C S O Y M S P T L E E M X S
Symposium
Focus this year: Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics
Images 1, Images 2, Images 3 by Russ Abbott
Slides and Audio Files for each Session
May 16-19, 2005
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keywords: computational complexity, algorithmic complexity, minimal algorithms, NP-complete, cell as a system, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, informatics, chaos fractals, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata, avalanches, granular materials
The conference helps to build the Complex Systems research community. In addition, it offers all presenters of posters and talks an excellent opportunity to publish high quality research quickly in the journal Complexity through an accelerated referee process. Complexity is a leading journal in the field.
Opening Keynote Talk:
Paul Lauterbur, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session Keynote Talks:
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Pro-President of the Israel Physical Society, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bruce Wheeler, Interim Head of Bioengineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Duane Johnson, Director of the Materials Computation Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce R. Schatz, Director of the Community Architectures for Network Information Systems (CANIS) Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bill Greenough, Beckman Institute, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Sweedler, Director of the Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
After Dinner Talk:
Charles Zukoski, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Plenary Talks:
Marc Snir, Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raissa D'Souza, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
David Wolpert, Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames
Eric Jakobsson, Director of Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health
Karl Koehler Deputy Director of 21st Century Research and Technology Fund
Hassan Aref, Dean of College of Engineering, Virigina Tech
Timothy G. Buchman, Past President of Society of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Washington University
Fred Cooper, Los Alamos National Lab and Interdisciplinary Research Program, Physics Division, National Science Foundation
Vernon L. Towle, Chair of Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago Hospitals
Herbert Levine, Physics, University of California at San Diego
Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University
Frank Moss, Director of the Center for Neurodynamics, UMSL
Leonard M. Sander, Physics, University of Michigan
Cosma Shalizi, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Jonathan Machta, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nigel Goldenfeld, Physics, Leader of Biocomplexity Program at The Institut for Genomic Biology, UIUC
Hava Siegelmann, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kimberly Hill, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roy Adler, IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Eric Kostelich, Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University
Philip W. Phillips, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Victor M. Yakovenko, Physics, University of Maryland
Bruce J. West, Chief Scientist,
Mathematical & Information Sciences Directorate
US Army Research Office
Walter Goldburg, Physics, Pittsburgh University
Allen Hunt, Physics, Wright State University
Philip Maini, Oxford University, United Kingdom
James Glazier, Director of Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Alex Travesset, Physics, Iowa State University
Jurgen Scheffran, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce Hannon, Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
May Berenbaum, Head of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erik Luijten, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tutorials: There will be three 90 min hands-on tutorials that will teach basic concepts and build intuition. No prerequisite knowledge is required. - Tutorial I, May 17, 1:00pm, Chaos and Harmony - Tutorial II, May 18, 1:00pm, Tree-like Graphs and Fractals - Tutorial III, May 19, 1:00pm, Artificial Life - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Nets The tutorials are located in 141 Loomis Lab.
List of Participants (Click here)
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Call for Papers: All participants are welcome to contribute a 30-min. talk, or to present a poster in the poster session, or communicate a paper at the preprint table during the coffee breaks.
Please send a brief (<150 words) abstract as soon as possible by E-mail to a-hubler@uiuc.edu and indicate on your registration form the type of your presentation. The conference schedule will be updated daily.
The conference offers an excellent opportunity to publish high quality research quickly in the journal COMPLEXITY through an accelerated referee process. COMPLEXITY is a leading journal in the field.
If you intend to communicate a paper at the preprint table, please bring a sufficient number of copies of your paper to the symposium.
Organizing Committee:
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jim Crutchfield, Physics, UC Davis, U.S.A.
Alfred W. Hubler, Physics, UIUC, U.S.A. (chair)
Eric Jakobsson, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.
John Whitmarsh, Mathematical Biology, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.
Local Organizing Committee:
Bruce Schatz, Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC, schatz@igb.uiuc.edu, (217) 244-0651
Robert M. Clegg, Physics, UIUC, rclegg@uiuc.edu, (217) 244-8143
Alex Scheeline, Chemistry, UIUC, scheelin@uiuc.edu, (217) 333-2999
Karin Dahmen, Physics, UIUC, dahmen@uiuc.edu, (217) 244-8873
Samuel N. Beshers, Entomology, UIUC, beshers@pop.life.uiuc.edu, (217) 333-4971
Noshir Contractor, Speech Communication
& Psychology, UIUC, nosh@uiuc.edu, (217) 333-7780
Tom Anastasio, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, Computer Science, UIUC,
tja@uiuc.edu, (217) 244-2895
Alfred W. Hubler, Physics, UIUC, a-hubler@uiuc.edu, (217) 244-5892
Event Coordinator: Kirstin Phelps, kphelps@uiuc.edu. (217) 433-3744
Paper Publications:
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All registered participants are invited to submit a research paper.
Instant Online Publication. All submitted papers will be published within a few days on a web server with the date at which they were received. We accept all electronic file formats, but we recommend the use of PDF, MS Word, or HTML. The papers will stay online for a couple of years. The papers will be removed from the web server at the authors request.
Longterm Journal Publication. All registered participants are invited to submit a research paper for publication in the journal COMPLEXITY (click here for authors instructions) through an accelerated referee process. The conference papers will be in two issues of the journal Complexity. The deadline for research paper submissions for the first issue is September 30, 2005. The deadline for the second issue is November 15, 2005. The research papers should be submitted to the editorial office of Complexity by email (complexity2@comcast.net) or mail (Joleen Rocque-Frank, PO Box 6865, Santa Fe, NM 87502, U.S.A.) and labeled as "invited conference paper".
Typically authors will take advantage of both options for their paper.
Book table: There will be a display with Complex Systems text books and journals.
Location: 141 Loomis Lab (Green Street & Goodwin Ave) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL, 61801, USA
Mailing Address: Alfred W. Hubler Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 W Green Street Urbana IL 61801Transportation and Lodging: It is often very expensive to fly directly to Champaign-Urbana's local airport. Many visitors (particularly international visitors) choose instead to fly into the nearest major international airport, Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and then travel to Champaign-Urbana by a charter bus or by train. If you need maps or driving directions, click here. You might also want to check today's Chicago area traffic congestion map.
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The MTD is an excellent public bus system connecting the campus with the airport and other locations in town.
In addition there is a shuttle service from the Champaign airport to the university (reservation required: Corky's 217 - 352 3121).
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For questions about lodging and transportation please contact the event coordinator Kirstin Phelps, kphelps@uiuc.edu. (217) 433-3744.
Conference Fee:
The regular conference fee is $190 ($150 early registration before April 15, 2005 ) and includes six issues of the journal Complexity (contain conference papers), continental breakfast and lunch May 16-19 and the speaker appreciation dinner). The conference fee for students is $45 with speaker appreciation dinner and $20 without the appreciation dinner. For UIUC students and faculty there is no conference fee, but a $30 charge for the speaker appreciation dinner and a $7.75 charge for lunch tickets. Click here for registration and payment.
A limited travel fund is available. It will be used primarily to encourage participation by underrepresented minorities and women graduate students. To apply for travel support, please email event coordinator Kirstin Phelps, kphelps@uiuc.edu with
- a one paragraph summary of research or policy involvement with complex systems
- either a poster title or statement of why you wish to participate in the conference
- contact information.
Sponsors of this conference series: National Institutes of Health 21st Century Research and Technology Fund Office of the Chancellor, UIUC Center for Advanced Study, UIUC National Center of Supercomputer Applications, UIUC Center for Complex Systems Research, UIUC Materials Computation Center, UIUC Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, UIUC Biotechnology Center, UIUC Charles R. Walgreen Chair, Susan Kieffer, UIUC Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC Theoretical & Computational Biophysics, UIUC Beckman Institute, UIUC Neuroscience Program, UIUC Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL), UIUC Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering, UIUC Chemical Biology, UIUC Analytical Chemistry, UIUC Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), UIUC College of Law, UIUC College of Engineering, UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC College of Business, UIUC College of Medicine, UIUC School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science Department of Physics, UIUC Department of Chemistry, UIUC Department of Economics, UIUC Department of Entomology, UIUC Department of General Engineering, UIUC Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, UIUC Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, UIUC Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UIUC Department of Geology, UIUC Department of Bioengineering, UIUC Department of Crop Sciences, UIUC Department of Computer Science, UIUC Department of Mathematics, UIUC Department of Materials Science and Engineering Office of Naval Research COMPLEXITY Journal COMPLEXITY Digest Espresso provided by Espresso Italia (217) 412-8538 UIUC Conference Poster, UIUC Conference FlyerTo register please click here. The sooner you register the better the time slot of your presentation. Flyer
