Statistical Physics of Living Systems
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 17446
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistical mechanics; biological physics; ecology; complex systems; neuroscience
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Dear Colleagues,
Possibly more than any other branch of Physics, Statistical Physics has greatly contributed to problems beyond the traditional boundaries of the physical sciences with a return in terms of new ideas, concepts, and models. Over the past few decades, the concepts and methods of Statistical Physics have found widespread application in biology, providing a complementing approach to more traditional, reductionist approaches. Such a holistic approach is particularly suited for understanding emergent phenomena in ecology, evolution, behavior, neuroscience, and beyond. In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that apply Statistical Physics thinking to the description of living systems, from the molecular to the ecosystem scale. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary works, possibly merging theory, experiments, and biological data sets.
Prof. Amos Maritan
Dr. Andrea Giometto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biological systems
- Ecological systems
- Emergent behavior
- Criticality
- Population and community dynamics
- Fluctuations
- Microbial interactions
- Neural and brain modeling
- Population genetics
- Statistical mechanics