We are pleased to announce the 3rd Workshop on the Physics of Excitable Media (POEM) — an interdisciplinary meeting focused on the principles of excitability in both living systems (e.g., nerves, muscles, plants) and nonliving materials (e.g., chemical reactions, gels, membranes).

Topics include:

• Fundamentals of action potentials: gaps, questions, and predictions 
• Membrane and cytoskeleton during action potential propagation
• Effects of drugs and medical relevance from physics point of view
• Information encoding and computation with pulses
• Nonlinear acoustics
• Lipids and macromolecules: the cellular building blocks