The Future of the Physics of Life
Thu, Jun 16
|Amsterdam
Visit the website: https://amolf.nl/the-future-of-the-physics-of-life
Time & Location
Jun 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – Jun 17, 2022, 11:00 PM
Amsterdam, AMOLF, 1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
About The Event
https://amolf.nl/the-future-of-the-physics-of-life
The interface between physics and biology has seen tremendous growth in the last 20 years. New techniques, such as single-cell/single-molecule imaging and highthroughput sequencing, have made it possible to generate data on an unprecedented scale. These technological developments are paralleled by theoretical advances. Concepts from physics such as fluctuations, phase separation and criticality have been invoked to explain the design of biological systems.
Techniques from mathematics and computer science such as machine learning and Bayesian modelling are increasingly being applied to analyze experimental data. These trends have swept across the diverse research fields across the now extremely broad interface between physics and biology, ranging from microbiology, cellular/developmental biology, immunology, to neuroscience.
And yet, we have arrived at a crossroads. A pressing question is whether the future of experiment-theory interactions will be a continuation of the existing approaches, or whether fundamentally new routes will be taken. As we enter this…