CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

For 14th International Workshop on Natural Computing, Tokyo, Japan
All times local in Tokyo
(Email addresses disguised, by replacement of '@')

https://www.natural-computing.com/iwnc-ws

January 20-22, 2023
The current (16 Jan) draft schedule for the conference (Tokyo times) is:

DAY 1
Saturday, January 21, 2023
# 10:00 - 10:15 Opening

# 10:15 - 10:45 Yasuhiro Suzuki (Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya
    University Japan) ysuzuki==nagoya-u.jp
    "Inter-Induce Computation, as a model of Computing with Tactile Sense"

# 11:00 -12:00 Shin-ichiro M. Nomura (Tohoku University, Japan)
    shinichiro.nomura.b5==tohoku.ac.jp
    INVITED TALK "Molecular cybernetics: viewpoints from the material side"

# 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch Break

# 13:30 - 14:30 Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan) km==hiroshima-u.ac.jp
    INVITED TALK "Time-reversal symmetries in reversible partitioned cellular
    automata"

# 14:45 - 15:45 Yukio-Pegio Gunji (Waseda University, Japan)
    pegioyukio==gmail.com
    INVITED TALK "Natural Born Intelligence and universal criticality"

# 16:00 - 16:30 Marcin J. Schroeder (IEHE Tohoku University Sendai Japan)
    mjs==gl.aiu.ac.jp [MAIN ORGANISER]
    "Merging Mathematical Models of Information for the Digital and Analog Computing"

# 16:45 - 17:45 Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham, UK) a.sloman==bham.ac.uk
    INVITED TALK "Recently hatched ideas about hatching and intelligence"

    [[Possible contribution from theoretical physicist here, with next item delayed.]]

# 18:00 - 18:30 Discussion & Reflections on Topics of the Day

DAY 2

Sunday, January 22, 2023
# 8:45 - 9:00 Opening of the Day

# 9:00 - 10:00 Michael Levin (Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, USA)
    Michael.Levin==tufts.edu"
    INVITED TALK "Bioelectrical networks enable navigation of anatomical morphospace
    in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer"

    [NB May turn out to have the most interesting recent biochemical discoveries]

# 10:15 - 10:45 Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan) hagiya==g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
    "Growing Point Automata and DNA Computing"

# 11:00 - 11:30 Attila Egri-Nagy (Akita International University, Akita, Japan)
    egrinagy==aiu.ac.jp "AI, games, and the problem of scientific realism"

# 11:45 - 12:15 Martin Robert (Laboratory of Microbial Systems Biology, Graduate
    School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan)
    robert.martin.4m==kyotou.ac.jp "Metabolism as one instantiation of natural computing"

# 12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

# 13:30 - 14:00 Akika Utsumi1, Toru Moriyama2 (Graduate School of Biomedical
    Engineering, Shinshu University, Japan) 21BS202A==shinshu-u.ac.jp1
    toru==shinshuu.ac.jp2
    "A study on the ability to regulate inverter for turn reaction in pill bugs"

# 14:15 - 14:45 Davin Browner (Robotics Laboratory, Royal College of Art, London,
    UK) davin.browner-conaty==network.rca.ac.uk "Electropolymeric electronics
    compiler approach to fabrication of ferroelectric memristors with
    applications in auditory neurotechnologies"

# 15:00 - 16:00 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University, Sweden)
    Gordana.dodig-crnkovic==chalmers.se
    INVITED TALK "Exploring the Connection Between Life,
    Cognition, and Intelligence through an Info-computational Approach"

# 16:15 - 17:15 Andrew Adamatzky (Unconventional Computing Laboratory UWE
    Bristol, UK) andrew.adamatzky==uwe.ac.uk
    INVITED TALK "Towards fungal brain: sensing and computing with fungi"

# 17:30 - 18:30
    Discussion on the future directions in the inquiry of natural computing

# 18:30 Closing