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/


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.”


Past Announcements & News

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!


2009 ICAM-I2CAM Cargese Summer Workshop


June 30-July 3, 2009, Emergence of Inhomogeneous Phases in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems


Cuprate Fermiology Presentations


July 6-24, 2009, Non-Equilibrium Physics from Classical to Quantum Low Dimensional Systems


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


May 18-21, 2009, Soft Active Materials


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