Connectionists: Biological Distributed Algorithms 2015 -- Call for participation

[Saket Navlakha]

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The 3rd Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA 2015)
August 18-19, 2015 in Boston, MA USA
http://www.snl.salk.edu/~navlakha/BDA2015/
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The 3rd workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA). BDA is focused on the relationships between distributed computing and distributed biological systems. Such research can lead to better understanding of the behavior of the biological systems while at the same time developing novel computational algorithms that can be used to solve distributed computing problems.

BDA 2015 will include invited and contributed presentations, as well as open discussions, on distributed algorithms related to a variety of biological systems, with special attention to communication and coordination in insect colonies and in the brain.

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Registration
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Please register for the conference at http://bda2015.eventbrite.com/
Early registration (by Aug 10) is $100. Late registration is $150.

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Invited speakers
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Yehuda Afek, Tel Aviv University: Faster task allocation by idle ants
Ziv Bar-Joseph, CMU: Belief propagation in bacterial food search
Spring Berman, Arizona State: Control and Estimation Techniques for Adaptive Robotic Swarms
Jennifer Fewell, Arizona State: Division of labor: the organization and self-organization of work
Istvan Karsai, East Tennessee State: Organization of work via the "common stomach" in social insects
Simon Garnier, NJIT: An ant bridge too far
Deborah Gordon, Stanford: Distributed algorithms in ant colonies: nestmate recognition and highway systems
Pankaj Mehta, BU: Learning from collective behavior in Dictyostelium populations
Nir Shavit, MIT and Tel-Aviv University: Connectomes on Demand?
Les Valiant, Harvard: A computational model and theory of cortex

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ziv Bar-Joseph, CMU
Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona
Yuval Emek, Technion (co-chair)
Amos Korman, CNRS and University of Paris Diderot
Nancy Lynch, MIT
Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute (co-chair)

Please refer to our website at http://www.snl.salk.edu/~navlakha/BDA2015/ for the complete schedule.