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BIOCOMPUTATION WORKSHOP
Evolution as a computational process
June 22-24, 1992
Doubletree Hotel
2 Portola Plaza
Monterey, Ca 93940

Sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at LLNL and
the Center for Computational Engineering at SNL

This workshop brings together biologists, physicists and computer
scientists with interests in the study of evolution.  The premisis
of the workshop is that natural evolution is computational process
of adaptation to an ever changing environment.  Mathematical theory and 
computer modeling are therefore ideally suited to study evolution
and conversely, evolution may be used as a model system to study the 
computational processes of optimization and emergent pattern formation.

Fifteen invited speakers will provide general reviews and summaries of their
recent research.  Although oral presentations will be limited to the invited
speakers, original research contributions are solicited for poster sessions 
in the following areas:

natural evolution
artificial life
genetic algorithms and optimization

List of speakers:
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Stuart Kauffman      --- University of Pennsylvania, Santa Fe Institute
Alan Templeton       --- Washington University, St. Louis
Daniel Hillis        --- Thinking Machines Inc.
Richard Hudson       --- University of California, Irvine
Steven Frank         --- University of California, Irvine
Alan Hastings        --- University of California, Davis
Warren Ewens         --- Melbourne University and University of Philadelphia
Marcus Feldman       --- Stanford University
Lee Altenberg        --- Duke University
Aviv Bergman         --- SRI  and Stanford University
Mark Bedau           --- Reed College
Heinz Muehlenbein    --- University of Bonn
Eric Mjolsness       --- Yale
Wolfgang Banzhaf     --- Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

Schedule
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Sunday - June 21    
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm     RECEPTION

Monday - June 22

10:00 am - 10:45 am    Kaufmann    Evolution and co-evolution 
                                   at the edge of chaos
10:45 am - 11:30 am    Hastings    Use of optimization techniques to
                                   study multilocus population genetics
11:45 am - 12:30 pm    Altenberg   Theory on the evolution and
                                   complexity of the genotype-phenotype
                                   map
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm     LUNCH

2:00 pm  - 2:45 pm     Templeton   Gene tree overlay algorithms: a 
                                   powerful methodology for studying
                                   evolution
2:45 pm  - 3:30 pm     Bedau       Measuring evolutionary activity
                                   in noisy artificial systems
4:00 pm  - 4:45 pm     Muehlenbein Evolutionary algorithms as a research
                                   tool for a new evolutionary theory
7:00 pm                BANQUET - MONTEREY AQUARIUM
                       After Dinner Speaker - Warren Ewens

Tuesday - June 23

10:00 am - 10:45 am    Banzhaf     An introduction to RNA-like 
                                   algorithms with applications to
                                   sequences of binary numbers
10:45 am - 11:30 am    Hillis      Simulated evolution and the Red Queen
                                   Hypothesis
11:45 am - 12:30 pm    Frank       Coevolutionary genetics of hosts
                                   and parasites
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm     LUNCH

2:00 pm  - 2:45 pm     Bergman     Learning your environment

2:45 pm  - 3:30 pm     Feldman     Recombination and evolution

4:00 pm  - 7:30 pm     POSTER SESSION

Wednesday - June 24

10:00 am - 10:45 am    Mjolsness   Connectionist grammars in evolution 
                                   and development
10:45 am - 11:30 am    Hudson      Title to be announced

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm     GROUP LUNCH DISCUSSIONS AT LOCAL RESTAURANTS 




Instructions for Submissions and registration:
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Authors should submit a single-page abstract clearly stating their results
by June 12, 1992, to the Meeting Coordinator at the address listed below.  
Please indicate which of the above categories best applies to your paper.
There will be no parallel sessions, and the workshop will be structured to
stimulate and facilitate the active involvement of all attendees.  
There will be sessions on the first 2 days from 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM with
1-2 hrs lunch breaks. On the third day there will be a morning session
and a short afternoon session only (maybe one talk until 3:00 PM).
Registration fees are $100 for full-time Ph.D. students and $250 for all
others.  Fees include admission to a banquet, at the Monterey aquarium,
to be held on Monday night.  (There is a $50 discount for students presenting
posters at the meeting.)  

To obtain registration materials and housing
information, please contact the Meeting Coordinator.

For information only please contact eeckman at mozart.llnl.gov
Electronic abstract submissions only at jb at s1.gov

Meeting coordinator:  
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Chris Ghinazzi
P.O. Box 808, L-426
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550

phone: (510) 422-7132

email: ghinazzi at verdi.llnl.gov


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Please complete this form and return it to:  Evolution as a Computational 
Process, c/o Chris Ghinazzi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
P.O. Box 808, L-426, Livermore, CA 94550-9900.  Phone (510)422-7132 or
FAX: (510)422-7819

REGISTRATION FORM

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Registration Fees:
	Regular 	 $250
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Requests for refunds must be received in writing no later than June 1, 1992.
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