Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 24, 2018

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Georgia Institute of Technology
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The way physics is married to math, a new national project attempts to bring math together with biology.

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A new national project, which includes the Georgia Institute of Technology, aims to convey the benefits of physics’ age-old intertwining with math upon biology, a science historically less connected with it.

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• Mathematicians and bioscientists collaborate in new NSF-Simons project
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A new national project, which includes the Georgia Institute of Technology, aims to convey the benefits of physics’ age-old intertwining with math upon biology, a science historically less connected with it. The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation have launched four centers to do this, funded with $40 million, one of which is headquartered at Georgia Tech and will receive a quarter of the funding.

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Bioengineering and Bioscience

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mathematics, Biology, biosciences, phenotype, genotype, canalization, National Science Foundation, SCMB, Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology, NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems, combinatorics, Graph Theory

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• Created By: Ben Brumfield
• Workflow Status: Published
• Created On: May 24, 2018 - 11:09am
• Last Updated: May 30, 2018 - 9:23am