Subject: Boletín AFA-BA 26/12.

From: "AFA Filial Buenos Aires" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:59:16 -0300

Resumen:

- Beca doctoral en Barcelona.
- BECA ANPCyT (Materiales Nanoestructurados)
- Workshop on electronic structure
  11-22/06/2007 - Zacatecas, Mexico

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Beca Doctoral en Barcelona.
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Proyecto del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia español: ORDEN (Orden,
Ruido y Dinamicas Emergentes bajo Nolinealidades)
Referencia del Ministerio: FIS2006-11452-C03-03
Persona de contacto: Jordi Garcia Ojalvo ([email-masked])

Descripción en castellano
Tema de la beca: Dinàmica no lineal de redes de regulación genéticas
Resumen: El/la estudiante desarrollará models teóricos de diversos tipos
de módulos de regulación genética, y analizará su comportamiento en
presencia de no-linealidades, ruido y acoplamiento inter-celular. Los
fenómenos que se estudiarán incluirán oscilaciones en la expression de
proteinas, diferenciación celular y sincronización en sistemas
multicelulares. La tesis se llevará a cabo en estrecha colaboración con
experimentos. Más información sobre las actividades del grupo en
http://www.fen.upc.edu/users/ojalvo

Descripción en inglés
Topic: Nonlinear dynamics of gene regulation networks
Summary: The student will develop theoretical models of various types of
gene regulation motifs, and will analyze their behavior in the presence
of nonlinearities, noise and inter-cell coupling. The phenomena to be
studied will include oscillations in protein expression, cell
differentiation and synchronization in multicellular systems. The work
will be done in close collaboration with experiments. More information
about the group's activities in http://www.fen.upc.edu/users/ojalvo

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Beca  ANPCyT (Materiales Nanoestructurados)

En el marco del PICT 25834 (Materiales poliméricos reforzados con 
nanocargas)

Lugar de Trabajo: Lab. de Polímetros y Materiales Compuestos. Dep. de 
Física-
FCEN-UBA

Director: Dra. Silvia Goyanes ([email-masked])

Requerimientos: Licenciado en Física, Química o Ing. En Materiales

Cierre de inscripción 5 de enero de 2007

Inicio de Actividad: 1 de Febrero de 2007

Monto $ 1400 mensuales

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Workshop on electronic structure

Dear Colleague:

We would like to invite you to encourage your students and postdoctoral
fellows to participate in the Pan American Advance Study Institute on
?Electronic States and Excitations on Nanostructures?, to be held in
Zacatecas, Mexico between June 11 and June 22, 2007.

The US National Science Foundation generously sponsors the event, which
includes support for local expenses of some participating students and
young scientists.

We attach below a printable brochure describing this activity. We would
appreciate it if you would print and post it, or otherwise distribute
this to all scientists that may be interested in electronic structure
and/or nanostructures at your institution or elsewhere, especially those
collaborating or with contacts in Latin America.

The list of confirmed speakers includes:

Roberto Car, Princeton University
David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Emilio Artacho, Cambridge University, UK
Angel Rubio, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Sergej Savrasov, UC Davis
Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University
Richard Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana
Annabella Selloni, Princeton University
Kieron Burke, Rutgers University
Roberto Dovesi, Torino University, Italy
Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin
Ivan Schuller, UC San Diego
Saw Hla, Ohio University
Giacinto Scoles, Princeton University
Jan Jensen, University of Copenhagen
Nicola Spaldin, UC Santa Barbara
Karen Hallberg, CNEA Bariloche, Argentina

Additional information can be found on the web page of the event:
qro.cinvestav.mx/~pasi2007
or you can contact directly the organizers to [email-masked]

Please alert prospective participants that they should present a poster
on their ongoing work, and that the deadline to request support is March
16, 2007.

We hope you and your students can participate in this unique opportunity.

Best,

PASI-Zacatecas Local Committee:
Rumen Ivanov, UAZ
Aldo Romero, CINVESTAV
Noboru Takeuchi, UNAM
Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University
Alberto Vela, UNAM
Stoyan Vlaev, UAZ