The workshop's aim is to explore how physicists should think about cancer, and whether there are principles at the level of molecules, single cells or cell populations that form a core of understanding.

 

Synopsis

Despite decades of ongoing research, cancer remains a serious health burden and a major scientific puzzle. The search for new approaches to cancer research has generated interest among engineers, programmers and computer scientists. Among the growing influx of computational and engineering methods, it may be unclear what physicists have to offer. And methods are not what they offer. Rather, they offer entirely new perspectives and questions arising from a quest for principles.