Connectionists: UCNC 2014 - Neural Computation Contributions

[Lila Kari]

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

                 Submission deadline: March 7, 2014

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 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:

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

* 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;

* Computational Systems Biology, Genetic networks, Protein-protein 
networks, Transport networks, Synthetic biology, Cellular (in vivo) 
computing.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: See details on the above website which also 
contains information about important dates and committees.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Yaakov Benenson (ETH Zurich) - Synthetic Biology and Biomedicine
Charles Bennett (IBM  Research) - Quantum Information and Computation
Hod Lipson (Cornell University) - Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics
Nadrian Seeman (New York University) - Nanocomputation by DNA Self-assembly


INVITED TUTORIALS

Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Canada) - Programming with
  Biomolecules
Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)  - Approximating  Semantics


WORKSHOPS

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)