Melik Demirel, assistant professor and Pearce Development Professor is a co-sponsor of "Biological Inspired Nanomaterials: A cross-disciplinary ICAM (Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter) workshop scheduled for November 12-15, 2005, at the Penn Stater Conference Hotel.

ICAM is an open distributed experiment-driven multi-institutional partnership, whose scientific agenda is to identify major new research themes in complex adaptive matter, and to nucleate and conduct collaborative research and scientific training that draws from the chemical, physical and biological viewpoint on these themes. A web site for ICAM workshop actives has been formed.