PURPOSE
This is primarily an internal PACE workshop to connect the evolutionary approaches from different groups and to present results on higher-order self-assembly. The themes include the objectives of WP2 “Evolution and self-asssembly”:
O-2.1    Investigation and analysis of evolutionary paths to forming artificial cells and evolving desired functionality
O-2.2    Investigation of possibilities to avoid exploitation including various forms of spatial separation
O-2.3    Investigation of evolvability of higher level cell functionality, including interactions between artificial cells
O-2.4    Simulation of self-assembly of complex functional ensembles of artificial cells and their potential as distributed robotic system
O-2.5    Study the emergence of new functionalities as an interplay between self-assembly and evolution
O-2.6    Investigation of the origin of molecular computation (in the form of signal and control pathways) in protocells and in collectives of protocells

PROGRAM


Date and time    Speaker/activity    topic
March 21
9.00 - 9.15    K. Lindgren    Introduction to the workshop: aim, organization
9.15 – 9.45    Mark Bedau    A functional language for protocell schemes
9.55 - 10.25    Barry McMullin    Preliminary Steps toward Artificial Protocell Computation
10.35 – 11.50    Coffee break    
10.50 – 11.20    Irene Poli    Modeling Genetic Algorithms for experimental designs
11.30 – 12.00    John McCaskill    Evolving amphiphilic systems
13.00 – 14.00    Lunch break    
14.15 -        Self-organzed discussion
        
March 22        
9.00 – 9,30    Norman Packard    Self-assembly and Chemical Reactions at the Transition to Life
9.40 – 10.10    Martin Nilsson Jacobi    Error thresholds in multi-level replicator systems
10.20 – 10.50    Coffee break    
10.50 – 11. 20    Johan Nyström             Presentation of Prototype Simulation Package for Physically Self Assembling Units
11.30 – 12.00    Peter Eggenberger and Ruedi Füchslin    Simulations of assembling vesicular structures
13.00 – 14.00    Lunch break    
14.15 –         Self-organzed discussion