Slide title: Improve Understanding of Complex Principles of Self-organization

Slide images:
A still image from an animation showing two motorized nanocars on a gold surface (left); a collage of images comparing the simulation of a functioning ribosome that will be done on the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) computer to the simulation of a protein that can be done on a laptop computer (right); a scan of a human brain (bottom)

Credits: Yasuhiro Shirai, Rice University (left); Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mercury Cluster background image courtesy of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (right); MorgueFile (bottom)

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation