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Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation 2014
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, July 14-18
Conference Program Overview (pdf version)
Conference Program (tentative)
| Days | Colour codes for events | ||
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| Sunday, July 13, 2014 | Invited Talks of UCNC 2014 | ||
| Monday, July 14, 2014 | Regular Papers of UCNC 2014 | ||
| Tuesday, July 15, 2014 | Tutorials of UCNC 2014 | ||
| Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | Workshops | ||
| Thursday, July 17, 2014 | Workshop Main Speakers | ||
| Friday, July 18, 2014 | Common Events | ||
| Sunday, July 13, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Grad Club (Middlesex College Bldg., ground floor) | ||
| 3:00–5:30 | Registration and Welcome Reception | ||
| Monday, July 14, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224)) | ||
| 8:00–8:30 | Registration | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Opening | ||
| 9:00–10:00 | The Robotic Scientist Invited Speaker: Hod Lipson |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30–10:55 | Learning Two-input Linear and Nonlinear Analog Functions with a Simple Chemical System Peter Banda and Christof Teuscher |
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| 10:55–11:20 | Reverse-engineering nonlinear analog circuits with evolutionary computation Theodore Cornforth and Hod Lipson |
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| 11:20–11:45 | Doubles and Negatives are Positive (in Self-Assembly) Matthew Patitz, Jacob Hendricks and Trent Rogers |
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| 11:45–12:10 | Producibility in hierarchical self-assembly David Doty |
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| 12:10–1:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30–3:00 | Programming with Bio-molecules Invited Tutorial Speaker: Anne Condon |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| 3:30–4:30 | Two Hands Are Better Than One (in Self-Assembly) Workshop Main Speaker: Scott M. Summers |
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| 4:30–4:55 |
Size-Separable Tile Self-Assembly: A Tight Bound for Temperature-1 Mismatch-Free Systems
Andrew Winslow |
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| 4:55–5:20 |
Fast Arithmetic in Algorithmic Self-Assembly
Alexandra Keenan, Robert Schweller, Michael Sherman and Xingsi Zhong |
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| 5:20–5:45 |
Scaled tree fractals do not strictly self-assemble
Scott M. Summers, David Furcy, Kimberly Barth and Paul Totzke |
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| Tuesday, July 15, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration | ||
| 9:00–10:00 | DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Invited Speaker: Nadrian C. Seeman |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | University College bldg, Room 142 | |
| 10:30–10:55 | Steps toward developing an artificial cell signaling model applied to distributed fault detection Dipankar Dasgupta and Guilherme Costa Silva |
Workshop on DNA Computing by Self-Assembly Organizer: Matthew J. Patitz |
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| 10:55–11:20 | Simulating Cancer Growth Using Cellular Automata to Detect Combination Drug Targets Jenna Butler, Frances Mackay, Colin Denniston and Mark Daley |
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| 11:20–11:45 | Towards an MP model for B lymphocytes maturation Alberto Castellini, Giuditta Franco, Vincenzo Manca, Riccardo Ortolani and Antonio Vella |
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| 11:45–12:10 | Five Nodes Are Sufficient for Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors to Be Computationally Complete Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund and Yurii Rogozhin |
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| 12:10–1:30 | Lunch | ||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 1:30–3:00 | Approximating
Semantics
Invited Tutorial Speaker: Ming Li |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| 3:30–4:30 | Intrinsic Universality and the Computational Power of Self-Assembly Workshop Main Speaker: Damien Woods |
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | University College bldg, Room 142 | |
| 4:30–4:55 | Languages Associated with Crystallographic Symmetry Natasha Jonoska, Mile Krajcevski and Gregory McColm |
Workshop on DNA Computing by Self-Assembly Organizer: Matthew J. Patitz |
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| 4:55–5:20 |
Pseudo-Inversion on Formal Languages
Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han, Shin-Dong Kang, Hwee Kim, Sang-Ki Ko and Kai Salomaa |
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| 5:20–5:45 |
On String Languages Generated by Sequential Spiking Neural P Systems Based on Maximum Spike Number
Keqin Jiang, Yuzhou Zhang and Linqiang Pan |
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| 5:45–6:10 |
Modeling Syntactic Complexity with P Systems. A Preview
Gemma Bel Enguix and Benedek Nagy |
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| Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration | ||
| 9:00–10:00 | Molecular Computing Meets Synthetic Biology Invited Speaker: Yaakov Benenson |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30–10:55 | Pattern formation by spatially organized approximate majority reactions Matthew R. Lakin and Darko Stefanovic |
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| 10:55–11:20 | On DNA-based Gellular Automata Masami Hagiya, Shaoyu Wang, Ibuki Kawamata, Satoshi Murata, Teijiro Isokawa, Ferdinand Peper and Katsunobu Imai |
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| 11:20–11:45 | GUBS a language for synthetic biology : specification and compilation Adrien Basso-Blandin and Franck Delaplace |
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| 11:45–12:10 | Reservoir Computing Approach to Robust Computation using Unreliable Nanoscale Networks Alireza Goudarzi, Matthew R. Lakin and Darko Stefanovic |
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| 12:10–12:30 | Pick up Lunch | ||
| 12:30–3:00 |
Travel to Niagara Falls |
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| 3:00–6:00 | Niagara Falls Excursion |
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| 6:00– |
Niagara Falls Banquet
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| – | Return from Niagara Falls | ||
| Thursday, July 17, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration | ||
| 9:00–10:00 | From Quantum Dynamics to Physical Complexity
Invited Speaker: Charles H. Bennett |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | University College Bldg, Room 204 | |
| 10:30–10:55 | Compact realization of reversible Turing machines by 2-state reversible logic elements Kenichi Morita and Rei Suyama |
Computational Neuroscience Workshop Organizer: Mark Daley |
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| 10:55–11:20 | An Energy-Efficient Computing Approach by Filling the Connectome Gap Yasunao Katayama, Toshiyuki Yamane and Daiju Nakano |
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| 11:20–11:45 | Phase Transition and Strong Predictability Kohtaro Tadaki |
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| 11:45–12:10 | Quantum, Stochastic, and Pseudo Stochastic Languages with Few States Arseny Shur and Abuzer Yakaryilmaz |
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| 12:10–1:30 | Lunch | ||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 1:30–2:30 | Building and Interacting with The Virtual Brain
Workshop Main Speaker: Randy McIntosh |
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| Time | University College Bldg, Room 204 | University College Bldg, Room 204 | |
| 2:30–4:30 | Poster Session/Coffee Break |
Computational Neuroscience Workshop Organizer: Mark Daley |
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 4:30–6:00 | Annual General Meeting Nataša Jonoska UCNC Steering Committee Co-Chair |
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| Friday, July 18, 2014 | |||
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration | ||
| 9:00–10:00 | Do We Compute
to Live, or Live to Compute?
Invited Tutorial Speaker: Tommaso Toffoli |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | University College bldg, Room 142 | |
| 10:30–10:55 | Development of Physical Super-Turing Analog Hardware A. Steven Younger, Emmett Redd and Hava Siegelmann |
Unconventional Computation in Europe Organizers: Martyn Amos, Susan Stepney |
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| 10:55–11:20 | Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array Mark Dean, Catherine Schuman and Douglas Birdwell |
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| 11:20–11:45 | Artificial Astrocyte Networks, as Components in Artificial Neural Networks Zahra Sajedinia |
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| 11:45–12:10 | Universal Computation in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game Brian Nakayama and David Bahr |
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| 12:10–1:30 | Lunch | ||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 1:30–2:30 | Computation and the Major Synthetic Transitions in Artificial Evolution Workshop Main Speaker: Ricard Solé |
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| Coffee | |||
| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | University College bldg, Room 142 | |
| 3:00–3:25 | PHLOGON: PHase-based LOGic using Oscillatory Nano-systems Tianshi Wang and Jaijeet Roychowdhury |
Unconventional Computation in Europe Organizers: Martyn Amos, Susan Stepney |
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| 3:25–3:50 |
Mecobo: A hardware and software platform for in materio evolution
Odd Rune Lykkebø, Simon Harding, Gunnar Tufte and Julian Miller |
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| 3:50–4:15 |
Exact Simulation of One-Dimensional Chaotic Dynamical Systems Using Algebraic Numbers
Asaki Saito and Shunji Ito |
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| 4:15–4:40 |
Unconventional Arithmetic: A System for Computation using Action Potentials
Jonathan Edwards, Simon O'Keefe and William Henderson |
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| Time | Conron Hall (University College Bldg, Room 224) | ||
| 4:40–5:00 | Closing | ||
| 5:00– | Meeting in front of University College Building for walk to Grad Club | ||
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