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The ICAM Phenomenon

ICAM’s growth from 9 founding branches in the United States in 2002 to 32 US and 25 branches abroad (as of August 2008), has been accompanied by significant funding of its programs by its branch members, the National Science Foundation, the European Union, private foundations, and individuals. The attractiveness of ICAM stems from the bottom-up participation by leading international scientists and institutions in organizing a synergistic mix of cutting edge workshops, schools, junior and senior scientist fellowships, travel and exchange awards for young scientists, and novel science outreach projects in the areas of correlated electronic materials, soft condensed matter, and biological matter. Its branch member institutional supporting cost contributions make possible an adaptive and rapid response to new opportunities.

Branch Membership

*Branch member scientists play a leadership role in ICAM and I2CAM and have privileged access to all ICAM-sponsored activities. Each branch names one member to the ICAM Board of Governors, Science Steering Committee, and Fellow Selection committee, and is entitled to send at least two scientists to any ICAM-organized activity, and up to four representatives to the branch-members-only Annual Conference that brings together leading members of the ICAM community for 3 days each year. Participation by graduate students, postdocs, and junior staff in ICAM activities enables them to become connected to their counterparts at other branches and to gain international recognition.

* Only graduate students, postdoctoral, junior, and senior scientists at ICAM branches are eligible to apply for ICAM Fellowships that make it possible to carry out research at a second ICAM campus through a stipend that supplements existing support.

*The international component of ICAM, I2CAM (the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter) provides an unparalleled set of opportunities in Europe, the Mid-East, and Asia for both junior and senior researchers at ICAM branch member institutions. Junior researchers receive support to attend workshops and summer schools abroad and to visit and develop collaborations at leading overseas laboratories, while senior scientists receive support to initiate or expand collaborations with their colleagues at the forty-three overseas institutions presently affiliated with ICAM.

*Only branch members can host ICAM or I2CAM Exploratory Workshops for which ICAM provides up to $30,000 in external support. Hosting a workshop makes it easy for students and postdoctoral researchers on the campus to participate and obtain a sense of the opportunities that lie ahead for research and teaching in complex adaptive matter.

*Only branch members are eligible to join ICAM’s research networks.

*ICAM offers new modalities for enhancing cross-disciplinary research at a branch member campus. These include “worked” examples of mechanisms developed at other branches for organizing interdisciplinary research seminars and improving communication between scientists in different departments and colleges.

*Membership in ICAM’s global science education and outreach network, the Emergent Universe Alliance, offers a way to enhance substantially local campus outreach efforts through access to outreach materials developed and lessons learned at other ICAM institutions

Joining ICAM

For a major research institution, becoming an ICAM branch is easy. It requires a three-year commitment to membership that is accompanied either by an initial three-year institutional supporting cost-sharing contribution to ICAM of $25,000 or an agreement to send $10,000/yr for three years, and allocation of a matching amount at the branch for activities determined by the local scientists and administration. ICAM’s institutional supporting cost funds are used to support fellowships, workshops, outreach and a small part of its administrative costs.


North American Branches
Ames Lab
Boston College
Boston University
Cornell University
Florida State University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Kent State University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Louisana State University/Tulane University Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Ohio State University
Penn State University
Princeton University
Rice University
Rutgers University
Syracuse University
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland CNAM
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin

Asian Branches
Beijing / Xiamen Consortium
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
JNCASR Bangalore
Kyoto University
NanoBio Research Center, Seoul National University

South American Branches
FAPERJ

Australian Branches
University of Queensland, Australia

European Branches
Cologne/Bonn Consortium
Dutch Consortium
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
Grenoble
ICTP, Trieste
Karlsruhe Consortium
Leibniz Institute, Dresden
Max Planck Consortium
NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Nordic-Baltic Consortium
Paris Consortium
Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance/Bristol Consortium
University of Cambridge
University of Leipzig

Middle Eastern Branches
Israel Consortium

ICAM Affiliates
International School of Physics Erice

Partner Institutions
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal State Fresno
Florida A&M University
Jackson State University