Opening Remarks
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Evolution I 10:40 Online Chris Lu, Sebastian Towers and Jakob Foerster Arbitrary Order Meta-Learning with Simple Population-Based Evolution 11:00 Thomas Willkens and Jordan Pollack MODES Analysis of Prediction Games 11:20 Siti Aisyah Binti Jaafar, Reiji Suzuki, Satoru Komori and Takaya Arita How Excessive Elitism Can Facilitate the Evolution of Morphology and Behavior of Artificial Creatures with NEAT 11:40 Austin Ferguson and Charles Ofria Potentiating Mutations Facilitate the Evolution of Associative Learning in Digital Organisms Read More
Tutorial : The OpenMOLE platform for model exploration and validation
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Tutorial : Phylogenies: how and why to track them in artificial life
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Tutorial : Evolving Robot Bodies and Brains in Unity
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Evolution II 13:30 Eleni Nisioti and Clément Moulin-FrierDynamics of niche construction in adaptable populations evolving in diverse environments 13:50 Online Kiara Johnson, Sylvie Dirkswager and Anya Vostinar Evolution of symbiotic task-based digital genomes: ectosymbiosis hastens the evolution of endosymbiosis 14:10 Dylan Cope Real-time Evolution of Multicellularity with Artificial Gene Regulation 14:30 Online Genki Ichinose, Daiki Miyagawa, Erika Chiba and Hiroki Sayama How Lévy flights triggered by presence of defectors affect evolution of cooperation in spatial games Read More Read More
Tutorial : Cellular Automata, Self-Reproduction & Complexity
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Tutorial : How to build Research Software: Python
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Tutorial : Untangling Cognition: How Information Theory can demystify brains
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Evolution III 15:20 Jared Moore and Adam Stanton Fitness Agnostic Adaptive Sampling Lexicase Selection 15:40 Online Fabien Benureau Morphological Development at the Evolutionary Timescale 16:00 Cliff Bohm, Arend Hintze and Jory SchossauA Simple Sparsity Function to Promote Evolutionary Search 16:20 Matthew Scott and Jeremy PittInter-Dependent Self-Organising Mechanisms for Co-Operative Survival Read More Read More
Tutorial : Self-Organizing Systems with Machine Learning
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Tutorial : Writing Research Software well & collaboratively in Python
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Tutorial : Dynamical Consciousness
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Artificial Chemistry I 10:10 Maximilian Zorn, Steffen Illium, Thomy Phan, Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien and Thomas Gabor Social Neural Network Soups with Surprise Minimization 10:30 Hiroki Kojima and Takashi Ikegami Implementation of Lenia as a Reaction-Diffusion system 10:50 Stephan Scheidegger, Rudolf M. Füchslin and Udo S. Gaipl Multi – vs. Single – Perceptron Approach for Modelling the Pattern Recognition and Classification in a Multi-Compartment Adaptive Immune System Model 11:10 Connor McShaffrey and Randall Beer Decomposing Viability Space Read More
Swarm robotics 10:10 Piper Welch, Caitlin Grasso and Josh Bongard Searching in the Dark: Evolving Biobot Swarm Compositions to Efficiently Explore Obstructed Environments 10:30 Online David Fielding, Imogen Taylor, Simon Jones, Sabine Hauert and Edmund Hunt Optical Herding of Swarms: Toward Universal Control Algorithms for Microscopic Collectives 10:50 Mohsen Raoufi, Pawel Romanczuk and Heiko Hamann Individuality in Swarm Robots with the Case-study of Kilobots: Noise, Bug, or Feature? Read More
Special Session : Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB) I 10:10 Manh Hong Duong, Calina M. Durbac and The Anh Han A tale of two Regulatory Markets: the role of institutional incentives in supporting sustainable Regulatory Markets for future AI systems 10:20 Online Shiyu Jiang, Hee Joong Kim, Fabio Tanaka, Claus Aranha, Anna Bogdanova, Kimia Ghobadi and Anton DahburaSimulating Disease Spread During Disaster Scenarios 10:40 Online Yara Khaluf and Arne Vandenberghe How Individual Heterogeneity impacts Spreading Dynamics in Urban Proximity Networks: A case-study of virus spreading in the city of Brussels 11:00 Online Martin Hinsch, Eric Silverman and David RobertsoSimulating the Evolutionary Response of a Viral Pandemic to Behaviour Change Read More
Workshop : Cognitive feelings part1
10:10 Mei Jie, Yukie Nagai Opening remarks
10:15 (Keynote) Keisuke Suzuki Using extended reality to study the experience of presence
10:50 Jie Mei, Shiyun Dong, Yukie Nagai Central tendency effects in space and time processing in autism spectrum disorders: A computational study
11:10 Kaede Yoshida, Michele Chan, Masabumi Minami, Yuichi Takeuchi A neural basis of decision-making when faced with contradictory predictions of reward and punishment
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Artificial Chemistry II 13:00 Online David Ackley A Robust Programmable Replicator for an Indefinitely Scalable Machine 13:20 Gabriel J. Severino, Zachary Laborde and Ann-Sophie Barwich The Degeneracy of Control Architectures in Cell Lineages: Implications for Tissue Homeostasis 13:40 Online Rafal Sienkiewicz and Wojciech Jedruch Rafal Sienkiewicz DigiHive – artificial chemistry environment for modeling of self-organization phenomena 14:00 Zachary Laborde and Eduardo Izquierdo: Spatial Embedding of Edges in a Synaptic Generative Model of C. elegans Read More
Neural Cellular Automatata 13:00 James Stovold Neural Cellular Automata Can Respond to Signals 13:20 Online Ritu Pande and Daniele Grattarola Hierarchical Neural Cellular Automata 13:40 Aidan Barbieux and Rodrigo Canaan EINCASM: Emergent Intelligence in Neural Cellular Automaton Slime Molds 14:00 Ettore Randazzo, Alexander Mordvintsev and Craig Fouts Growing Steerable Neural Cellular Automata Read More
Special Session : Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB) II 13:00 Online Paolo Bova, Alessandro Di Stefano and The Anh Han A tale of two Regulatory Markets: the role of institutional incentives in supporting sustainable Regulatory Markets for future AI systems 13:20 Giulia Bernardi, Eric Medvet, Alberto Bartoli and Andrea De Lorenzo Examining the Role of Incentives in Scholarly Publishing with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 13:40 Online Manh Hong Duong, Calina M. Durbac and The Anh Han Optimisation of hybrid institutional incentives for cooperation in finite populations 14:00 Online The Anh Han To Comply or Not: A Social Dynamics Analysis of Institutional Reward and Punishment for Commitment Compliance Read More
Workshop : Cognitive feelings part2
13:00 Ayumi Ikeda, Yuki Yamada Evening brings ghosts: Circadian variation of pareidolia in Japanese
13:20 Eiko Matsuda, Hikaru Asano, Tomoyuki Yuzawa and Osamu Sakura Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses on Child’s Animate Tendency
13:40Takashi Ikegami, Atsushi Masumori, Norihiro Maruyama, Ryosuke Takata, Hiroki Sato, johnsmith, Hiroki Kojima, Yuta Ogai, Itsuki Doi Mind Time Machine II
14:00 Discussion
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Neuromatch
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Artificial Chemistry III 17:10 Tomas Veloz and Simon Hegele A Markovian framework to study the evolution of complexity and resilience in chemical organizations 17:30 Kazuya Horibe, Keisuke Suzuki, Takato Horii and Hiroshi Ishiguro Exploring the Emergent Behaviors of Particle Lenia: A Perturbation-Response Analysis for Computational Agency 17:50 Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Victor Buendia, Georg Martius and Anna Levina Locally adaptive cellular automata for goal-oriented self-organization 18:10 Max Foreback, Sydney Leither and Emily Dolson The Role of Abiotic Parameters in the Promotion of Egalitarian Major Evolutionary Transitions Read More
Special Session : Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB) III 17:10 (Poster quick talk) Stavros Anagnou, Daniel Polani and Christoph Salge The Effect of Noise on the Emergence of Continuous Norms and its Evolutionary Dynamics 17:20 (Poster quick talk) Georgina Montserrat Reséndiz-Benhumea, Jesús M. Siqueiros-García, Carlos Gershenson, Gabriel Ramos Fernández and Katya Rodriguez-Vazquez The Clash of Agents’ Worlds: Simulation Experiments for Investigating the Case of Encounters Between Agents With Different Social Ontogenies 17:30 Discussion; wrap up Read More
Workshop : Alife for and from video games
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Workshop : Molecular Communication Approaches for wetware Artificial Life
17:10
Pasquale Stano
Introduction to Molecular Communications and Synthetic Biology for ALife
17:15
Jiewen Wang, Tadashi Nakano
An Agent-based Modelling Approach to Molecular Communication and Multicellular Structure Formation
17:35
Yutetsu Kuruma Construction of Autopoietic Artificial Cell –Toward Construction of Self-Reproducing Man-Made Cells–
17:55
(Invited Talk) Sasitharan Balasubramaniam Discovering Gene Regulatory Neural Network towards Realizing Biological AI
18:20
General Discussion and Conclusion
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AI & Machine Learning I 10:10 Francesco Mottes, Ramya Deshpande, Alma Dal Co and Michael Brenner In silico morphogenetic engineering with differentiable programming 10:30 Bryan Lim, Manon Flageat and Antoine Cully Efficient Exploration using Model-Based Quality-Diversity with Gradients 10:50 Marcin Korecki, Cesare Carissimo and Tanner Lund aRtificiaL death: learning from stories of failure 11:10 Claire Glanois, Shyam Sudhakaran Elias Najarro and Sebastian Risi. Open-Ended Library Learning in Unsupervised Program Synthesis Read More
Ecosystem & Evolution 10:10 Eden Forbes and Randall Beer The Sun Always Rises: Behavioral Attunement to Abiotic Reins 10:30 Christopher Marriott and Jobran Chebib Domestication syndrome via indirect selection in simulated cereal grains 10:50 Lana Sinapayen Self-Replication, Spontaneous Mutations, and Exponential Genetic Drift in Neural Cellular Automata 11:10 Sydney Leither, Max Foreback and Emily Dolson Interaction Strengths Affect Whether Ecological Networks Promote the Initiation of Egalitarian Major Transitions Read More
Special Session : Vita Ludens: Playfulness in Living Systems I 10:10 Yuko Ishihara and Olaf Witkowski Introduction 10:20 Keynote: Joel Lehman TBA 11:00 Online Heiko Hamann and Thomas Schmickl Free Lunch in Evolutionary Embodied Computation 11:20 (Poster quick talk) Matthew Egbert: Playing and Being Played by the Drums Read More
Workshop : CHEMALIFORMS III part1
10:10
Jitka Cejkova
Workshop Introduction
10:15
Jitka Cejkova
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
10:30
Richard Löffler
Influence of azo-dyes on collective behavior of ethyl salicylate droplets
10:45
Online
Stuart J. Bartlett
Chemical autonomous agents surviving through associative learning
11:10
Nathaniel Virgo
The origin of life: what is the question?
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AI & Machine Learning II 13:00 Kohei Harada, Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Iizuka and Masahito Yamamoto Proprioceptive Drift Can Be Caused by Simple Sensory Prediction 13:20 Anagha Savit Biologically Informed Generative Adversarial Networks for Modeling and Prediction 13:40 Andrew Walter, Shimeng Wu, Andy Tyrrell, Liam McDaid, Malachy McElholm, Nidhin Thandassery Sumithran, Jim Harkin and Martin Trefzer Artificial Neural Microcircuits for use in Neuromorphic System Design 14:00 Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Iizuka and Masahito Yamamoto Multimodal Plastic Body and Peripersonal Space Representation Developed Through Learning of Visuo-Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensations Read More
Art 13:00 Alyssa Adams, Oneris Rico, Nicholas Guttenberg and Olaf Witkowski Ghosts in a Shell: An Immersive Art Experience for ALIFE23 13:20 Iori Tani Inverse Bayesian Feedback Model of True Slime Mold 13:40 Tatsuo Unemi, Daniel Bisig and Philippe Kocher Greedy Agents and Interfering Humans – An artwork making humans meddle with a life in the machine 14:00 Arthur Penty and Gunnar Tufte Evolving Music from a Self-Organising Nanomagnetic Orchestra Read More
Vita Ludens: Playfulness in Living Systems II
13:00
Yuko Ishihara and Olaf Witkowski
Introduction
13:05
Nicholas Guttenberg and Lisa Soros
Designing Emergence in Games
13:05
Richard J.G. Loeffler, Shinpei Tanaka, Silvia Holler and Martin M. Hanczyc
Ecosystem of clusters formed by self-propelled droplet surfers
13:45
Open Discussion
14:10
Yuko Ishihara and Olaf Witkowski
Final Remarks
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Workshop : CHEMALIFORMS III part2
13:00
Online
Steen Rasmussen
Origins of functional biological information
13:30
Online
Luisa Damiano and Pasquale Stano
On the criteria of relevance for wetware (synthetic biology, system chemistry) models in the explorative synthetic research of living and cognitive processes
14:00
Online
Julyan Cartwright
COST Action DYNALIFE (Information, Coding, and Biological Function: the Dynamics of Life)
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ISAL meeting
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AI & Machine Learning III 17:10 Nadine Spychala and Miguel Aguilera Exploring the relation of variational inference and integrated information in a minimal model 17:30 Elias Najarro, Shyam Sudhakaran and Sebastian Risi Towards Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks through Neural Developmental Programs 17:50 Matthew Moreno, Emily Dolson, Santiago Rodriguez Papa and Charles Ofria Toward Phylogenetic Inference of Evolutionary Dynamics at Scale 18:10 Miguel Aguilera and Artemy Kolchinsky Quantifying higher-order entropy production in organized nonequilibrium states Read More
Computation 17:10 Trym Lindell, Barbora Hudcova and Stefano Nichele Canonical Computations in Cellular Automata and Their Application for Reservoir Computing 17:20 Oskar Elek Monte Carlo Physarum Machine 17:40 Online Stuart Bartlett Computation by Convective Logic Gates and Thermal Communication 18:00 Adam J. Svahn and Mikhail Prokopenko An Ansatz for computational undecidability in RNA automata Read More
Workshop : Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life
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Workshop : SB-AI 8. What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? part1
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Complex Systems I 10:10 Emmanouil Giannakakis, Sina Khajehabdollahi and Anna Levina Environmental variability and network structure determine the optimal plasticity mechanisms in embodied agents 10:30 Online Jeffrey Ventrella Evolving Vestibular Bipedal Locomotion with Spring-Mass Tetrahedras 10:50 Ekaterina Sangati, Federico Sangati, Yi-Shan Cheng and Acer Yu-Chan Chang Between Individual Brains and Collective Behavior: Multi-level Emergence in a Group Formation Task 11:10 Riversdale Waldegrave, Susan Stepney and Martin Trefzer Developmental Graph Cellular Automata Read More
Perception, Cognition, Behaviour 10:10 Atsushi Masumori and Takashi Ikegami. Embodied Time Perception Effects of Time Delay on Hand Motion and Time Perception in Virtual Environments 10:30 Zhihua Song, Daoyuan Lin, Tingyu Chen, Yangyang Xu and Wenchi Yang Can Artificial Visual Signals Extend Fish’s Perception Fields? 10:50 Rui Cardoso, Niall Donnelly, Lucy Cheke, Edward Keedwell and Murray Shanahan What is a Stimulus? A Computational Perspective on an Associative Learning Model 11:10 Craig Reynolds Coevolution of Camouflage Read More
Special Session : (In)human Values And Artificial Agency I 10:10 Simon McGregor Introduction & Overview of Session 10:20 Seth Bullock, Jan Noyes, Victoria Steane, Chris Bennett, Wenwen Gao, Sophie Hart, Elliott Hogg and Debora Zanatto Detecting and Classifying Degradation in Robotic Swarms: An Experimental Study 10:40 Simon McGregor Is ChatGPT Really Disembodied? 11:00 Poster Summaries Read More
Workshop : The Distributed Ghost part1
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Complex Systems II 12:40 Riversdale Waldegrave, Susan Stepney and Martin Trefzer Exploring the Rich Behaviour of Developmental Graph Cellular Automata 13:00 Tom Eivind Glover, Ruben Jahren, Ola Huse Ramstad and Stefano Nichele Minimum Equivalence in Random Boolean Networks, Elementary Cellular Automata, and Beyond 13:20 Seth Bullock and Hiroki Sayama Agent Heterogeneity Mediates Extremism in an Adaptive Social Network Model 13:40 Online Gustavo Recio, From Dynamics to Novelty From Dynamics to Novelty: An Agent-Based Model of the Economic System Read More
Language & Communication 12:40 Siyu Yao, Joshua Nunley and Eduardo J Izquierdo Go by Its Name: Evolution and Analysis of Conceptual Referential Communication 13:00 George Sains, Conor Houghton and Seth Bullock Spatial community structure impedes language amalgamation in a population-based iterated learning model 13:20 Gabriel J. Severino, Haily Merritt and Eduardo J. Izquierdo Between you and me: A systematic analysis of mutual social interaction in perceptual crossing agents 13:40 Jory Schossau and Arend Hintze Towards a Theory of Mind for Artificial Intelligence Agents Read More
Special Session : (In)human Values And Artificial Agency II 12:40 Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément Moulin-Frier and Bert Wang-Chak Chan Flow-Lenia: Towards open-ended evolution in cellular automata through mass conservation and parameter localization 13:00 Abootaleb Safdari From Basic Empathy to Basic Trust in Human-Robot Relation: A Phenomenological Proposal 13:20 Online Cristiano Calì Free will and algorithms: a typical androrithm 13:40 Open discussion and summary Read More
Workshop: The Distributed Ghost part2
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Excursion
Bus departs from in front of the main venue for Sapporo Art Park
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Banquet
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Bio-inspired robotics I 9:30 Jie Luo, Carlo Longhi and Gusz Eiben A Comparative Study of Brain Reproduction Methods for Morphologically Evolving Robots 9:50 Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Christopher Kluth and Heiko Hamann Evolving Vestibular Bipedal Locomotion with Spring-Mass Tetrahedras 10:10 Online Marília Lyra Bergamo and Sandro Benigno Hardware speculation for robotic plants through cellular automata principle Read More
Philosophy & Theory 9:30 Tom Froese The enactive account of motivated activity and the hard problem of efficacy (HPE): Artificial life meets the physics of life 9:50 Fernando Rodriguez, Phil Husbands, Anindya Gosh and Ben White Frame by frame? A contrasting research framework for time experience 10:10 Michael Crosscombe and Hiroki Sato On the Existence of Information Bottlenecks in Living and Non-Living Systems 10:30 Online Carlos Gershenson Emergence in Artificial Life Read More
Special Session : ALife And Society I 9:30 Imran Khan and Peter Lewis Introduction & Overview of Session by Session Chairs 9:40 Tadayuki Matsumura, Kanako Esaki, Shunsuke Minusa, Yang Shao, Chihiro Yoshimura and Hiroyuki Mizuno Social Emotional Valence for Regulating Empathy in Active Inference 10:00 Aishwaryaprajna Aishwaryaprajna and Peter Lewis Exploring Intervention in Co-Evolving Deliberative Neuro-Evolution with Reflective Governance for the Sustainable Foraging Problem 10:20 (poster quick talk) Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ben White and Lorena Sganzerla The Cognitive Archaeology of Sociocultural Lifeforms 10:30 (poster quick talk) Juste Raimbault and Denise Pumain Innovation dynamics in multi-scalar systems of cities Read More
Workshop : SB-AI 8. What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? part2
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Bio-inspired robotics II 11:10 Emma Stensby Norstein, Frank Veenstra, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Tønnes Nygaard and Kyrre Glette, Effects of compliant and structural parts in evolved modular robots 11:30 Amany Azevedo Amin, Efstathios Kagioulis, Alexander Dewar, Norbert Domcsek, Thomas Nowotny, Paul Graham and Andrew Philippides Robustness of the Infomax Network for View Based Navigation of Long Routes 11:50 Wiktoria Rajewicz, Thomas Schmickl and Ronald Thenius Daphnia as a living sensor for underwater biohybrid systems 12:10 Kevin Ayala, Jared Moore and Anthony Clark Does Kinematic-Based Pretraining Improve Evolution of Quadrupedal Gaits? Read More
Special Session : ALife And Society II 11:10 Federico Pigozzi Of typewriters and PCs 11:30 Keynote Speaker (TBC)/ALife & Society Group Discussion (TBC) Read More
Workshop : Values in the machine part1
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Bio-inspired robotics III 14:00 Online Alex Szorkovszky, Frank Veenstra and Kyrre Glette Toward cultures of rhythm in legged robots 14:20 Online Dari Trendafilov, Ahmed Almansoori Timoteo Carletti and Elio Tuci. The role of the environment in collective perception: A generic complexity measure 14:40 Takahide Yoshida, Atsushi Masumori, Norihiro Maruyama, John Smith and Takashi Ikegami Development of Concept Representation of Behavior through Mimicking and Imitation in a Humanoid Robot Alter3 15:00 Nicolas Cambier, A.E Eiben and Eliseo Ferrante Emergent Naming System in an Unstructured Environment: a Shortest-Path Discovery Case Study Read More
Synthetic biology & Wet life 14:00 Reiji Suzuki, Kenta Asakura and Takaya Arita Lenia in a petri dish: Interactions between organisms and their environment in a Lenia with growth based on resource consumption 14:20 Penn Faulkner Rainford, Aalap Mogre, Victor Velasco-Berrelleza, Chares J Dorman, Sarah Harris, Carsten Kroeger and Susan Stepney A π-calculus Model of Supercoiling DNA Circuits 14:40 Minoru Kurisu, Peter Walde and Masayuki Imai Synthetic minimal cell with artificial metabolic pathways 15:00 Riku Adachi, Hiroki Kojima and Takashi Ikegami Life-like Behavior of an Oil Droplet in an Aqueous Surfactant Solution: Comparative Analysis with Tetrahymena Movement and Numerical Investigation Read More
ALife Encyclopedia Writing
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Workshop : Values in the machine part2
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Special Public Event with Ted Chiang
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Special Pannel Discussion - ALIFE from outside view
Panelists:
Kazuto Ataka (Keio University)
Ryota Kanai (Araya)
Emily Dardaman (BCG Henderson Institute)
Closing Remarks
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After Party
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