PROGRAM

Tuesday 15th May 2007

10:00 am Arrival at ECLT
10:10 am Introductory remarks: Mark Bedau and Natalio Krasnogor
10:30 am David Farusseng, Combinatorial catalysis: an evolution or a revolution?
11:15 am Coffee Break
11:45 am Rebecca Schulman, The Self-Replication and Evolution of DNA crystals
12:30 am Julian Miller, Evolution "in materio": evolving computation in materials
1:15 pm Lunch
3:00 pm Natalio Krasnogor, A genetic algorithm approach to probing the evolution of self-   
organized nanostructured systems
3:45 pm Thomas Baeck, Evolutionary approaches to many- parameter physics
4:30 pm Coffee Break
5:00 pm Uwe Tangen, Evolution of computer hardware
5:45 pm Day 1 closing remarks
8:00 pm Workshop dinner

Wednesday 16th May 2007

9:30 am Mark Bedau, Statistical models for evolutionary design of complex chemistry
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:45 am Larry Bull, Towards coevolutionary control for chemical computing
11:30 am James Cawse, Genetic Algorithms as Screening Designs
12:15 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Alexandra Penn, Embodied evolution of ecosystems
2:45 pm Ron Weiss, Artificial signaling pathways for PROGRAMd pattern formation and tissue engineering
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Discussion
5:30 pm Workshop closing