Workshop on Opportunities in Biological Physics

March 12, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Organized by APS Division of Biological Physics

Biology is a rapidly changing field that has been making tremendous strides forward in recent years. Biology is changing from a descriptive to a quantitative and conceptually profound field.  This workshop will showcase a sample of the rich opportunities in biology for physicists. It is aimed at physicists, especially graduate students and post-docs, who are curious about how a background in physics can provide a unique perspective of biological systems. We believe that physicists will make a substantial contribution to this revolution by working together with biologists.

Invited Speakers

William Bialek
Princeton

Robijn Bruinsma
UCLA

Hans Frauenfelder
Los Alamos

Klaus Lehnertz
Bonn

Yale Goldman
Penn

Charles Stevens
Salk Institute

Zuzanna Siwy
Irvine

Sunney Xie
Harvard

Co-Chairs of the Steering Committee

Dean Astumian, DBP Vice-Chair
Clare Yu

Members of the Steering Committee

Shirley Chan, DBP Secretary-Treasurer
Ken Cole, APS Liaison
Harold Craighead
Hans Frauenfelder
Marilyn Gunner, DBP Chair-Elect
Steve Hagen, DBP Member-at-Large
Peter Jung, DBP Chair
Herbert Levine, DBP Member-at-Large
Heiner Linke
Denis Rousseau, DBP Past-Chair
Zuzanna Siwy
Xiaowei Zhuang

Financial Support Provided By:

National Science Foundation (NSF)
International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter(I2CAM)
University of California, Irvine Institute of Complex Adaptive Matter (UCI-ICAM)
Institute of Physics (IOP)