[quantum-info] UCNC 2014 - Invited Speakers, CFP, Facebook Page

[Daniel Gottesman]

>                        UCNC 2014 -   CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>                          The 13th International Conference on
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>               Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation
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>             University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
>                                        July 14-18, 2014
>                             http://www.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014
>                          http://www.facebook.com/UCNC2014
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>                            Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
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>
>
> 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:
>
> * 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;
>
> * Cellular automata, Neural computation, Evolutionary computation,
> Swarm intelligence, Ant algorithms, Artificial immune systems,
> Artificial life, Membrane computing, Amorphous computing;
>
> * Computational Systems Biology, Genetic networks, Protein-protein
> networks, Transport networks, Synthetic biology, Cellular (in vivo)
computing.
>
>
> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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> Authors are invited to submit original papers (at most 12 pages in
> LNCS format) or one-page poster abstracts using the link
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2014
>
> Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). The
> revised version of the manuscripts, to appear in a LNCS volume by
> Springer available at the conference venue, must be prepared in LATEX,
> see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors
>
> The papers must not have been submitted simultaneously to other
> conferences with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be
> presented at the conference. Selected papers will appear in a special
issue of Natural Computing.
>
>
> INVITED SPEAKERS
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> 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
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> Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Canada) - Reaction
> Systems Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)  - Approximating
> Semantics
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>
> WORKSHOPS
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> Computational Neuroscience - Organizer Mark Daley (University of
> Western Ontario, Canada) DNA Computing by Self-Assembly - Organizer
> Matthew Patitz  (University of Arkansas, USA) TRUCE Workshop -
Organizers Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK),
>                             Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
> Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2014 Final versions due: April
> 27, 2014
> Conference: July 14-18, 2014
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>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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>     Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
>     Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
>     Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
>     Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
>     Jose Felix Costa (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
>     Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
>     Alberto Dennunzio (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
>     Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
>     Jerome Durand-Lose (Universite d'Orleans, France)
>     Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
>     Oscar H. Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA,
Co-Chair)
>     Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, Japan)
>     Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
>     Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada, Co-Chair)
>     Viv Kendon (University of Leeds, UK)
>     Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras, India)
>     Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
>     Yongli Mi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

>     Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
>     Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
>     Hava Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
>     Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
>     Damien Woods (California Institute of Technology, USA)
>     Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea)
>
>
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
>
>     Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario)
>     Helmut Jurgensen (University of Western Ontario)
>     Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario,  Chair)
>     Steffen Kopecki  (University of Western Ontario)
>     Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario)
>
>
> STEERING COMMITTEE
>
>     Thomas Back (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
>     Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand, Founding
Chair)
>     Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs,  USA)
>     Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA, Co-Chair)
>     Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland, Co-Chair)
>     Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
>     Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
>     Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
>     Gheorghe Paun (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy,
Romania)
>     Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden University, The Netherlands, Emeritus
Chair)
>     Arto Salomaa (University of Turku, Finland)
>     Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA)
>     Carme Torras (Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics,
Spain)
>     Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
>
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