Thanks! i'll be there. - Jan
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Stephen Guerin <[email protected]>wrote: > This should be a good talk and related to Stu's talk last year. > > ----------------- > > SPEAKER: Wim Hordjik > TITLE: Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life > > Today, 12 - 1p > Santa Fe Complex, Commons > 632 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe ABSTRACT: The origin of life is one of the > most fundamental, but also one of the most difficult problems in science. > Despite differences between various proposed scenarios, one common element > seems to be the emergence of an autocatalytic set or cycle at some stage. > However, there is still much disagreement as to how likely it is that such > self-sustaining sets could arise ``spontaneously''. This disagreement is > largely caused by the lack of mathematical models that can be formally > analyzed. In this talk, after a brief introduction of the origin of life > problem itself, I will introduce a formal framework of catalytic reaction > systems and autocatalytic sets, and then present both theoretical and > computational results which indicate that the emergence of autocatalytic > sets is highly likely, even for very moderate (and plausible) levels of > catalysis. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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