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| Date: | 14.07.2003 to 27.07.2003 |
| Location: | Vienna Austria |
| Keywords: | Genetic research/engineering |
| Details: | A two-week hight-level summer course on questions about evolutionary aspects in physics and genetics from a comparative and interdisciplinary point of view. Our world is not static, as was the prevailing view in past ages - but dynamic. It evolves. This holds for the large-scale structures in the universe as well as for the biomolecules. The Summer University 2003 is devoted to the major scientific aspects of cosmological and biological evolution, the key ideas of which originated in the early decades of the previous century. The theory of general relativity revolutionized our view of the nature of space, time, and gravitation; and the neo-Darwinian synthesis merged genetics with the theory of natural selection. Both fields progressed enormously during the past forty years: the ?big bang? theory was dramatically confirmed by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and evolutionary biology linked up with genomics. Yet we still do not know the answer to some very basic questions concerning, for instance, the origin of life or the origin and ultimate fate of the universe. The lectures on cosmological evolution will explain the basic nature of general relativity, describe its implications for cosmology, and address recent developments in theoretical and observational cosmology. The lectures on biological evolution will concentrate on the major transitions, in particular prebiotic evolution, the origins of multicellularity, the role of sex and the emergence of social structures. Topics will include the principles of population genetics and ecological modelling, random drift and selection, competition and cooperation, and applications of game theory to population dynamics. |
| Organizer: | University of Vienna and Institute Vienna Circle , Vienna , Austria |
| Contact: | Prof. Friedrich Stadler Address: c/o Institute Vienna Circle Museumstraße 5/2/19 1070 Vienna Austria Tel: Fax: Email: Friedrich.Stadler@univie.ac.at |
| Webpage: | http://ivc.philo.at/VISU |
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