Sunday, October 27, 2013

[Mycolleagues] NSF Workshop on Self-Organizing Particle Systems (with SODA)

Registration is now open at http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/registration.html

 

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  SOPS 2014

  NSF Workshop on Self-Organizing Particle Systems

  January 8, 2014, co-located with SODA

  http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

 

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The goal of this NSF-sponsored workshop is to bring together people from the theory and practice of self-organizing physical and biological systems in order to report on recent advances in this area and to identify directions for interdisciplinary research that may help shape the future of the field. The one-day meeting will consist of several invited talks and discussion sessions around four major research areas, namely

 

- amorphous computing,

- self-organizing robotic systems,

- self-organizing biological systems, and

- self-assembling DNA

 

Invited speakers:

 

Bernard Chazelle (Princeton U.)                Nikolaus Correll (U. Colorado Boulder)

Eric Klavins     (U. of Washington)   John Reif        (Duke University)

Andrea Richa     (Arizona State U.)   Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins U.)

Erik Winfree     (Caltech)            Mark Yim         (U. Pennsylvania)

 

Organizers:

               

Andrea W. Richa       Arizona State University, USA

Christian Scheideler  University of Paderborn, Germany

 

For more information, including the workshop program, please consult

 

http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

 

Early registration deadline: December 2, 2013

 

NSF-funded travel grants are available for PhD students, postdocs, women, and under-represented minorities. Application deadline: November 17, 2013