The re-emergence of Machine Learning (ML) in the last decade has started to revolutionize the way we think about science, technology, and even our everyday lives. ML has rapidly become a significant part of research across all scientific areas, including the physical sciences. This school attempts to capture the recent excitement about ML in general and for biophysical and biomolecular systems in particular, addressing participants with various backgrounds ranging from biology or biotechnology to physics.

The school’s purpose is threefold: a) to provide a theoretical foundation from the physicists’ perspective, b) to cross-pollinate different theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches, and c) to develop an overarching perspective that would tie together the various phenomena from biomolecular simulation and electrostatic interactions on the molecular scale to collective behavior of macroscopic biological entities in a unified approach within an ML framework.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

This school will be preceded by the II Brazilian Workshop on Soft Matter from April 7-11.

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School on Origins is an interdisciplinary school that tackles the foundational questions concerning the origins of biophysical systems which include but are not limited to : molecular, cellular, neural and behavioral systems. We aim to find principles shared across systems using tools from statistical physics, mathematical analysis and numerical simulations to explore these questions. We have invited researchers that work both on the experimental and theoretical side to cover a variety of biophysical systems and theoretical approaches. The school is aimed at graduate students either at the master’s or PhD level who have a strong quantitative background and a keen interest to pursue interdisciplinary research.

We invite students pursuing degrees in physics, computer science, engineering, or mathematics. Those pursuing degrees in biology need to provide evidence of strong and extensive quantitative background in topics such as calculus, dynamical systems and numerical programming.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

More at: www.ictp-saifr.org

Through minicourses and research seminars and discussion sessions, this school and workshop will explore the fundamental physical principles that govern living systems across scales, from macromolecules to birds. Minicourse topics during the school will include:

Molecular and Cell Biophysics
Neurophysics
Dynamical Systems and Collective Motion
Machine Learning Tools for Biological Physics
The school is designed for graduate students interested in the intersection of physics and life sciences from a physics perspective. Leading experts will deliver in-depth lectures on cutting-edge experiments, theoretical frameworks, and emerging trends in the field.

Immediately following the school there will be a 3-day workshop with invited seminars by researchers from Latin America, as well as discussion sessions addressing how to build a network of biological physicists in the region.

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations during both the school and workshop.

There is no registration fee. Limited funding is available to support travel and local expenses for school participants and local expenses for workshop participants.

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Keynote Speakers

Réka Albert

Deepak Dhar

Mirta Galesic

Sarah Muldoon

Alessandro Vespignani

David Sloan Wilson

Important Dates

More  at: nerccs2025.github.io

February 19-21, 2025. Puerta de Toledo Campus, Carlos III University of Madrid

During the 2022 International Conference on Complex Systems held in Palma de Mallorca, the Complex Systems Society approved the creation of its Spanish Chapter .

The main objective of the Spanish Chapter is to bring together researchers in complex systems and other areas of potential interaction at an annual meeting held somewhere in Spain. The Chapter has held two meetings, the first in Santander in May 2023 and the second in Barcelona in February 2024 .

This 3rd meeting will take the form of a two-day workshop, starting on Wednesday, February 19 at 3:30 p.m. and ending on Friday, February 21 at 2 p.m. There will be approximately 5 invited talks (30 minutes each) and several contributed talks (15-20 minutes), plus a poster session.

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