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University of Sheffield Conference Centre, The Halifax, Sheffield, S10 3ER

 

DATE                            ITINERARY SPEAKERS TITLES


Tuesday 17th August 2010
 

 

 

Session 1
 

 

 

 

12.30

Lunch

 

 

14.00

Plenary speaker

Tamer Basar (USA)

Games, Networks and Distributed Computations

15.00

Amorph speaker

Chris Cannings  (Sheffield)

Some dynamics of and on graphs

15.30

Tea break

 

 

16.00

Speakers

Mark Broom
Christoforus Hadjichrysanthou
Andrew Handley
Mohan Velumailum
 

Evolutionary models on graphs
Evolutionary games on graphs
Networks on random cycles
The Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a
cycle.

18.00

Free time

18.30-20.00

Buffet: The Edge Dining Room

 

 

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Wednesday 18th August 2010
 

 

 

Session 2
 

 

 

 

 9.00

Plenary speaker

Jean-Louis Deneubourg (BEL)

Self-organising in insect systems

10.00

Amorph speaker

Fabrice Saffre (UAE)

Self-organising in IT systems

10.30

Coffee break

 

 

11.00

Speaker 1

Nathaniel Virgo (Sussex)
 

Designing Dissipative Structures: the Effect of Feedback on Non-Equilibrium Systems

11.30

Speaker 2                             

Orestis Chrysafis
(Onalytica Ltd)

Community structures in the We

12.00

Speaker 3

Dave Cliff (Bristol)

Ultra-large scale computer challenges

12.30

Lunch

 

 

       
Session 3
 
     

14.00

Plenary speaker

H Van. Parunak (USA)

Behaviour as movement

15.00

Speaker 4

David Hales (Delft)

Exploiting self-organisation in socio-technological systems

15.30

Tea break

 

 

16.00

Amorph speakers

Seth Bullock (Southampton)/
Mariusz Jacyno/Nic Geard

Thermodynamic computer systems

16.30

Plenary discussion

 

 

17.30

Free time

 

 

18.30-20.00

Buffet: The Edge Dining Room

 

 

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Thursday 19thAugust 2010
 

 

 

Session 4
 

 

 

 

 9.00

Plenary speaker

Marcel Salathe (USA)

Dynamics and Control of Infectious Diseases on Empirical Networks.
A School Case Study

10.00

Amorph speaker

Vincent Jansen (RHUL)

Networks and complex biological interactions in epidemiology and ecology

10.30

Coffee break

 

 

11.00

Speakers

TBA

Vasilis Hatzopoyulos

Mick Taylor

Peter Appleby

The impact of info transmitted on
epidemic outbreaks
Interplay between diseases & info dynamics in a structured population.
From Markovian to pairwise epidemic models and the performance of moment closure approximations
Design principles of the chemotaxis circuit in the nematode C.elegans

12.45

Lunch + Poster session

 

 

       
Session 5
 
     

14.00

Plenary speaker

Jake Beal (USA)

Spatial computing:
Creating global behaviours from local Interactions
Connections to biological sytems
Robustness & scalability
Space/network durability

15.00

Amorph speaker

Netta Cohen (Leeds)

Non-random networks: dynamics of structure and function in biological cell networks

15.30

Tea break

 

 

16.00
 

 

 

Speakers

Martin Huelse

Richard Southwell
Keith Briggs
Amelia Waddington

Generation  of complex artificial neural networks for fast robotic learning
Mining the space of rewrite systems
Asychronous distributed graph coloring
Local Spike-Time-Dependant

 

 

19.45 - 21.45

Conference dinner:
The Edge Dining Room

 

 

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Friday 20th August 2010
 

 

 

Session 6
 

 

 

 

 9.00

Plenary speaker

James Sharpe (ESP)

An atlas of network design for spatial stripe formation

10.00

Amorph speaker

David Irons (Sheffield)

Bio-inspired positional specification in Amorphous computing

10.30

Coffee break

 

 

11.00

Speakers

Boris Mitavskiy

Richard Southwell
Jonathan Jordan

Expected Length of State Cycles in Finite-State-Update 
Networks having Sequential Graph Topology
Reproducing Networks
Preferential duplication graphs

12.50

Closing speech + lunch

 

 

 

 

 
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