[alife] Fwd: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation UCNC 2014

[C. Titus Brown]

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>                             UCNC 2014 -  CALL FOR PAPERS
>                            The 13th International Conference on 
>                  Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation 
>               University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
>                                       July 14-18, 2014      
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>                                http://www.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014 
> http://www.facebook.com/UCNC2014         https://twitter.com/UCNC2014
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>                          Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
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> OVERVIEW
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> The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation has 
> been a  meeting where scientists with different backgrounds, yet sharing a common interest 
> in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and the 
> computational aspects of processes taking place in nature, present their latest results. Papers
> and poster presentations are sought in all areas, theoretical or experimental, that relate to 
> unconventional computation and natural computation. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are:
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> * Molecular (DNA) computing, Quantum computing, Optical computing, Hypercomputation - 
> relativistic computation, Chaos computing, Physarum computing, Computation in hyperbolic 
> spaces, Collision-based computing, Computations beyond the Turing model;
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> * Cellular automata, Neural computation, Evolutionary computation, Swarm intelligence, 
> Ant algorithms, Artificial immune systems, Artificial life, Membrane computing, 
> Amorphous computing;
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> * Computational Systems Biology, Genetic networks, Protein-protein networks, Transport
> networks, Synthetic biology, Cellular (in vivo) computing.
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> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: See details on the above website which also contains
> information about important dates and committees.
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> INVITED SPEAKERS
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> Yaakov Benenson (ETH Zurich) - Synthetic Biology and Biomedicine
> Charles Bennett (IBM  Research) - Quantum Information and Computation
> Hod Lipson (Cornell University) -  "The Robotic Scientist"
> Nadrian Seeman (New York University) - "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life"
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> NVITED TUTORIALS
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> Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Canada) - "Programming with Biomolecules"
> Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)  - "Approximating  Semantics"
> Tommaso Toffoli  (Boston University, USA) - "Do we compute to live, or live to compute?"
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> WORKSHOPS
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> Computational Neuroscience - Organizer Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
> DNA Computing by Self-Assembly - Organizer Matthew Patitz  (University of Arkansas, USA) 
> Unconventional Computation in Europe - Organizers Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), 
>                             Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
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> PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
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>     Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
>     Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
>     Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
>     Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
>     Jose Felix Costa (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
>     Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
>     Alberto Dennunzio (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
>     Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
>     Jerome Durand-Lose (Universite d'Orleans, France)
>     Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
>     Oscar H. Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Co-Chair)
>     Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, Japan)
>     Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
>     Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada, Co-Chair)
>     Viv Kendon (University of Leeds, UK)
>     Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras, India)
>     Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
>     Yongli Mi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)    
>     Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
>     Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
>     Hava Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
>     Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
>     Damien Woods (California Institute of Technology, USA)
>     Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea)
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