1998 Sigtuna Workshop on Fluctuations

[Hans Liljenstrm]

               2nd announcement and call for participation
                         Third Sigtuna Workshop
                   Random Events in Biological Systems
                      Sigtuna, Sweden 3-5 Sep 1998
                  organized by the Agora for Biosystems

Objectives
In this meeting we wish to address questions concerning various forms of
fluctuations and disorder in biological systems. By bringing together
experimentalists and theoreticians with knowledge and insights from
different disciplines, such as biology, physics, and computer science,
we hope to shed more light on problems, which we think are profound for
understanding the phenomenon of life. Topics will include
synchronization, oscillations, chaos, noise, and stochastic resonance in
e.g. the origin and evolution of life, biomolecular kinetics, neural
information processing, and organ system functioning. Both experimental
data and theory from the frontiers of science will be discussed.

A number of invited speakers will provide presentations on the
fundamental problems, but we invite further contributions, in the form
of short lectures, computer demonstrations and posters. In order to
maintain a close contact between all participants, and to provide an
efficient workshop atmosphere, the number of participants will be
limited to approximately forty people.

The location of the workshop is at a unique guest house in Sigtuna, a
royal town in the early Middle Ages. Situated at the shore of the
beautiful lake M=E4laren, Sigtuna is only 15 km away from the Stockholm
airport and 45 km from downtown Stockholm. It is also close to the city
of Uppsala. The total cost, including accomodation, all meals and
registration fee is 3000 SEK (approx 375 USD).

Call for submissions:
A small number of contributed talks will be organized. Interested
participants are asked to submit by email a title and abstract to any of
the organizers, by July 15, 1998.

Organizing committee:
Hans Liljenstr=F6m, Dept. of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm
Peter =C5rhem, Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm
Clas Blomberg, Dept. of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm
(All also affiliated with the Agora for Biosystems)

Confirmed invited speakers:
Agnes Babloyantz, Dept of Chemical Physics, Free University of Brussels,
Belgium
Hans Braun, Institute of Physiology, University of Marburg, Germany
Jarl-Thure Eriksson, Laboratory of Electricity, Technical University of
Tampere, Finland
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
Hermann Haken, Institut f=FCr Theoret. Physik und Synergetik, Universitet
Stuttgart, Germany
John Hertz, Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark
Amit Manwani, Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech, Pasadena,
USA
Michael Mackey, Dept. of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Frank Moss, Dept. of Physics, University of Missouri, St Louis, USA
Erik Mosekilde, Dept of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

Sakire P=F6gun, Center for Brain Research, Ege University, Turkey
J=F6rg Stucki, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland
E=F6rs Szathmary, Collegium Budapest, Hungary
Peter Wolynes, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of  Indiana, Urbana

For further information, please see our web site,
http://www.theophys.kth.se/~hali/agora/sigtuna98,
or contact

Hans Liljenstr=F6m
Theoretical Biophysics Group
Dept. of Physics
Royal Institute of Technology
S-100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN

Email:  hali at theophys.kth.se
Phone:  +46-(0)8-790 9423
Fax: +46-(0)8-10 48 79

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please fill in
and return the pre-registration form below.

                        1998 Sigtuna Workshop on
                   RANDOM EVENTS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
                            Pre-Registration
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                DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JULY 15, 1998
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