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UC 2006: Unconventional Computation, September 2006, York UK

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                             Final Call for Papers
                                    UC 2006
           5th International Conference on Unconventional Computation

                   4-8 September 2006, University of York, UK

                      http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/uc06/


Original papers are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation.
 
Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum
, 
cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical
 
systems based computing; and various proposals for computations that go bey
ond 
the Turing model. Papers dealing with theory as well as with experiments an
d 
applications are welcome.

Invited Speakers: Gerard Dreyfus (ESPCI), Michael C. Mozer (Boulder, Colora
do), 
Erik Winfree (Caltech), Damien Woods (University College Cork). Further 
speakers to be announced.

Programme Committee co-chairs: Cristian S. Calude, Auckland, NZ, and Gheorg
he 
Paun, Seville, Spain
Local Organising Committee co-chairs: Susan Stepney, Ottoline Leyser

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers (up to 12 pages, LNCS sty
le) 
electronically to the conference secretary M.J. Dinneen at cdmtcs@gmail.com
. 
All submissions are expected to be in PDF format. Joint submissions to othe
r 
conferences are not permitted. Each accepted paper must be presented at the
 
conference. The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS series.

Important Dates:
Submissions Due: 12 March 2006
Notification: 10 May 2006
Final Copies Due: 30 May 2006

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Student Travel Bursaries

Microsoft Research Cambridge are kindly supplying 10 student travel bursari
es 
of ?300 each.

Applications: Applicants must be registered PhD students at the time of the
 
conference, but need not be delivering a paper.  Applications should includ
e 
the student's name, benefits of attending the conference, and a letter of
 
support from their supervisor, and should be sent electronically to the loc
al 
organiser Fiona Polack at fiona@cs.york.ac.uk

Important Dates:
Applications Due: 17 May 2006
Notification: 30 May 2006

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