On January 14-17, 2008, Professor Melik Demirel gave an invited talk at the ICAM Annual Conference at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The talk was entitled “Scaling Concepts in Structured Polymer Growth.” Prof. Demirel is a former fellow of Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) where his research is funded partially through ICAM-I2CAM.

Additionally, Prof. Demirel is going to co-organize an international workshop supported by I2CAM. The aim of the workshop is to study the fundamental principles of biological macromolecules (e.g. proteins, dna) and synthetic polymers (e.g. brushes, fibers) that have emergent properties from their structure rather than exclusively from their composition. This I2CAM meeting will be held in Turkey with Sabanci University as a partner.

Funding is available for junior scientist, postdocs and graduate students. Please contact Prof. Demirel for further information