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align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">School on the
Origins of Life, Behavior and Cognition</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in;
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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> January 5, 2025</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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt;
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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