Elad Arad, Mingxin He, Ashley Shay, and Professor Oleg Gang present research at Mathematics of the Origin of Life and Self-Organized Complexity Workshop. The workshop brought together theorists and experimentalists interested in emergent complexity, specifically in the contexts of the origin of life, self-organization, and self-assembly. This workshop is unique in bringing together experts from traditionally separate fields that share common themes. While the origin of life has often been explored through prebiotic chemistry, this workshop will adopt a mathematical perspective, viewing life as a generic emergent phenomenon. This approach aligns it with studies of self-organization in materials and other complex systems, where defining and characterizing complexity is a unifying theme. We anticipate that this focus will attract mathematicians and computer scientists working on dynamical systems, graph theory, information processing, and mathematical measures of complexity.
Elad presented a poster on "Information editing enzymes for DNA reconfigurable architectures".
Ashley presented a poster on "Exploring cooperative multivalent binding motifs to enhance targeted surface attachment".
Mingxin gave an oral talk on "Studying water via interpenetrating network."