AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:50

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Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, I
Room 104, Chemistry Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Controlling chaos in distributed systems.
  Bernado Huberman*, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California and Stanford University
  (865-68-159)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The possible role of ascendency in neural networks.
  Ken Bosworth*, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons
  Bob Ulanowicz, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons
  (865-68-169)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Evolving transformation systems: A new symbiosis of the discrete and the continuous.
  Lev Goldfarb*, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
  (865-68-35)

Friday March 22, 1991, 1:40 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, II
Room 104, Chemistry Building
- 1:40 p.m.
  Emergent computation, genetic algorithms, and the immune system.
  Stephanie Forrest*, University of New Mexico
  (865-68-168)
- 2:10 p.m.
  Periodic behaviors of deterministic interactionless Lindenmayer systems.
  Tom Head*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (865-68-166)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Evolution as a theme in artificial life.
  David Jefferson*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (865-68-165)

Saturday March 23, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, III
Room 104, Chemistry Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Computation at the edge of chaos: Phase transition and emergent computation.
  Christopher Langton*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (865-68-170)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Evolution of communication in a population of simple machines.
  Bruce MacLennan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (865-68-164)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The computational complexity of discrete feedforward neural networks.
  Ian Parberry*, Univesity of North Texas
  (865-68-163)

Saturday March 23, 1991, 1:40 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, IV
Room 104, Chemistry Building
- 1:40 p.m.
  Asynchronous distributed computation: A topological approach to proving generic properties.
  Richard Stark*, University of South Florida
  (865-68-162)
- 2:10 p.m.
  Cellular dynamics and information content: Issues arising in theoretical and computational gerentology.
  Matthew Witten*, University of Texas, Austin
  (865-68-161)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Evolutions of cellular automata configurations.
  Sheng Yu*, University of Western Ontario
  (865-68-160)

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