Unconventional Computation 2006

5th International Conference

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UC'06 schedule


Monday 4 September : tutorials

 K018: lecture theatre, BiologyM052: main seminar room, Biology
 8:30REGISTRATION
 9:30

Reaction-Diffusion Computers

Andrew Adamatzky, Benjamin De Lacy Costello, Tetsuya Asai

Randomness

Cristian S. Calude
12:30LUNCH
14:00

To Compute, or not to Compute

Christof Teuscher

Biomolecular Automata

Natasha Jonoska, Darko Stefanovic

17:00 

Tuesday 5 September : workshop and tutorials

 K018: main lecture theatre, BiologyM052: seminar room, Biology
 8:30REGISTRATION
 9:00

From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers ...

Quantum Computing

Viv Kendon
(TUTORIAL)
12:30LUNCH
14:00

... From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers

Brain Signal Analysis

José del R. Millán
(TUTORIAL)
17:00 
19:00WELCOME RECEPTION -- wine and nibbles -- King's Manor

Wednesday 6 September

8:30

 REGISTRATION

9:00

Opening

9:15Shigeru Ninagawa
1/f Noise in Elementary Cellular Automaton Rule 110
9:45Gerard Dreyfus
Graph Machines and Their Applications to Computer-Aided Drug Design
10:45BREAK
11:15H. Ramesh, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Raghavan Rama
On the Power of Bio-Turing Machines
11:45Yasuhiro Igarashia, Jerzy Gorecki, Joanna Natalia Gorecka
Chemical information processing devices constructed using a nonlinear medium with controlled excitability
12:15LUNCH
14:00Mónica Cardona, M. Angels Colomer, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Alba Zaragoza
Handling Markov Chains with Membrane Computing
14:30Damien Woods
Optical computing and computational complexity
15:30BREAK
16:15Natasha Jonoska, Gregory L. McColm
Flexible versus Rigid Tile Assembly
16:45Dylan A. Shell, Maja J. Matarić
Ergodic dynamics for large-scale distributed robot systems
17:15

Selim Akl and Joseph Akl
Presentation on Unconventional Computation 2007, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
 

 17:30 

Thursday 7 September

9:00 Shankara Narayanan Krishna
On Pure Catalytic P Systems
9:30Erik Winfree
Fault-Tolerance in Biochemical Systems
10:30BREAK
11:15Mikhail Prokopenko, Daniel Polani, Peter Wang
Optimizing Potential Information Transfer with Self-referential Memory
11:45Mihai Oltean
A light-based device for solving the Hamiltonian path problem
12:15LUNCH
14:00W. B. Langdon, R. Poli
Mapping Non-conventional Extensions of Genetic Programming
14:30Michael C. Mozer
Rational Models of Cognitive Control
15:30BREAK
16:15M. Sakthi Balan, Helmut Jürgensen
Peptide Computing - Universality and Theoretical Model
16:45Russ Abbott
If a tree casts a shadow is it telling the time?
17:15 
19:30CONFERENCE DINNER -- St William's College

Friday 8 September

9:00 Akihiro Mikoda, Shuichi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, Mitsuhiko Fujio
The number of orbits of periodic box-ball systems
9:30Reidun Twarock
Structure and self-assembly in viruses
10:30

Fabien Petitcolas
presentation of Microsoft Student travel bursaries

10:45BREAK
11:15Jerzy Mycka, Francisco Coelho, José Félix Costa
The Euclid Abstract Machine: Trisection of the Angle and the Halting Problem
11:45

Uffe Flarup, Klaus Meer
Approximation classes for real number optimization problems

12:15LUNCH
14:00Peter Hines
Physical systems as constructive logics
14:30Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth, Fang Yu, Andrei Paun
On Spiking Neural P Systems and Partially Blind Counter Machines
15:00 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:30