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Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology - June 2nd 2009 - University of Bristol

The next MCB meeting will be hosted by James Marshall at the University of Bristol. Full details can be found at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~cassey/mcb2009/index.jsp

Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology - June 24th 2008 - HP Labs

The next MCB meeting will be hosted by Steve Cayzer at HP Labs. Full details can be found at http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/mcb08/

Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology - June 8th 2007 - University of Bath

The next MCB meeting will be hosted by Joanna Bryson at the University of Bath. Full details can be found at http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/ai/MCB07.html

Systems Biology Speed-Dating Event - December 20th 2005 - University of Bristol

The University of Bristol is hosting a networking event for researchers interested in biology, medicine and cognition, and the modelling and simulation of the complex systems involved in those areas. The event will include talks from funders (BBSRC and EPSRC), invited expert speakers, and research 'speed-dating'. This event is primarily for researchers based in the University of Bristol, but interested local researchers may also attend. Further details will be made available shortly at http://www.bris.ac.uk/systemsbiology/.

Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology - June 24th 2005 - University of the West of England

The most recent MCB meeting was hosted on June 24th 2005 by Larry Bull at the University of the West of England.

More details are available here

COGNIT/MCB/SERVE Illumination Meeting - December 14th 2004 - University of Bristol

The aim of this meeting was to provide samples of inter-disciplinary research which is being carried out by groups interested in computational models of information processing in biological systems.

More details are available here

Inaugural Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology - June 21st 2004 - University of Bristol

Introduction

The Bristol and Bath area is home to a number of high quality research groups in biology, mathematical and computational biology, biologically-inspired computation and robotics. On June 21st the University of Bristol capitalised on this by hosting a regional meeting attended by representatives from these disciplines at the Universities of Bristol, Bath and the West of England.

Organisers

Date and Time

Monday, June 21st 2004, 9:30

Venue

The meeting was hosted at Royal Fort House, University of Bristol.

Participants

University of Bristol

  • Anthony Aleksiev (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Roland Baddeley (Department of Experimental Psychology)
  • Rafal Bogacz (Department of Computer Science)
  • Sean Collins (Department of Mathematics)
  • FX Dechaume Moncharmont (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Anna Dornhaus (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Nigel Franks (School of Biological Sciences)
  • James Hooper (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Alisdair Houston (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Tim Kovacs (Department of Computer Science)
  • Elizabeth Langridge (School of Biological Sciences)
  • James Marshall (Department of Computer Science)
  • John McNamara (Department of Mathematics)
  • Julian Partridge (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Tom Richardson (School of Biological Sciences)
  • Benjamin Vincent (Department of Experimental Psychology)
  • Elaine Wilson (Department of Mathematics)

University of Bath

  • Alwyn Barry (Department of Computer Science)
  • Nick Britton (Department of Mathematical Sciences)
  • Joanna Bryson (Department of Computer Science)
  • Dick James (Department of Physics)
  • Alex Jeffries (Department of Biology and Biochemistry)
  • David Mawdsley (Department of Physics)
  • Will Megill (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Michael Mogie (Department of Biology and Biochemistry)

University of the West of England

  • Andrew Adamtzky (Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences)
  • Larry Bull (School of Computer Science)
  • Ana Sendova-Franks (Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences)
  • James Smith (Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences)
  • Robert Smith (School of Computer Science)
  • Matt Studley (Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences)
  • Tim Swift (School of Mathematical Sciences)

Programme

Time Speaker Title
9:30 - 9:45 - Welcome from the organisers
9:45 - 10:00 Roland Baddeley What are the Visual Characteristics of the World that Determine Where We Look?
10:00 - 10:15 Dick James Social Networks of Group Living Animals
10:15 - 10:30 Joanna Bryson Artificial Intelligence Models of Primate Intelligence
10:30 - 10:45 Benjamin Vincent Energy Efficiency and the Brain
10:45 - 11:00 Rafal Bogacz How Does the Brain Take Optimal Decisions?
11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee
11:30 - 11:45 Nigel Franks Social Insects as Model Organisations
11:45 - 12:00 Anna Dornhaus Collection and Distribution of Information in Social Insect Colonies
12:00 - 12:15 FX Dechaume Moncharmont Lazy as a Bee
12:15 - 12:30 James Marshall Social Insects: An Interface Between Biology and Computer Science
12:30 - 12:45 Nick Britton Cheats Never Prosper? A Botanical Example
12:45 - 13:00 Ana Sendova-Franks The Fluid Topology of Adaptive Organisation
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Matt Studley Biologically-Inspired Robotics: An Overview of Work at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab, UWE
14:15 - 14:30 James Smith On Coevolving Solutions and Learning Strategies (HP Model Protein Structure Prediction as a Case Study)
14:30 - 14:45 Alex Jeffries Could Ripped Genes be Back in Fashion?
14:45 - 15:00 Tim Swift Spaces of Subspaces
15:00 - 15:15 John McNamara Games, Routines and Other Distractions
15:15 - 15:45 - Coffee
15:45 - 16:00 Tim Kovacs Strength or Accuracy? Credit Assignment in Learning Classifier Systems
16:00 - 16:15 Larry Bull Neural Constructivism-Inspired Learning Classifier Systems
16:15 - 16:30 Alwyn Barry Delayed Reward Learning and Coordinated Behaviours
16:30 - 17:15 - Round-Table Discussion

 

  

 

 
       
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