2015 TRUCE Summer School on Unconventional Computation

August 31-September 4, 2015 - Málaga, Spain.

An intensive one-week programme, comprising  lectures from leading researchers in unconventional computation, independent workgroups, and (of course!) leisure time, set in the beautiful surroundings of Andalusia, Spain.

Applications for the summer school have now closed.

Travel information

Venue: the school will be held in the Sala de Grados A, ETSI Informatica (the Computer Science building of the University of Malaga), located at Campus de Teatinos, in the west-side of the city limits (Google Maps link). It is very well connected by bus to the city centre and to the Technology Park, and rather close to the airport and train/bus station. 

Information on travelling to and from the airport is available here.

Residence: it will be located in Teatinos, a lively neighborhood, full of restaurants and bars, and within walking distance from the Computer Science building. The residence block itself is located at

Calle Teseo, 12, 29010 Málaga
Tel: 951 01 01 80
Website

From downtown, several city buses will take you to Teatinos (more details here), as well as the subway (stop: "Clinico": more details here). A taxi from the airport to the residences should cost no more than about 15EUR.

Questions on the summer school may be addressed to the project coordinator, Prof. Martyn Amos (M.Amos@mmu.ac.uk)

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Lectures will be presented by:

Jitka Cejkova (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic)
Chemotaxis of living and non-living objects

Paolo Dini (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
An Interdisciplinary Overview of Interaction Computing

Angel Goñi-Moreno (CNB, Spain)
Modelling the basics of synthetic biology

Simon Harding (Machine Intelligence, UK)
Genetic programming

Simon Hickinbotham (University of York, UK)
Computation at the origin of life

Zoran Konkoli (Chalmers, Sweden)
Understanding the expressive power of chemical computing

John McCaskill (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
The best of both worlds: linking electronic and chemical computation in autonomous lablets

Julian Miller (University of York, UK)
Evolution-in-materio: Giving evolution the freedom to exploit the unknown

Detailed list of lecture abstracts.