[alife] LAST reminder: Gordon meeting- Origins of Life (Texas, January 2016)

[Omer Markovitch]

Registration is almost closing for the Gordon Research Conference and
Seminar: Origins of Life (GRC & GRS).
Programs are available online.

​The research required to understand life's origins occurs at a point where
multiple scientific disciplines meet. Chemists, biologists, physicists,
geoscientists, planetary scientists, astronomers, meteoriticists,
mathematicians and computer scientists are among those contributing to
progress. Combining the findings of each discipline into a composite
narrative produces multidisciplinary science. The origins research
community has come far in this endeavor. More challenging is to extend
these connections into true interdisciplinarity, wherein the insights of
one research community influence the interpretation of data and questions
being asked by others.

The forthcoming Gordon Research Conference will explore this transition,
from multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity. It will visit the
traditional array of topics, from LUCA to the non living universe. It will
emphasize, however, speakers whose work crosses traditional disciplinary
boundaries. It will create spaces where scientists from different
disciplines are challenged to build bridges of knowledge between their
respective areas of expertise. The GRC will integrate with the preceding
GRS (Gordon Research Seminar) by asking the latter to report forwards where
they see important, emerging connections - in presentations, discussion
panels and questions to the conference.

January 16-17 & 17-22, 2016. Galveston, Texas.
Support is available, particularly for young & early-career scientists.
GRS homepage: ​(Omer Markovitch, chair):
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=17244
GRC homepage (Stephan Freeland, chair):
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=14007

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Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems (ICOS) research group,
School of Computing Science,
Newcastle University, UK
http://sites.google.com/site/omermar  ​