Provisional agenda
12 July, Thursday
08:30 Registration & Coffee Break
09:30 Jonathan Mills: Natural Computing
10:30 Kohta Suzuki: Design of DNA Spike Oscillator
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Christof Teuscher: Computation in Self-Assembled Avogadro-Scale Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Susan Stepney: The Neglected Pillar of Material Computation
15:30 Kaoru Onodera: The Computing Power of Structured Molecules with Gaps: Watson-Crick Insertion Systems
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Effirul I. Ramlan and Klaus-Peter Zauner: Nucleic Acid Enzymes: The Fusion of Self-assembly and Conformational Computing
17:00 Mike Stannett: Physical Hypercomputation
17:30 Matthias Bechmann, John A. Clark, Angelika Sebald, Susan Stepney: Unentangling NMR computing
18:00 Discussions/Free time
19:00 Dinner (to be confirmed)
13 July, Friday
08:30 Coffee
09:00 Kenichi Morita: Computation-Universality in Simple Reversible Systems
10:00 Simon O'Keefe: Implementation of Logical Operations on a Domino Substrate
10:30 William M. Stevens: A Kinematic Turing Machine
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Tetsu Saigusa, Atsushi Tero, Ryo Kobayashi: Solving Networking Problems by Amoeba: Dynamics and Computation
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Tetsuya Asai: Neuromorphic VLSIs: Past, Present & Future
15:30 Jeff Jone: Collective Perception of Absolute Brightness from Relative Contrast Information - An Emergent Pattern Formation Approach
16:00 Eugene Kitamura: Wholeness Based on Gluing of Incomplete Information
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Masayuki Ikebe: Evaluation of a multi-path maze-solving cellular automata by using a virtual slime-mold model
17:30 Navneet Bhalla: Mapping Virtual Self-assembly Rules to Physical Systems
18:00 Discussion/Free time
19:00 Dinner (to be confirmed)
14 July, Saturday
08:30 Coffee
09:00 Julian Miller and Simon Harding: Evolution in Materio: evolving computation in materials
10:00 Willem Fouche, Johannes Heidema, Glyn Jones, Petrus H. Potgieter: Halting in quantum Turing computation
10:30 Ed Blakey: On the Computational Complexity of Physical Computing Systems
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Klaus-Peter Zauner: Biological Computing Substrates
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Xin-She Yang: Nonlocal Cellular Automata
15:00 Joanna N. Gorecka, Jerzy Gorecki and Yasuhiro Igarashi: On the simplest chemical signal diodes constructed with an excitable medium
15:30 Takashi Morie: A Cellular-Automaton-Based Anisotropic Diffusion Algorithm for Subjective Contour Generation and Its Digital VLSI Implementation
16:00 Coffee break & Closing (to be confirmed)
