World Association of Young Scientists

A recent preprint describes two kinds of phenomena in terms of coupled threshold oscillators - earthquakes and epileptic seizures. It turns out that methods developed for earthquake prediction may become useful in predicting seizures:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3929 .

Besides, it may be a good starting point to discuss the interdisciplinary aspects of basic and applied research, e.g. how to write or to review grant proposals on cross-disciplinary topics.