Connectionists: BDA 2021 — Final call for presentations

[Navlakha, Saket]

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The 8th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA 2021)
July 29-30, 2021. Virtual event, in conjunction with PODC 2021
https://www.navlakhalab.net/BDA/2021/
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We are excited to announce the 8th workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA). The aim of the workshop is to foster collaborative research between biologists and distributed computing theory researchers. Such research can lead to a better understanding of the behavior of the biological systems, while at the same time developing novel algorithms that can be used to solve basic distributed computing problems. We invite presentations related to any biological system.


The workshop will be virtual, spanning the following two time slots:
Thursday, Jul 29, 19:00-21:00 CEST
Friday, Jul 30, 17:00-21:00 CEST


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SUBMISSIONS
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We solicit submissions of extended abstracts describing recent results relevant to biological distributed computing. We especially welcome extended abstracts describing new insights and / or case studies regarding the relationship between distributed computing and biological systems even if these are not fully formed. Since a major goal of the workshop is to explore new directions and approaches, we especially encourage the submission of ongoing work. Selected contributors would be asked to present, discuss and defend their work at the workshop.


Submissions should be in PDF and include title, author information, and a 4-page extended abstract. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bda20210


Note: The workshop will not include published proceedings. In particular, we welcome submissions of extended abstracts describing work that has appeared or is expected to appear in other venues.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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May 15, 2021 – Extended abstract submission deadline
June 5, 2021 – Decision notifications
July 29-30, 2021 – Workshop


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Dave Ackley - Univ. of New Mexico
George Bassel - Univ. of Warwick
Josh Bongard - Univ. of Vermont
Anne Condon - Univ. of British Columbia
Stephanie Forrest - Arizona State Univ.
Mike Levin - Tufts
Christos Papadimitriou - Columbia
Dana Randall - Georgia Tech


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ziv Bar-Joseph - CMU
Anna Dornhaus - Univ. of Arizona
Yuval Emek - Technion (co-chair)
Ile Fiete - MIT
Amos Korman - CNRS and Univ. of Paris Diderot
Nancy Lynch - MIT
Frederik Mallmann-Trenn - King's College London
Melanie Moses, Univ. of New Mexico
Saket Navlakha - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (co-chair)
Calvin Newport - Georgetown
Merav Parter - Weizmann Institute
Ted Pavlic - Arizona State Univ.
Andrea Richa - Arizona State Univ.