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Quantitative Life Sciences

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The progressive integration of a wide range of different disciplines - including physics, statistics, information theory, biochemistry, genetics and medicine, population genetics and game theory - and increased availability of quantitative data has led to major advances in most diverse domains of life sciences, from molecular and cell biology to terrestrial and oceanic ecology, economics and quantitative finance. The integration process between disciplines has led to the consolidation of a new research domain, which we describe as ‘quantitative life sciences’ to provide a sense of its breadth. Detailed information...

News

21 Jul 2020

Complex Phenomena Abound

Exploring genes & pandemic spread through physics

10 Jul 2020

Scientists Pivot to Meeting Pandemic Challenges

QLS Staff Research Associate Mahesh Bandi featured in PhysicsToday

1 Jul 2020

QLS Postdoctoral Fellowships

Starting Fall 2020; apply by 15 August

6 May 2020

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19

24 Apr 2020

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Dr. Luca Ferretti gives ICTP-SISSA Colloquium 24 April

6 Apr 2020

Science for Policy

ICTP on regional COVID data task force informing policymakers

2 Mar 2020

ICTP's 2020 Dirac Medal

Nomination deadline 30 June

28 Feb 2020

Updated 14 March: Suspension of Educational Activities

ICTP takes COVID-19 precautions

27 Jan 2020

Salam Distinguished Lectures 2020

Marc Mézard to speak on artificial intelligence, statistical physics

8 Nov 2019

QLS Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship

Starting Spring 2020

Seminars

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Europe/Rome 2020-11-02 07:00:00 2020-11-13 21:00:00 School on Collective Animal Behaviour *POSTPONED* | (smr 3432) Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx The School has been POSTPONED TO 2 - 13 NOVEMBER 2020 Collective behavior is a distinctive trait of human and animal societies. The School aims at providing a thorough introduction to basic notions and advanced topics in this subject from the viewpoints of physics, biology, computer science and robotics. Provisional list of Speakers: Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz Deborah Gordon, Stanford University Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University, New York Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico David Sumpter, University of Uppsala Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, Toulouse Havana - Cuba ICTP pio@ictp.it 2 Nov 2020 - 13 Nov 2020

» School on Collective Animal Behaviour *POSTPONED* | (smr 3432)

Europe/Rome 2020-11-30 07:00:00 2020-12-18 21:00:00 Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Quantitative Approaches in Ecosystem Ecology | (smr 3486) *** VIRTUAL on ZOOM *** The Winter School on Quantitative System Biology has been held every year since 2012 at ICTP in Trieste, Italy and ICTS in Bangalore, India in alternating years. The topic of the 2020 School is Ecosystems Ecology, with a special focus on quantitative methods and modelling techniques. Ecology views biological systems as composed of many interdependent parts, whose interactions between themselves and the environment span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales (from cells to the biosphere). This incredible complexity of interactions parallels often with the simplicity of emergent statistical patterns of abundance and biodiversity, as well as nutrient cycling. Describing quantitatively the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems requires therefore a broad range of mathematical and modelling techniques. Thanks to new experimental and sequencing techniques, community and ecosystem ecology are experiencing a revolution, as they are transitioning from a traditionally data-poor discipline to a data-rich one. This change presents new challenges and new possibilities for ecologists, physicists, and mathematicians around the world. This advanced school will focus on ecosystems, and it aims at providing an integrated perspective of both experimental and theoretical approaches. The topics covered include: • Ecological networks; • Population and community dynamics; • Macroecology, including ecosystems and landscapes; • Ecological interactions; • Ecological Communities in-vitro. Ecology has extremely important applications, from environmental preservation to disease eradication. Most ecologists in the majority of developing countries have strong applied expertise, but they are not up to date with the most recent theoretical and quantitative tools and results. Applied ecologists, with some quantitative background, could strongly benefit from this school, both in terms of exposure to fundamental questions in ecology, and of quantitative methods that they could apply to their research. On the other hand, the strong expertise in quantitative and theoretical tools (e.g., dynamical systems theory, stochastic processes, random matrix theory) of physicists and mathematicians from developing countries is sometimes dissipated to study problems of secondary relevance. This school could offer them exposure to up-to-date problems in quantitative ecology, where those theoretical tools could find interesting and novel applications. Speakers (to be confirmed) Stefano Allesina The University of Chicago Daniel Fisher Stanford University Marino Gatto Politecnico, Milan Vishwesha Guttal IISc, Bangalore Sonia Kefi ISEM Montpellier Jonathan Levine Princeton University Michel Loreau CNRS Paris Amos Maritan University of Padua Mercedes Pascual The University of Chicago Andrea Rinaldo EPFL Alvaro Sanchez Yale University Daniel Segrè Boston University Carla Staver Yale University Justin Yeakel University of California, MERCED ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 30 Nov 2020 - 18 Dec 2020