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
Location: Trieste, Italy
Organizers: Leticia Cugliandolo, Paris; Leonid Glazman, Yale; Giuseppe Mussardo, SISSA, Italy
This Summer College will review the state of the art in the experiment and theory of classical and quantum nonequilibrium phenomena in low dimensional systems. Lecture courses consist on 10 series of 2-4 lectures on general topics will encompass:
· Keldysh formalism
· Nonequilibrium critical phenomena in classical systems
· Nonequilibrium phyics in nanostructures
· Boundary field theory and nonequilibrium
· Numerical approaches to nonequilibrium problems
· Dynamics of spin glasses
· Noise in nonequilibrium quantum systems
· RG and flow equations for nonquilibrium quantum systems
Lectures will be complemented with seminars, discussions, tutorials and poster sessions.
Topics of the College:
· General analytical and numerical approaches: bulk and boundary field theories,
· Keldysh technique, time-dependent DMRG
· Critical phenomena in classical and quantum non-equilibrium systems
· Dynamics of quantum and classical glasses
· Non-equilibrium physics in nanostructures and quantum gases
· Dissipative quantum and classical systems
December 11th, 2008 | Posted in Exploratory Workshop, I2CAM, News and Announcements, Events
Location: Paris, France (University of Florida Paris Research Center in Reid Hall)
Organizers: Julien Bobroff, Orsay; B. Andersen, N. Bohr Institute; P. Hirschfeld, University of Florida; C. Panagopoulos, Univ. of Cambridge and Univ. of Crete; C. Proust, CNRS-Toulouse
The University of Florida’s Paris Research Center is centrally located at the heart of Paris’s Montparnasse district and a few blocks from the Latin Quarter, in Columbia University’s Reid Hall, and has reading rooms, interaction rooms, and a small auditorium seating up to 90 people. For more information see http://www.clas.ufl.edu/PRC/about.shtml
December 11th, 2008 | Posted in Symposium, I2CAM, News and Announcements, Events
Past Announcements & News
May 18-23, 2009, Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
December 11th, 2008 | Posted in Symposium, I2CAM, News and Announcements, Events
May 20-23, 2009, Soft Active Materials
December 11th, 2008 | Posted in Exploratory Workshop, ICAM, News and Announcements, Events
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December 7th, 2007 | Posted in News and Announcements
