Title: Self Organization and Cancer Attractor

Speaker: Haiyan Zhou (Zhejiang University)

Date & Time: 19 October 2015 (Monday), 14:00-16:00

Place: Seminar room 259, Main Teaching Building, Xixi campus, Zhejiang University

Abstract: Self organization is a process where some form of overall order arises out of the local strong interaction (involving positive and negative feedback) between components of an initially disordered system. The phenomena exist in fields from physics, chemistry, biology to economics, etc.

This presentation will give a brief introduction to the theory of self organization and chaos related, as well as the fractals (may not be too professional, because the work is mostly based on the speaker’s undergraduate course graduation thesis.), and introduce the hypothesis of cancer attractor which is somewhat an analogy to the landscape illustration of self organization. If you are interested in more, you can download reading materials below. The draft may be uploaded later.

Reading material: 混沌与分形浅谈-钟云霄编著

Cancer attractors A systems view of tumors from a gene network dynamics and developmental perspective(p3.3.cell types & p4.figures2)