Novel Computing Substrates, International Workshop at UC09, September 7-11, 2009, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal

MONDAY 7th September

10:30 - Milan Stojanovic (Columbia Univ, USA): Molecular automata and robots

11:10 - Mark Everitt, Martin Jones, Vivien Kendon, Neil Lovett, Robert Wagner (Univ of Leeds, UK): Analogue computation with microwaves

11:50 - Susan Stepney (York University, UK): Classical computing in nuclear magnetic resonance

Break

14:00 - Toshi Nakagaki (Hokkaido Univ, Japan): Solving a multi-purpose optimization problem by amoeboid computing

14:40 - Manu Prakash (MIT, USA): Programmable soft-matter: merging chemistry and computation with microfluidics

15:20 - Anirban Bandyopadhyay (National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan): Realization of Neumann's emergent computing on an organic molecular layer

Break

16:30 - Ben De Lacy Costello (UWE, Bristol, UK): Chemical computers - from tessellations to excitation bullets

17:10 - Andy Adamatzky (UWE, Bristol, UK): Discussion: wankers vs studs, cost of computation etc.

TUESDAY 8th September

10:30 - Vladimir Privman (Clarkson Univ, USA): Enzyme-based biocomputing for robust information processing

11:10 - Victor Erokhin (Univ of Parma, Italy): Organic memristors and bio-inspired information processing

11:50 - Klaus-Peter Zauner (Southmapton Univ, UK): Semibiotic computers: at the Interface

Break

14:00 - Jonathan Mills (Indiana Univ, USA): Tangible prototyping: quantum emulation and protein-folding with the EAC

14:40 - Yuri Astrov (Ioffe Institute, Russia): Semiconductor gas-discharge planar structures for unconventional computing

15:20 - Soichrio Tsuda (UWE, Bristol, UK): Physarum chip: An interface between cellular 'brain' and artificial devices

Break

16:30 -Yasuhiro Igarashi, Jerzy Gorecki (Inst of Physical Chemistry, Poland): Chemical diodes built with controlled excitable media

17:10 - Jan Szymanski, Jerzy Gorecki (Inst of Physical Chemistry, Poland): Dynamics of chemical pulses propagating inside an optical capillary: A possible basis for construction of unconventional computing devices

17:50 - Wesley Van Dessel (European Commission, Brussels): FET: an unconventional European funding scheme for unconventional ICT research

18:10 - Klaus-Peter Zauner (Southmapton Univ, UK) and Wesley Van Dessel (European Commission, Brussels) Discussion: Survival off the beaten path

WEDNESDAY 9th September

11:30 - 12:30 - Reserved slots/Discussion/Plans for collaborative activities