[alife] UCNC 2014 PROGRAM

Lila Kari lila.kari at uwo.ca
Mon May 12 12:03:23 PDT 2014


UCNC 2014 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

The 13th International Conference on
Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation (UCNC)
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
July 14-18, 2014

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014
http://www.facebook.com/UCNC2014
https://twitter.com/UCNC2014

The tentative program of UCNC 2014 is now available at
http://conferences.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014/timetable.php

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Yaakov Benenson (ETH Zurich) - "Molecular Computing Meets Synthetic Biology"
Charles Bennett (IBM Research) - "From Quantum Dynamics to Physical Complexity''
Hod Lipson (Cornell University) - "The Robotic Scientist"
Nadrian Seeman (New York University) - "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life"

INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Anne Condon (University of British Columbia) - "Programming with Biomolecules"
Ming Li (University of Waterloo) - "Approximating Semantics"
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University) - "Do We Compute to Live, or Live to Compute?"

WORKSHOP ON DNA COMPUTING BY SELF-ASSEMBLY - MAIN SPEAKERS

Scott Summers (University of Wisconsin) - ''Two Hands Are Better than One (in Self-Assembly)''
Damien Woods (Caltech) - ''Intrinsic Universality and the Computational Power of Self-Assembly''

WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE - MAIN SPEAKERS

William Cunningham (University of Toronto) - ''Computation in Affective Dynamics''
Randy McIntosh (Rotman Research Institute) - ''Building and Interacting with the Virtual Brain''

WORNSKHOP ON UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION IN EUROPE - MAIN SPEAKER

Ricard Sole (Univ. Pompeu Fabra) - ''Computation and the Major Synthetic Transitions in Artificial Evolution''

OVERVIEW

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 theoretical or
experimental results. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are:

* Molecular (DNA) computing, Quantum computing, Optical computing, Chaos computing,
Physarum computing, Hyperbolic space computation, Collision-based computing,
Super-Turing Computation;

* Cellular automata, Neural computation, Evolutionary computation, Swarm intelligence,
Ant algorithms, Artificial immune systems, Artificial life, Membrane computing,
Amorphous computing;

* Computational Systems Biology, Computational neuroscience, Synthetic biology,
Cellular (in vivo) computing.








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