Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9)

Tremont Boston Hotel

September 12-15th 2004

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Workshops and Tutorials

Workshop/Tutorial chair:
Phil Husbands philh @ sussex.ac.uk

Sunday 12th September

Workshops

FULL PROGRAM

Workshop1. (Full day)
Workshop on Self-Organization and Development in Artificial and Natural Systems

Sanjeev Kumar, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University

Workshop2 (Full day)
Workshop on Artificial Chemistry and Its Applications

Hideaki SUZUKI , ATR Network Informatics Laboratories, JAPAN and Tim HUTTON , University College London, UK

Workshop3 (Full day)
Rethinking Life: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives

Mark Bedau, Department of Philosophy, Reed College


Tutorials

Tutorial 1.(Half day - morning)
Robot ? a Word and a Machine in the World

Jana Horáková, Dept. of Theatre and Interactive Media Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Jozef Kelemen Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

 Tutorial 2.(Half day - afternoon)
Life as it is? Population genetics basics for evolutionary computation experts.

Richard A. Watson and Daniel M. Weinreich Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

Tutorial 3.(Half day - morning)
Evolution of Sensors

Daniel Polani, Dept. Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire.

Tutorial4. (Half Day - afternoon)
Introduction to Random Boolean Networks

Carlos Gershenson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Andrew Wuensche, UWE & Sussex

Tutorial5. (Half Day - afternoon)
The Quantum Coreworld

Alexander (Sasha) Wait, Harvard Medical School