UPCOMING EVENTS
AI+Energy Workshop
September 3-5, 2025 | London, UK
2025 IPoLS Annual Meeting
July 28-Aug 1, 2025 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PoLS-T Network: High School Physics Education Monthly Speaker Series
Virtual and Hosted by Harvard University
PAST EVENTS
2024 International Summer School & Genome Architecture and Function Workshop
July 8-12, 2024 | Boston, MA
Hosted by Northeastern University
2024 IPoLS Annual Meeting
June 3-7 | Trieste, Italy
Life in the Universe II
September 12 – 15, 2023 | Cambridge, MA
2023 IPoLS Annual Meeting
August 1-4 | Georgia Tech
Life in the Universe Workshop
October 24 – 28, 2022 | Sofia, Bulgaria
PoLS-T Summer Workshop
July 12 – 14, 2022 | Harvard – Cambridge, MA
International Summer School & Genome Architecture and Function Workshop
July 6 – 8, 2022 | MIT – Cambridge, MA
Foundations of Machine Learning and its Applications for Scientific Discovery in Physical and Biological Systems Workshop
June 23 – 24, 2022 | Hosted by Rice University
Physical Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease Workshop
June 20 – 21, 2022 | Hosted by Rice University
2021 iPoLS Annual Meeting
May 31 – June 3, 2022 | Montpellier, France
PoLS-T Network: Annual Conference | VIRTUAL
June 29 – July 1, 2021 | Hosted by Harvard University
2021 iPoLS Education Meeting: Black in iPoLS
March 12 – 13, 2021
Building a Network to Support and Improve High-School Physics Education
July 13 – 17, 2020 | Harvard University | VIRTUAL
PoLS Summer School Canceled
Theoretical Methods in the Physics of Living Systems
July 20 – 27, 2020 | University of Maryland, College Park
This year’s topic is ‘Convergence of Machine Learning and Quantitative Modeling in Biology.’
Genome Architecture and Function Virtual Workshop
June 15-18, 2020 | MIT | VIRTUAL
iPoLS Annual Meeting
June 8-12, 2020 | Georgia Tech | VIRTUAL
Workshop: Convergent Paths towards Universality in Complex Systems
December 5-6, 2019 | Santa Fe Institute | Alexandria, VA
Genome Architecture and Dynamics Workshop and International Summer School
July 12-19, 2019 | Rice University | Varna, Bulgaria
IPoLS Annual Meeting
July 8-11, 2019 | Munich, Germany
Physics of Living Systems Education Meeting
March 1, 2019 | Baltimore, MD
Hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Johns Hopkins University
Workshop: Quantum Biology and Quantum Processes in Biology
November 26-27, 2018 | Johns Hopkins University | Tysons Corner, VA
Workshop: Integrating Neurophotonics, Statistical Physics, and Control Theory for Advancing Neuroscience
October 22-23, 2018 | Boston University | Alexandria, VA
2018 Physics of Living Systems Annual Meeting
June 22-26, 2018 | Houston, TX
Workshop: Synthetic and Artificial Cells
May 14-15, 2018 | Rice University | Alexandria, VA
Workshop: Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer Immunotherapies
October 7-8, 2016 | Rice University |Tysons Corner, VA
IPoLS 2016 Annual Meeting
July 24-27, 2016 | Cambridge, MA
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Center for the Physics of Living Cells Summer School
July 24-30, 2016 | Urbana, IL
Hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Focused Summer Lectures
August 8-12, 2016 | Los Alamos, NM
Hosted by Los Alamos National Labs
Workshop: Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer Immunotherapies
October 8-9, 2016 | Rice University | Tysons Corner, VA
Hosted by Rice University
Focused Summer Lectures
August 8-12, 2016 | Los Alamos, NM
Hosted by Los Alamos National Labs
IPoLS 2016 Annual Meeting
July 24-27, 2016 | Cambridge, MA
Hosted by Harvard University
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Center for the Physics of Living Cells Summer School
July 24-30, 2016 | Urbana, IL
Hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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WORKSHOP: Modeling and Dynamics in Molecular Biophysics
January 27-28, 2016
Organizers
José Onuchic, Rice University
Joan-Emma Shea, University of California, Santa Barbara
WORKSHOP: Design Principles for Engineering Biology
November 11-12, 2015 | Tysons Corner, VA (DC Metro)
Workshop Organizers
Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
Ken A. Dill, Stony Brook University
Eberhard Voit, Georgia Institute of Technology
Erel Levine, Harvard University
iPoLS Conference 2015
July 17-20, 2015
Workshop Organizer
Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland
WORKSHOP: Physics of Wear, Tear, Aging and Failure in Living and Nonliving Systems
May 7-8, 2015
Workshop Organizers
Walter Bortz, Stanford University
Leonard Hayflick, University of California, San Francisco
Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Laughlin, Stanford University
Arnold Levine, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Herbert Levine, Rice University
James L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Workshop Funders
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
Physical, Engineering and Biological Limits of Brain Measurements
May 30-31, 2014—Arlington, Virginia
Workshop Organizers
Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University
Peter Littlewood, ANL/University of Chicago
Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor
Connecting the Biological and Physical Principles of Mammalian Aging
Talk Video
May 15-16, 2014—Arlington, Virginia
Workshop Organizers
Robert Laughlin, Stanford University
Herbert Levine, Rice University
Jerry Shay, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute
Design, Engineering and Selection of Novel Proteins
May 12-13, 2014—Arlington, Virginia
Workshop Organizer
Michael Hecht, University of North Carolina
Quantitative Theories of Learning, Memory, and Prediction
May 8-9, 2014—Arlington, Virginia
Workshop Organizers
Danielle Bassett, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Kopell, Boston University
William Bialek, Princeton University
The Physical Principles of Human Cancer Imaging Workshop
November 4-5, 2013—Boston, MA
Cell Decision Making Workshop
June 10-11, 2013—Arlington, VA
Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function
Workshop
May 6-7, 2013—Arlington, VA
Workshop Video NOW AVAILABLE
Physics and Cancer II: Theoretical Foundations of Drug and Immune Resistance in Cancer
November 12-14, 2012
Locomotion Systems Science Workshop
May 29-31, 2012—Arlington, VA
Workshop Report Summary
Physics of Cancer Metastasis Workshop
November 1-2, 2010