ICAM - I2CAM Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

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

First Annual Greater Boston Area Quantum Matter Meeting, May 10, 2008

The goal of this meeting is to provide an informal and supportive forum for discussing research on quantum systems: strongly correlated systems, atomic and optical systems, and mesoscopics. All students, postdocs, and faculty are encouraged to give a talk — discussion of work in progress and incompletely-formed ideas is welcome.

The meeting will be held at the Harvard physics department, in Room 250 of the Jefferson building near Harvard square. There will be refreshments from 9:00 to 9:30, and the first session will start at 9:30 am.

This meeting is modeled after the Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, which is held in the fall, and is now in its ninth year.
More info on the event can be found at: Harvard Physics Website

May 7th, 2008 | Posted in ICAM, News and Announcements, Events

LC2CAM Workshop Registration now open.

Boulder Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials will take place on August 7 - 10, 2008 in Boulder, CO. More information and registration is available on the workshop website at: http://icam-i2cam.org/conference/lc2cam08/

March 5th, 2008 | Posted in News and Announcements