Abstract. The first “Information Engines” meeting will explore information processing on the nanoscale using recent innovations in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In addition, this working group will allow its PIs to begin planning (in concert with SFI) a substantial and likely impactful SFI international workshop on “Information Engines” for the summer of 2015. The intention is to bring together the top researchers in the areas of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics, including theorists and experimentalists.
The second “Control of Interdependent Networks” meeting will investigate the dynamics and control of multiple, cross-coupled networks. This working group is critical to this MURI’s cohesion, as we have a very disparate set of experts ranging from nanodevice engineering to nonlinear theory and from social network experimentalists to power grid and control theorists.