Call for Participation

First International Conference on
UNCONVENTIONAL MODELS OF COMPUTATION

CDMTCS, NZ
Santa Fe Institute, USA

5-9 January 1998, Auckland, New Zealand

Invited and Accepted Papers

Invited Lectures

• M. Amos and A. Gibbons (Liverpool): Practical implementation of DNA computations
• A. Ekert (Oxford): Quantum algorithms revisited
• H. J. Kimble (Caltech): Implementing quantum logic and communication in quantum optics
• S. Lloyd (MIT): Unconventional models of quantum computation
• C. Moore (Santa Fe): Analog computation: Computation and language recognition in dynamical systems and recurrent neural networks
• J. Reif (Duke): Bio-molecular methods for computation
• A. Salomaa (Turku): Turing, Watson-Crick and Lindenmayer. Aspects of DNA complementarity

Contributed Talks

• Gordon Alford. An explicit construction of a universal extended H system
• M. Josephine Ammer, Michael Frank, Tom Knight, Nicole Love, Norm Margolus and Carlin Vieri. A scalable reversible computer in silicon
• Mark H. Butler, Ray C. Paton and Paul H. Leng. Unconventional approaches for biologically inspired computing
• Elena Calude and Marjo Lipponen. Deterministic incomplete automata: simulation, universality and complementarity
• B.E.P. Clement, P.V. Coveney, M. Jessel, and Peter J. Marcer. The brain as a Huygens machine
• B. Jack Copeland. Even Turing machines can compute uncomputable functions
• Michael Frank, Tom Knight and Norm Margolus. Reversibility in optimally scalable computer architectures
• Rudolf Freund and Valeria Mihalache. Molecular computations on circular and linear strings
• Yuzhen Ge, Layne T. Watson and Emmanuel G. Collins, Jr. Genetic algorithms for optimization on a quantum computer
• Karl Gustafson. Ergodic learning algorithms
• Peter H. Her tling. Embedding cellular automata into reversible ones
• Thomas F. Knight, Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. Cellular gate technology
• Alexandru Mateescu. Splicing on routes: a framework of DNA computations
• Hideaki Matsueda. Spatiotemporal evolution of quantum entangled pure states in quantum computing solid block circuits
• Lakshmi Narayanaswamy and Peter M. Kogge. Combinators and processing-in-memory: an unconventional basis for avoiding the memory wall
• Mitsunori Ogihara. The minimum DNA computation model and its computational power
• Gheorghe P\u aun. Distributed architectures in DNA computing based on splicing: limiting the size of components
• Yuzuru Sato, Makoto Taiji and Takashi Ikegami. Self-similar sets as satisfiable boolean expressions
• Karl Svozil. The Church-Turing thesis as a guiding principle for physics
• Carlin Vieri, M. Josephine Ammer, Amory Wakefield, Lars `Johnny' Svensson, William Athans, and Tom Knight. Designing reversible memory
• Herbert Wiklicky. Quantitative computation by Hilbert machines

Papers of both the invited and contributed talks will be published by Springer-Verlag, Singapore in the DMTCS Series, and will be made available to participants during the conference.

Cost of Participation:
The registration fee is NZ$500 (which includes a full-day excursion, dinner and proceedings), or NZ$100 for students (including only the proceedings).

See the UMC'98 conference home page at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/docs/umc98.html for more information about registering for the conference, which includes accommodation specials and restaurant guides for Auckland.

Poster Sessions:
During the conference, there will be a number of poster sessions. If you are interested in presenting a poster (15 minute talk), please contact P. Hertling at hertling@cs.auckland.ac.nz..