ICAM - I2CAM Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

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

ICAMNews April 2009 Edition Now Available

Read all the following articles at the ICAMNews website.

http://i2cam.org/icamnews/

June 30th, 2009 | Posted in Quarterly Newsletter, News and Announcements

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

David Pines will be awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D) by the University of St. Andrews next month-on June 25, 2009. Andy MacKenzie, who proposed Dr. Pines for this wonderful honor, writes that “ it is in recognition of your contributions to physics and of [his] work at the interfaces between science, international relations and policy.”

May 24th, 2009 | Posted in News and Announcements