History
The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM), an open distributed experiment-based dynamic multi-institutional partnership whose purpose is to identify major new research themes in complex adaptive matter and to nucleate and conduct collaborative research and scientific training that draws from the chemical, physical and biological viewpoint on these themes. Established in March 1999, ICAM became, in April 2002, a Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University of California. ICAM's integrated scientific and educational program includes exploratory workshops, symposia, fellowships, research and educational networks. It has a well-developed communication, governance and advisory structure for its branches. Each of these represents in turn an interdisciplinary grouping at the local level — from materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology, from theory and experiment. ICAM received early support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the University of California Office of the President, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Its current activities are supported by the National Science Foundation, the Richard P. Lounsbery Foundation, and dues from its branch members.The International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I 2CAM) was funded as an International Materials Research Insitute by the National Science Foundation on July 31, 2004, and serves as the international arm of ICAM.
