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align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">School on the
Origins of Life, Behavior and Cognition</span></b></p>
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align="center"><b>March 10-21, 2025</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in;
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align="center"><b>ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil</b></p>
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align="center"><b><i>Application Deadline:</i> December 28, 2024</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">School on Origins is an
interdisciplinary school that tackles the foundational questions
concerning the origins of biophysical systems which include but
are not limited to : molecular, cellular, neural and behavioral
systems. We aim to find principles shared across systems using
tools from statistical physics, mathematical analysis and
numerical simulations to explore these questions. We have
invited researchers that work both on the experimental and
theoretical side to cover a variety of biophysical systems and
theoretical approaches. The school is aimed at graduate students
either at the master’s or PhD level who have a strong
quantitative background and a keen interest to pursue
interdisciplinary research.</p>
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font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We invite students pursuing
degrees in physics, computer science, engineering, or
mathematics. Those pursuing degrees in biology need to provide
evidence of strong and extensive quantitative background in
topics such as calculus, dynamical systems and numerical
programming.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>There is no registration
fee and limited funds are available for travel and local
expenses.</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Organizers:</b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Ahmed El Hady</b> (Cluster
of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective
Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Germany.)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Antonio C. Roque</b> (USP
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Daniel Y. Takahashi</b> (UFRN,
Brazil)</li>
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font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Lecturers:</b></p>
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font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Suzanne Still</b> (University
of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Randall Beer</b> (Indiana
University Bloomington, USA)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Asif Ghazanfar</b> (Princeton
University, USA)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Don Katz</b> (Brandeis
University, USA)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Gandhimohan M.
Viswanathan</b> (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
– UFRN, Brazil)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Bruno Mota</b> (Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Ana Amador</b> (University
of Buenos Aires, Argentina ) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">All details and application
procedure can be found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ictp-saifr.org/solbc2025/">https://www.ictp-saifr.org/solbc2025/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">All the best, <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ahmed El Hady</p>
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Ahmed El Hady<br>
Research Group Leader <br>
Cluster for Advanced Study of Collective Behavior<br>
University of Konstanz / Max Planck Institute of Animal
Behavior<br>
Universitätsstraße 10, 78464 Konstanz<br>
Room ZT 907<br>
Postbox 687<br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Tel.: +49 7531 88-4742</span> </div>
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