[quantum-info] FW: UCNC 2014 PROGRAM

[Daniel Gottesman]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lila Kari [mailto:lila.kari at uwo.ca]
Sent: May-12-14 3:16 PM
To: Daniel Gottesman
Cc: Stephanie Mohl; Lila Kari
Subject: UCNC 2014 PROGRAM


Dear Daniel, Stephanie,

This email is to let you know that the tentative program for UCNC 2014 is
now available (see below).

The quantum computing invited  talk (Charles Bennett - "From Quantum
Dynamics to Physical Complexity'') is scheduled on Thursday, July 17,
9:00am-10:00am. (I was careful not to overlap your event in Waterloo.)

I would be much obliged if you could advertize this at the Perimeter
Institute, hopefully it will generate some interest.

Many thanks!

lila


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UCNC 2014 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

The 13th International Conference on
Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation (UCNC) University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada July 14-18, 2014

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

The tentative program of UCNC 2014 is now available at
http://conferences.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014/timetable.php

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Yaakov Benenson (ETH Zurich) - "Molecular Computing Meets Synthetic
Biology"
Charles Bennett (IBM Research) - "From Quantum Dynamics to Physical
Complexity''
Hod Lipson (Cornell University) - "The Robotic Scientist"
Nadrian Seeman (New York University) - "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of
Life"

INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Anne Condon (University of British Columbia) - "Programming with
Biomolecules"
Ming Li (University of Waterloo) - "Approximating Semantics"
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University) - "Do We Compute to Live, or Live to
Compute?"

WORKSHOP ON DNA COMPUTING BY SELF-ASSEMBLY - MAIN SPEAKERS

Scott Summers (University of Wisconsin) - ''Two Hands Are Better than One
(in Self-Assembly)''
Damien Woods (Caltech) - ''Intrinsic Universality and the Computational
Power of Self-Assembly''

WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE - MAIN SPEAKERS

William Cunningham (University of Toronto) - ''Computation in Affective
Dynamics''
Randy McIntosh (Rotman Research Institute) - ''Building and Interacting
with the Virtual Brain''

WORNSKHOP ON UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION IN EUROPE - MAIN SPEAKER

Ricard Sole (Univ. Pompeu Fabra) - ''Computation and the Major Synthetic
Transitions in Artificial Evolution''

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
theoretical or experimental results. Typical, but not exclusive, topics
are:

* Molecular (DNA) computing, Quantum computing, Optical computing, Chaos
computing, Physarum computing, Hyperbolic space computation,
Collision-based computing, 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.