9-21, 2010, Quantum Phenomena in Nanostructures, Low-D and strongly correlated materials


August 9-27, 2010, Workshop on Soft Matter Physics


ICAMNews April 2009 Edition Now Available


ICAM Co-director David Pines to receive honorary doctorate from St. Andrews University in Scotland


Live Webcast Information for ICAM/I2CAM Workshop on Soft Active Materials May 18-22 2009, Syracuse University


XIV Training Course in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems


Laura Greene receives Guggenheim Fellowship!


Cuprate Fermiology Presentations


August 24 - September 25, 2009 Morphodynamics of Plants, Animals and Beyond


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