Dear Colleagues,

This is the first announcement of the Lake Como Workshop

"Quantitative Laws II: From physiology to ecology, from interaction structures to collective behavior"

to be held on June 13th - June 25th, 2016, at Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.

SUBMISSIONS AND APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW.

For submission of abstracts, deadlines and other information, see the conference website at

http://qlsb.lakecomoschool.org/

Please help us spreading word of this workshop to any colleagues you know might be interested, and bring this announcement to the attention of students and post-docs. (Apologies if you receive this multiply.)

Confirmed Invited speakers:

Rosalind Allen (Edinburgh University) Marc Barthelemy (CEA-Saclay) William Bialek (Princeton University) Naama Brenner (Technion Haifa) Antonio Celani (ICTP Trieste) Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge) Andrea de Martino (CNR/NANOTECH Italy) Kevin Dorfman (CEMS, University of Minnesota) Hans Herrmann (ETH Zurich) Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo) Edo Kussell (New York University) Amos Maritan (University of Padova) Matteo Marsili (ICTP Trieste) Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Namiko Mitarai (University of Copenhagen) Miguel A. Muñoz (Universidad de Granada) Thierry Mora (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) Todd Parsons (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) Chris Quince (University of Glasgow) Bianca Sclavi (Ecole Normale de Cachan, Paris) Kim Sneppen (University of Copenhagen) Sander Tans (AMOLF Amsterdam) Guido Tiana (University of Milan) Remco van der Hofstad (Eindhoven University of Technology) Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum Basel) Sven van Teeffelen (Pasteur Institute) Aleksandra Walczak (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) Joshua Weitz (Georgia Tech)

Best Regards,

The organising committee:

Federico Bassetti Fabrizio Capuani Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino Marco Gherardi Matteo Osella