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Nov 29, 2022

Physics of Emergent Behaviour III: from origin of life to multicellularity, 2nd July 2021 (part 2)

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Workshop supported by the Imperial College Physics of Life Network of Excellence.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/physics-of-life/

In Part 2 of this thought-provoking conference, we discussed the emergence of order and multicellularity. Besides short talks delivered by esteemed international speakers from the interface of physics and biology, a significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to open discussion. This exciting meeting was supported by the “Physics of Life” Network of Excellence at Imperial College London and the Biological Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (IOP).

Emergence of order [Chair: Chiu Fan Lee]
1:25 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan (University of Chicago)
20:30 James Sethna (Cornell University)
42:16 Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
1:05:15 Panel discussion.

Cells and beyond [Chair: Hélène de Maleprade]
1:32:27 Ricard Solé (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies)
1:54:40 William Ratcliff (Georgia Tech)
2:16:57 Peter Yunker (Georgia Tech)
2:50:50 General Q&A
2:56:50 Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)
3:28:25 Closing of conference.

Organising committee:
Robert Endres (Imperial College London)
Chiu Fan Lee (Imperial College London)
Hélène de Maleprade (IRPHÉ, Marseille)
Sara Imari Walker (Arizona State University & Santa Fe Institute & Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

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