Dear Colleagues,
This is the second call for participation for the 16th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2017) on June 5-9, 2017 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR, USA. Registration is open, and can be found here:
We are still accepting abstract submissions for posters to be presented during the poster session. Abstracts can be uploaded to Easychair and authors will be notified of acceptance within a few days of submission:
There is generous student travel support available for students of US institutions, and the application can be found here:
Please register and join us at the University of Arkansas for UCNC 2017! (More details about the conference can be found below.) We hope to see you there!
Thanks!
Matt
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BACKGROUND
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The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) is a meeting where scientists from many different backgrounds are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 16th UCNC will take place in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, a city nestled in the Ozark Mountains and home to the University of Arkansas.
The main conference web site can be found here:
INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Erik Demaine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
* Masayuki Endo (Kyoto University, Japan)
* José Félix Costa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
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* Jérome Durand-Lose (Universite d'Orleans, France)
* Makato Naruse (National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan)
WORKSHOPS
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* Membranes/Systems Biology
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Organisers:
Matteo Cavaliere (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alfonso Rodriguez Paton (Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, Spain)
Invited Speakers:
Alvaro Sanchez (Yale University)
Sergey Verlan (University Paris Est Créteil)
* Physics and Computation
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Organiser: Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Oritatami, 1st International Workshop on
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Organiser: Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-
Communications, Japan)
Invited Speakers:
Cody Geary (Caltech/Aarhus University)
Nicolas Schabanel (CNRS, U. Paris Diderot (IRIF), & ENS Lyon (IXXI))
UCNC Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
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* Molecular computing
* Quantum computing
* Optical computing
* Chaos computing
* Physarum computing
* Collision-based computing
* Self-assembling and self-organizing systems
* Super-Turing computation
* Cellular automata
* Neural computation
* Evolutionary computation
* Swarm intelligence
* Ant algorithms
* Artificial immune systems
* Artificial life
* Membrane computing
* Amorphous computing
* Computational systems biology
* Computational neuroscience
* Synthetic biology
* Cellular (in-vivo) computing
ORGANISING COMMITTEE (UCNC)
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* Matthew Patitz, University of Arkansas
* Cindy Pickney, University of Arkansas
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (UCNC)
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* Andy Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
* Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
* Peter Banda (University of Luxembourg)
* Cristian Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
* Matteo Cavaliere (University of Edinburgh, UK)
* Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
* Jérome Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans, France)
* Angel Goni-Moreno (Centre for Synthetic Biology and
Bioexploitation, Newcastle University)
* Jacob Hendricks (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
* Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
* Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Viv Kendon (Durham University, UK)
* Niall Murphy (University of Cambridge, UK)
* Makato Naruse (National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan)
* Turlough Neary (University of Zurich/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
* Pekka Orponen (Aalto University, Finland)
* Matt Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA; Co-Chair)
* Alfonso Rodriguez Paton (Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, Spain)
* Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
* Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield, UK; Co-Chair)
* Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
* Scott Summers (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA)
* Sergey Verlan (University Paris Est Créteil, France)
* Damien Woods (Inria-Paris, France)
FURTHER INFORMATION (UCNC)
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Matthew Patitz
Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
504 J.B. Hunt Building
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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