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

Workshop Proposals due March 5



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

This is a series of meetings in the New York tri-state area.

  • April 9, 2010
  • November 19, 2010

Location: The New York Academy of Sciences

Organizers: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University and Paul Chaikin, New York University

The meeting in November 2009 has been archived for your viewing pleasure.


Past Announcements & News

Feb 11-14, 2010, Computational Materials and Methods


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


ICAM Annual Agenda and Release Form


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


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


Jan. 8-10, 2010, Memristors and Resistive Memories


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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