Spontaneous Order of Life II (1998)

[Benny Lautrup]

                           SUMMER SCHOOL

    The Second Copenhagen International Multidisciplinary School in the
                       Biological Sciences:

              The Spontaneous Order of Life (SOL`98)

             Self-Organized Criticality and Non-Linear
    Dynamics in Physical, Biological, Social and Economic Systems

      to be held  at the Niels Bohr Institute 10-19  August 1998

Topics include:

*The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
*Solving Problems with Collective, Distributed Self-Organizing Systems
*The Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Behavior in Animals
*The Technological and Commercial Perspectives of Applied Molecular
Evolution
*The Origin of Life from Interactions of Amino Acids and Membranes
*Cosmological Natural Selection


Confirmed Speakers:

Per Bak (Niels Bohr Institute)
Eric Bonabeau (Santa Fe Institute)
Stuart Kauffman(Santa Fe Institute)
Roger Penrose (Oxford)
Peter Schuster (Vienna)
Lee Smolin (Penna. State Univ.
Geoffrey West (Los Alamos)
Peter Wills (Santa Fe Institute)


International Advisory Committee:

Brian Goodwin  (Schumacher College)
Stuart Kauffman (Santa Fe Institute)
Roger Penrose (Oxford)

Local Organizing committee:

Per Bak (Niels Bohr Inst.)
Don Bennett (Niels Bohr Inst.)
Benny Lautrup  (Niels Bohr Inst.)
Erik Mosekilde (Tech. Univ. of Denmark)
Ole Mouritsen (Tech. Univ. of Denmark)
Holger Bech Nielsen (Niels Bohr Inst.)
Bjoern Quistorff (Univ. of Copenhagen)
Bodil Soegaard (Roy. Vet. & Agricult. Univ.)

For more information and to apply, please utilize the SOL`98 homepage at

                http://www.nbi.dk/~sol98

Support from the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study provides SOL`98
with a limited number of full grants that can be applied for primarily
by Scandinavian students.

For other attendees, there is a fee of 2500. DKR if registration and
remittance is  completed before June 15, 1998. After this date the fee
is 3000. DKR.

The  registration fee (included in a NorFA grant) includes lunches,
several working dinners, and copies of the three books:

Per Bak: How Nature Works
Lee Smolin: The Life of the Cosmos
Author & Book: To be announced

If you don't have access to the web, contact the SOL'98 Secretariat at

                         hnchristen at nbi.dk

                                or

                      telefax (+45) 35325400.