PACE REPORT

2007-8

Bedau, M.A.: Simulations in artificial life. Keynote address, Third Models and Simulations Conference, University of Virginia, 5-7 March 2009, Charlottesville.

Bedau, M.A.: The second creation: social and ethical implications of recreating life in the laboratory. Invited presentation, Roskilde Science Sunrise Conference, 13-15 August 2008, Roskilde, Denmark.

Bedau, M.A.: 100x more efficient discovery and optimization for high-throughput screening. Oral presentation, 3rd Assay Development and Screening Technologies Conference, San Francisco, 5-6 June 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: Artificial cells: the second creation of life. Invited seminar, European School for Molecular Medicine, IFOM-IEO Campus, Milan, 28 April 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: Pluralism about emergence. Invited lecture, Workshop on Emergence, Erice, Italy, 12-16 April 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: Creating life. Invited lecture, Darwin Day Symposium on the Origins and Early Evolution of Life, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University, February 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: A roadmap to minimal chemical life. Invited lecture, Conference on Defining Life, CNRS, Paris, 5 February 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: Can a unique definition of life be formulated? Round table with Mark Bedau, Hugues Bersini, Patrick Forterre, Antonio Lazcano, Pier Luigi Luisi, Alvaro Moreno, Radu Popa, and Bruce Weber, Conference on Defining Life, CNRS, Paris, 5 February 2008.

Bedau, M.A.: Evolutionary search for complex chemical systems. Invited colloquium, Chemistry Department, Reed College, 20 September 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: Weak emergence. Contributed talk, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, England, 29 July 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: Pluralism about emergence. Contributed talk, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, England, 28 July 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: The unsolved mystery of why evolution is so creative. Invited keynote lecture, European Conference of Computing and Philosophy (ECAP 2007), University of Twente, Netherlands, 21-23 July 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: A defense of pluralism about emergence. Invited lecture, conference on Emergence in Science and Philosophy, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy, 19-21 June, 2007. 

Bedau, M.A.: The creative evolution of technology. Invited lecture, International Conference on Living Technology, European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy, 25-26 May 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: Statistical models for evolutionary design of complex chemistry. Invited presentation, Workshop on Embodied Evolution, European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy, 15-16 May 2007.

Bedau, M.A.: Living technology: scientific prospects, practical applications, and social implications. Invited Engineering, Technology, and Culture lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 11 April 2007.

Eggenberger Hotz, P, Füchslin, R. M., Hadorn, M., Miyashita,. S.: PACE: Artificial Cells as Building Blocks for Modular Robotic Systems,  Poster presentation ‘20 Years Artificial Intelligence Lab, 2007.

Filisetti, A., Serra, R., Carletti, T., Poli, I., Villani, M.: Synchronization phenomena in protocell models. BIOMAT2007, International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, 2007.

Forlin, M., Poli, I., De March, D., Packard, N., Serra, R.: Evolving the experimental design for amphiphilic systems, European Symposium on Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems, (www.nisis.de), Malta. 2007.

Forlin, M., Poli, I., De March, D., Slanzi, D., Serra, R.: Model-based evolutionary designs  for biological complex systems experimentation, European Conference on Complex Systems, JECCS08, 2008.

Füchslin, R. M.: Dynamic compartmentalization using mpRDPD, Invited lecture PACE Summer School, May 2008, San Servolo, Italy. 

Füchslin, R. M.: Patterns, Circuits, Inductive Generalization, Evolution: Towards Realistic Models, Invited lecture PACE Summer School, May 2008, San Servolo, Italy. 

Füchslin, R. M.: Patterns, Circuits, Inductive Generalization, Evolution: Towards Realistic Models, Talk at the AILab, Zürich Univ. Dec. 2007.

Füchslin, R. M.: Evolutionary Algorithms for Self-Assembling Systems: Simulations as a Tool for Optimizing Optimization, ODES workshop, 15. 7. 2007, Venice.

Görnerup, O., A method for inferring hierarchical dynamics in stochastic processes, ECLT workshop, March, 2008.

Kelly, C., McMullin, B., O'Brien, D., Mitchell, G.G. Speroni di Fenizio, P.:  The Evolution of Complexity in a Multi-Level Artificial Chemistry.Poster presentation at European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS-07), Dresden, Germany, 2007

Lindgren, K.: Flows of information in chemical pattern formation, talk at Modelling Complex Biological Systems in the Context of Genomics, Evry, 3 May, 2007.

Lindgren, K.: Quantifying spatial structure in dynamical systems — from microscopic reversibility to macroscopic irreversibility, talk at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Nov. 2007.

Lindgren, K.: Self-replicating patterns: dynamics, energy, and information, talk at Joint Nordic Astrobiology and Swedish Astrobiology Network Meeting, Stockholm, Nov. 6-7, 2007.

Lindgren, K.: Self-replicating patterns and information dynamics, AlbaNova and Nordita Colloqium, Stockholm, Febr. 7, 2008.

Lindgren, K.: A dynamical systems route to complexity, lecture at ECLT Summer School Blueprint for an artificial cell, ECLT, 8 May, 2008.

Lindgren, K.: Quantifying spatial structure in symbol sequences — identifying correlations and local information, talk at Statistical Semantics of Genomes: From Sequence to Function, Evry, May 27-29, 2008.

McCaskill, J.: Complementation Systems for Genetic Self- assembly, ECLT International Conference on Living Technology, Venice, May 2007 

McCaskill, J.: Living Technology: Complementing Evolution and Self-assembly, invited seminar, Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, May 2007

McCaskill, J.: Programmable artificial cell evolution, PACE, invited presentation, Complex Research Projects Forum at ECCS 08, Dresden, October 2007, Position Paper available at:  http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/cosiict-ws-oct07_en.html#presentations

McCaskill, J.: Directing evolutionary self-organisation, invited lecture, Para Limes Conference ‘Science without boundaries’, October 2007

McCaskill, J.: Alternative bio-inspired ICT’s, FET Workshop on alternative bio-inspired ICT’s, Brussels, February 2008

McCaskill, J.: Autopoietic vesicular protocells by mprDPD, ECLT Protocell Modelling Workshop, Venice, March 2008

McCaskill, J.: Evolvable electronic chemical cells and programmable chemistry for ICT: Theoretical background, PACE/ECLT Summer School, Blueprint for an Artificial Cell, San Servolo, Venice, 4-17th May 2008.

McCaskill, J.: Physics of genetically-programmable self-organizing systems: towards artificial chemical cells for intelligent microscopic construction. FIAS, Frankfurt, July 2008

McMullin, B.: A computational approach to What is life?, PACE/ECLT Summer School, Blueprint for an Artificial Cell, San Servolo, Venice, 4-17th May 2008.

McMullin, B.: Evolving Computation in Protocells: Harder than it might seem! Protocell Modelling Workshop. ECLT, Venice, 10-12 March 2008

Nilsson Jacobi, M.: Dynamical hierarchies, ECCS07 in Dresden, October 2007.

Nyström, J., Potts-based simulation model for physically self-assembling units, ECLT workshop, March, 2008.

Packard, N.: Exploration and Exploitation in Complex Experimental Designs MITSOCS, Mathematics In The Science Of Complex Systems, workshop organized at ECLT, 2008.

Packard, N.: Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, Chemical Genetic Algorithms, PACE/ECLT Summer School, Blueprint for an Artificial Cell, San Servolo, Venice, 4-17th May 2008.

Poli, I.: Complex Systems Experimental Designs, MITSOCS, Mathematics In The     Science Of Complex Systems (workshop organized at ECLT), 2008.

Poli, I.: Combinatorial experimental designs and statistical models, PACE/ECLT Summer School, Blueprint for an Artificial Cell, San Servolo, Venice, 4-17th May 2008.

Slanzi, D., Forlin, M. , De March, D., Poli, I.: Probabilistic networks for high dimensional biochemical systems, European Conference on Complex Systems, JECCS08, 2008.

Slanzi, D., Poli, I., De March, D. and Forlin, M.: Bayesian Networks for High-dimensional Experiments, International Conference on Bayesian Analysis of High dimensional Data, CRiSM Workshop , Warwick, UK, 2008.

Slanzi, D., Poli, I., De March, D. and Forlin, M.: Bayesian Networks for Detecting Relevant Variables Interactions for Biochemical Experiments, Risk and Prediction, SIS, Venezia, 2007.

Tamulis, A.: Quantum Mechanical Self-Assembling of Artificial Minimal Cells and Control by Molecular Electronics and Spintronics Logical Devices, COST D27 Final Evaluation conference Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution, Inter – University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 11 - 13, 2007. 

Tamulis, A.: Quantum mechanical modeling of artificial minimal living cells, 37th Lithuanian national physics conference, June 11-13, 2007. 

Tamulis, A.: invited lecture, Quantum Mechanical Self-assembling of Artificial Minimal Cells and Control by Molecular Electronics and Spintronics Logical Devices, in international Nanotechnology School on Nanostructured materials for biosensors and medicine, 2008, February 18-22, School place: Klaipeda hotel, L. Stuokos–Guceviciaus street 3, Vilnius.  

Tamulis, A.: Quantum Self-Assembly of Artificial Living Cell and Molecular Electronics Control of Photosynthesis and Gene Dehybridization, presentation at European Center For Living Technology Workshop on Protocell Modelling, March, 10-12, 2008, Venice.  

Tamulis, A.: invited lecture, Quantum mechanical processes of self-assembly, photosynthesis and control of artificial living cells, Workshop of „Biomedicine Physics and Nanophotonics Studies Center, 2008-04-29, Hotel Best Western „Naujasis Vilnius, Konstitucijos ave. No 14, Vilnius, Lithuania.  

Tamulis, A.: invited lecture, Quantum mechanical self-assembly of artificial living cells, photosynthesis and control, International conference on „Innovative Medicine, May 22-24, 2008, Hotel „ARTIS, Liejyklos str. No 11/25, Vilnius, Lithuania.  

Tamulis, A.: Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Artificial Minimal Living Cells, in Cell Model Systems Summer School CNR, Rome, 8-13 June, 2008. 

Tangen, U.: On striving for open-ended evolution to improve the means for optimization-problems in the field of engineering. Embodied Evolution Workshop, ECLT Venice, 2007.

Tangen, U. Enzyme-like replication de novo in a micro-controller environment, ProtoCell-Modelling-Workshop ECLT,Venice, 2008.

Tangen, U. Evolutionary self organization of digital systems, ECLT-Summerschool, Venice, 2008.

Tangen, U.: Enzyme-like replication de novo in a micro-controller environment GWAL-2008 (German Workshop on Artificial Life) Keynote-Lecture, Leipzig, 2008.

Wagler, P.F.: Microfluidics as a tool for designing artificial cells, ECLT Summerschool Blueprint for an Artificial Cell (May 4-17 2008 in Venice).

Wagler, P.F.: Electronically programmable membranes and improved biomolecule handling on microfluidic biochips, Micro and Nano Technologies (MiNaT) Congress in Stuttgart, Germany, June 2007.

 

Nystrom, J., Higher-order self-assembly through morphological growth of artificial cells  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

Serra, R., Conditions for syncronization  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

Shaw, R., Flow on shapes  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

Tamulis, A., Quantum self-assembly of artificial living cell and molecular electronics control of photosynthesis and gene de-hybridization  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

Tangen, U., Evolutionary information generation and stabilization of a protocell  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

Tunstrom, K., Coarse graining of united atoms fluid  (2008) paper presented at the Protocell Modelling Workshop, European Centre for Living Technology, Minich, 10/03/2008.

2006-7

Bedau, M.A: Evolutionary design of complex chemical systems. Invited keynote lecture, Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (AISB’06), University of Bristol, Bristol, England, 3 April 2006.

Bedau, M.A: Automated design of artificial life forms from scratch. Invited plenary presentation, 7th German Workshop on Artificial Life, Jena, Germany, 26-28 July 2006.

Bedau, M.A: Protocells illustrate NBIC convergence and its social and ethical implications. Presentation at a Workshop on the Ethical and Social Implications of the Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Convergence, Avignon, France, 17-19 Dec 2006.

Bedau, M.A: The second creation of life. Systems Biology and Informatics Seminar, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, Feb 2007.

Bedau, M.A: The social and ethical implications of synthesizing living entities, BBSRC Synthetic Biology Workshop, Wiltshire, England, 7 February 2007.

Bedau, M.A: The second creation of life, Life Sciences Institute Lecture, University of Southampton, Southampton, England, 14 February 2007.

Bedau, M.A: Ethical and social aspects of systems biology research, Invited plenary lecture, ERASysBio Strategy Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 28 March 2007.

Bedau, M.A: Living technology: scientific prospects, practical applications, and social implications, Invited Engineering, Technology and Culture lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 11 April 2007.

Carletti, T.: Protocells under the Chemoton hypothesis may evolve: Emergence of species, Workshop WIVA3, 12–15 September 2006, Collegio, S. Chiara, Siena (Italy), 14 September 2006.

Carletti, T.: Evolution of a Population of Protocells: Emergence of Species, BIOMAT 2006, 25–30 November 2006, Manaus, Amazonia Brasil, 30 November 2006.

Carletti, T.: Surface–Reaction Models of Protocells, BIOMAT 2006, 25–30 November 2006, Manaus, Amazonia Brasil, 27 November 2006.

Carletti, T.: From chemical reactions to species, Workshop: Modelling Populations of Protocells, ECLT, Venezia, March 2007.

Eggenberger Hotz, P. and Füchslin, R.M. (Joint talk): Simulation of Assembling Vesicular Structures, ECLT workshop on simulation and self-assembly, Venice, Italy, March 20-21 2007.

Eriksson, A.: A framework for simulating combined lipid/template growth synchronisation and template evolution, PACE Workshop: Modelling populations of protocells. ECLT, 18-19 March 2007.

Fellermann, H., Rasmussen, S., Ziock, H., Solé, R.V.: Dissipative particle dynamics simulation of the Los Alamos Bug, Mesoscopic Simulation Workshop, European Center for LivingTechnology, Venice, Italy, October 3, 2006.

Fellermann, H., Rasmussen, S., Ziock, H., Solé, R.V.: Dissipative particle dynamics simulation of the Los Alamos Protocell, Protocell Simulation Workshop, European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy, March 18-19, 2007.

Fellermann, H., Rasmussen, S., Ziock, H., Solé, R.V.: A simple model of self-replicating protocells, 4th Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNANO07), Snowbird, UT, USA, April 18-21, 2007.

Füchslin, R.M.: Dynamic compartmentalization using mprDPD, talk at the ECLT workshop on mesoscopic simulation, Venice Italy, October 2-14, 2006.

Füchslin, F., Maeke, T. and  McCaskill, J.S.: Studying dynamic compartmentalization using mpRDPD, Satellite Workshop at ECCS 06, Paris, November 2006

Füchslin, R.M.: Evolving Self-Assembling Digital Circuitry: Towards Realistic Models, Int. Conf. on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, March 26-28 2007.

Goranovic, G.: Artificial living systems in microfluidic computers, invited talk, Department of Micro and Nanotechnology (MIC), Technical University of Denmark, Oct 2006.

Goranovic, G., Rasmussen, S. and Nielsen, P.: Artificial life forms in microfluidic computers, É TAS2006, Tokyo, Japan, November 5-9, 2006.

Hellwig, N.: An experimental approach towards a protocell based on the chemoton idea, ECLT PACE-PA Workshop, Venice, March 2007.

Jiang, Y.: Protocell assembly, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June, 2006.

Jiang, Y.: Modeling self-assembly: Protocell and functional macromolecules, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, July, 2006.

Jiang, Y.: Protocell assembly, APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, March 5, 2007.

Lindgren, K.: Flows of information in chemical pattern formation, at workshop Morphogenesis from different viewpoints, Nov. 18-19, 2006, Göteborg.

McCaskill, J.S.: Bringing Complex Systems to Life: the PACE project in embedded IT, IST 06 Event – Strategies for Leadership, Helsinki, 21-23 November, 2006.

McCaskill, J.S.: Evolving amphiphiles and electronic membranes: a fast track to simple cells and complex chemistry, MPI Winterseminar on Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions, 13-27 January, 2007.

McCaskill, J.S.: Evolving self-assembling molecular recognition systems, International Conference on Morphological Computation, ICMC07, Venice, March 26-28, 2007.

McCaskill, J.S.: Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution, Evry spring school, Paris, May 2-3, 2007.

McMullin, B.: Preliminary Steps toward Artificial Protocell Computation, PACE Workshop: Chemical Evolution and Self-Assembly. ECLT, 21-22 March 2007.

McMullin, B., Kelly, C., O'Brien, D., Mitchell, G. and Decraene, J.: Preliminary Steps toward Artificial Protocell Computation, International Conference on Morphological Computation (ICMC-07). Venice, Italy, March 27-28th, 2007.

Miyashita, S., Hadron, M. and Eggenberger Hotz, P.: Technical Proposal for an Active Floating Element, Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary summit of AI (ASAI50), July 2006.

Munteanu, A. and Solé, R.V.: Models of artificial protocells, Poster presented at Winter School: Systems Biology for Medical Applications 27th February - 2nd March 2007.

Nielsen, P.: Erice Meeting on Basic questions about the origin of life, Erice, Italy, Oct, 2006.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.: Quotient Manifold Projections and Hierarchical Dynamics, European Conference on Complex System – ECCS06. Oxford, September, 2006.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.: Error thresholds in multi-level replicator systems, PACE Workshop: Chemical Evolution and Self-Assembly. ECLT, 21-22 March 2007.

Nyström, J.: Presentation of Prototype Simulation Package for Physically Self-Assembling Units, PACE Workshop: Chemical Evolution and Self-Assembly. ECLT, 21-22 March 2007.

Patzke, V.: Thiol disulfide exchange reactions in oligonucleotide replication, ECLT PACE-PA Workshop, Venice, March 2007.

Poli, I.: Model-based Design for combinatorially complex experiments, Workshop WIVA3, 12–15 September 2006, Collegio S.Chiara, Siena (Italy),16 September 2006.

Poli, I.: Modelling Genetic Algorithms (MGAs) for experimental design, workshop on chemical evolution and self-assembly, ECLT, Venezia, 21 March 2007.

Rasmussen, S., Bailey, J.A., Boncella, J.M., Chen, L., Collis, G., Colgate, S., DeClue, M.S., Fellermann, H., Goranovic, G., Jiang, Y., Knutson, C., Monnard, P.-A., Mouffouk, F., Nielsen, P., Sen, A., Shreve, A., Tamulis, A., Travis, B., Weronski, P., Woodruff, W.H., Zhang, J., Zhou, X. and Ziock, H.: Protocells: Minimal self-replicating nano-machines (Key note presentation), 3rd Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO06), April 23-27, 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembly of minimal life, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA, September 6, 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: Summary of protocell modeling efforts in Pas, Protocell Simulation Workshop, European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy, March 18-19, 2007.

Rasmussen, S.: Self-replicating materials, information processing and the omega machine, CNLS/SFI Workshop on Unconventional Computing, Santa Fe, NM, USA, March 21-23, 2007.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembly of a minimal protocell, linking genetics, container and metabolism, IEEE Computational Intelligence Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.

Rasmussen, S.: Self-replicating materials and living technology, 1st International Conference on Living Technology, May 21-22, 2007, accepted.

Schroer, J. P. , and Lindgren, K.: Simulation of higher-order self-assembly, poster at European Conference on Complex System – ECCS06. Oxford, September 2006.

Serra, R.: Emergent synchronization in protocell models, Workshop WIVA3, 12–15 September 2006, Collegio S. Chiara, Siena (Italy), 14 September 2006.

Serra, R.: Is synchronization generic?, Workshop : Modelling, Populations of Protocells, ECLT, Venezia, 18 March 2007.

Solé, R.V.: Etude dâs un modelle de protocellule, Ecole Formation Doctorale 23-27 January 2006, Universita de Namur (Belgium), 24 January 2006.

Solé, R.V.: Stability, mutations and evolution of a population of Chemotons, Workshop Evolution and Self-Assembly, 16-18 March 2006, ECLT ,Venezia (Italy), 18 March 2006.

Solé, R.V.: Protocells under the Chemoton hypothesis may evolve: Emergence of species, Workshop WIVA3, 12-15 September 2006, Collegio S.Chiara, Siena (Italy), 14 September 2006.

Solé, R.V.: Surface Reaction Models of Protocells, BIOMAT 2006, 25-30 Novembre 2006, Manaus, Amazonia Brasil, 27 November 2006.

Solé, R.V.: Evolution of a Population of Protocells: Emergence of Species, BIOMAT 2006, 25-30 November 2006, Manaus, Amazonia Brasil, 30 November 2006.

Solé, R.V.: From chemical reactions to species, Workshop: Modelling Populations of Protocells, ECLT, Venezia (Italy) 19 March 2007.

Tangen, U.  From evolving software towards models of dynamically self-assembling processing systems, ECCS 2006, Oxford UK.

Tangen, U.: From evolving software towards models of dynamically assembled macro-molecules, Lecture at Zurich University, Dept. of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 24th January 2007.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Nobel workshop in chemistry On the origin of life, Sanga Saby conf. center, Stockholm, 09.06.06.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: What-is-Life? series, Karolinska Inst., Stockholm, 26.10.06.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Chembiogenesis 2006, 5th COST D27 annual meeting, Barcelona, 15.12.06.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Coll. Theor. Chem., RUB, Bochum, 20.12.06.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: GDCh meeting on NMR problems, RUB, Bochum, 15.01.07.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Coll. Org. Chem., Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany, 06.02.07.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: SymPOC 2007, Cardiff, UK, 19.04.07.

Wagler, P.F. and Tangen, U.: Microfluidic complementation and feedback, as part of ECLT PACE-PA Workshop, in Venice, March 15-16 2007.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Application of molecular dynamics computer simulations in the design of a minimal self-replicating molecular machine, 6thUnderstanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, May 15-18, 2006.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular dynamics simulations of micellar dynamics and stability, Symposium 2006 Championing Scientific Careers, Los Alamos, NM, USA, August 2-3, 2006.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular dynamics study of small PNA molecules in lipid-water system, Symposium 2006 Championing Scientific Careers, Los Alamos, NM, USA, August 2-3, 2006.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular dynamics study of peptide nucleic acid affinity to lipid bilayer, 2006, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, November 27 - December 1, 2006.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular dynamics simulations of micellar dynamics and stability, 2006, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, November 27 - December 1, 2006.

Weronski, P., Jiang, Y. and Rasmussen, S.: Application of molecular dynamics computer simulations in the design of a minimal self-replicating molecular machine, 4th Annual Conference on Fundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNANO07), Snowbird, UT, USA, April 18-21, 2007.

Zhou,X.: A General Method to Extend Molecular Dynamics Timescale in Atomistic Fluids: Time-Space Compression, Pair-Correlation Approximation and Applications, 6th understanding complex systems symposium, Champaign-Urbana, May 2006

Zhou,X.: A General Method to extend Molecular Dynamics Timescale In Atomistic Entropic Systems: Time-Space Compression, Pair-Correlation Approximation, High-Dimensional Density Proofreading and Application, 232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, September 10-14, 2006.

Bedau, M., Craacc concept, goals overview, admin matters  (2006) paper presented at the The Critical Assessment of Artificial Chemical Cell (CRAACC), ECLT, 20/07/2006.

Bedau, M., Statistical models for evolutionary design of complex chemistry  (2007) paper presented at the Embodied Evolution of Complex Experimental Systems (EmboEvo), ECLT, 15/05/2007.

Bedau, M., The creative evolution of technology  (2007) paper presented at the Living Technology, Minich, 25/05/2007.

Bedau, M., A functional language for protocell schemes  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Bedau, M., The micelle effect  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Cawse, J., Genetic algorithms as screening designs  (2007) paper presented at the Embodied Evolution of Complex Experimental Systems (EmboEvo), ECLT, 15/05/2007.

Cawse, J., Genetic algorithms as screening designs  (2007) paper presented at the Optimization and Design of ExperimentS (ODES), ECLT, 15/06/2007.

Dieckmann, A., Kinetic and computational analysis of a fulvene replicator  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Fellerman, H., Dpd modelling of protocell life-cycle  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Forlin, M., Model-based genetic algorithms for designing      mixture experiments  (2007) paper presented at the Optimization and Design of ExperimentS (ODES), ECLT, 15/06/2007.

Füchslin, R., Evolutionary algorithms for self-assembling systems: Simulations as a tool for the development of novel optimization strategies  (2007) paper presented at the Optimization and Design of ExperimentS (ODES), ECLT, 15/06/2007.

Goranovic, G., Protocells in microfluidic environment  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Hayden, E., Toward the kinetic analysis of a self-replicating ribozyme  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Algorithms simfit  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Commands simfit  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Examples simfit  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Introduction to simfit  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Kinetic nmr titration of the tweezer-catalyzed pyridine alkylation  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Systems chemistry: From chemical self- to virus-shaped biomimetic artefacts  (2007) paper presented at the Living Technology, Minich, 25/05/2007.

McCaskill, J., Evolving amphiphilic systems  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Packard, N., Self-assembly and chemical reactions at the transition to life  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Plöger, T., Toward pna replication analysis via kinetic titrations using 19f nmr spectroscopy  (2007) paper presented at the Dynamic Modelling and Kinetic Data Fitting Using Sim-Fit – A practical approach, ECLT, 30/06/2007.

Poli, I., Modeling evolutionary designs of experiments  (2007) paper presented at the Optimization and Design of ExperimentS (ODES), ECLT, 15/06/2007.

Rasmussen, S., Living technology based on self-replicating materials  (2007) paper presented at the Living Technology, Minich, 25/05/2007.

Tamulis, A., Quantum processes of self assembly  (2007) paper presented at the PROTOCELL MODELLING, ECLT, 18/03/2007.

Tangen, U., Evolution of computer hardware  (2007) paper presented at the Embodied Evolution of Complex Experimental Systems (EmboEvo), ECLT, 15/05/2007.

Tangen, U., Microfluidics in an integrated system: Pros and cons of the pico-liter chemistry  (2007) paper presented at the Optimization and Design of ExperimentS (ODES), ECLT, 15/06/2007.

2005-6

Bedau, M.A.: Evolutionary design of self-assembling complex chemical systems. Workshop on Evolution and Self-assembly, ECLT, March 2006

Bedau, M.A.: Creating artificial cells, Invited keynote address, ACAL-05,  Australian Conference on Artificial Life, 7 December 2005, Sydney

Bedau, M.A.: Creating artificial cells, Invited seminar, Australian Defense Force Academy, 9 December 2005, Canberra

Bedau, M.A.: Living technology, Inaugural Distinguished Computer Science Seminar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, 11 April 2005

Bedau, M.A.: Computational models of evolutionary creativity, Douglas Engelbart Keynote Address, North American Computers and Philosophy Conference, 6 August 2005

Bedau, M.A.: Adaptation and the edge of chaos. Invited presentation, Workshop on Evolution, Information, and Computation, European Center for Living Technology, 24 May 2005

Bedau, M.A.: Evolutionary design of complex chemical systems Invited seminar, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 25 April 2006, Zurich, Switzerland

Bedau, M.A.: ECLT, PACE, and ProtoLife’s evolutionary design of complex chemical systems, Invited talk ChellNet meeting, University of Nottingham, 6 April 2006 Nottingham, England

Bedau, M.A.: Evolutionary design of complex chemical systems, Invited keynote lecture, Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (AISB’06), 3 April 2006, University of Bristol, Bristol, England

Boncella, J., Bailey, J. and Collis, G.: Ruthenium Photocatalysis as an Integrated Approach to Coupling the Container Metabolism to the Information System of a Protocell, PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005

Buchanan, A.: Software for evolving chemical reaction networks, ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006

Buchanan, A.: Evolutionary Design of a DDPD Model of Ligation, 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, Lille, France October 2005

Carletti, T.:Chemoton Model: the shape does matter, PACE-PA Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005

Carletti, T.:Chemoton Model: the geometry can affect the dynamics, System Chemistry, ECLT, Venice , October 3-4, 2005

Carletti, T.:Chemoton Model: stability, mutation and evolution of Chemoton families, PACE Workshop Evolution and Self Assembly, ECLT Venice, March 16-18, 2006

Eriksson, A.: Determining DPD parameters from Physical Properties, PACE-PAs science coordination workshop, LANL, July 19-23, 2005

Füchslin, R.M., Maeke, T., Tangen, U., McCaskill, J. S.: Genetic Self-Assembly: a novel route to complex design, poster at ECCS 05, Paris, France, 2005.

Görnerup, O.:Container growth and replicator dynamics in pre-biotic chemistry. European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris, France, November 2005.

Görnerup, O. and Nilsson Jacobi, M.J.:  Container Growth and Replicator Dynamics in Prebiotic Chemistry, Life Matters Conversations in Bionanotechnology, poster presentation at Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden, October 2005.

Goranović, G.: A protocell's life cycle, PACE/PA coordination workshop, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, July 18-23, 2005 (invited talk)

Goranović, G.: Microfluidic approach to the onset of life, Seminars in Astrobiology, NORDITA Copenhagen, Nov 2005 (invited talk)

Jiang, Y.:  Vesicle in flow: Elasticity, phase separation and hydrodynamics, T-7 group seminar, Los Alamos, May 2005.

Jiang, Y.: News from Los Alamos. PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005. 

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction from the eyes of a chemist, Colloquium of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Bielefeld, 13.1.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Systems Chemistry: Self-Replication Versus Self-Elongation, Seminar at the Center of Astrobiology (CAB), Madrid, 8.4.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction using oligonucleotide building blocks, Colloquium of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Kassel, 19.4.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction of biomimetic systems, ESOR10, Plenary lecture, Rome, 25.-30.7.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction of biomimetic systems, GBM Annual Fall Meeting, Invited lecture, Berlin/Potsdam, 18.-21.9.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Systems Chemistry – A Perspective, Chembiogenesis 2005, COST D27 midterm evaluation conference, prepared contributed lecture with timeslot given to P. Strazewski, Venice, 30.9.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Some ideas during final discussion, ECLT Systems Chemistry workshop, contributed lecture, Venice, 3.-4.10.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Systems chemistry via examples, Colloquium of the institute of microbiology and molecular genetics, Göttingen, 1.11.2005

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Chemical replication and nanoconstruction using three-armed oligonucleotides, Colloquium of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Darmstadt, 9.1.2006

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Chemical replication, Invited lecture, Nobel workshop on the origins of life, Stockholm, 9.-11.6.2006

Knutson, C.: Reaction kinetics of  the Boncella scheme, PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop. Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005. 

Lindgren, K.: Flows of information as a driving force behind chemical pattern formation. Complex systems workshop organized by Cris Moore and Michel Morvain at Santa Fe Institute, July 2005.

Lindgren, K. and Eriksson, A.: Flows of information as a driving force behind chemical pattern formation. Life Matters Conversations in Bionanotechnology, poster presentation at Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden, October 2005.

Lindgren, K.: Flows of information as a driving force behind chemical pattern formation. European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris, France, November 2005.

Lindgren, K.: Flows of information in spatially extended systems. Mini Symposium on Dynamical Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 12 January 2006.

Maeke, T., Füchslin, R.M., Tangen, U., McCaskill, J. S.: Reactive DPD multiscale simulations (preserving the hydrodynamic limit) for artificial cells with microfluidic support, poster Evolution, Information and Computation: From Living to Non-Living Matter, PACE Workshop, European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy, May 2005

McCaskill, J.S.: From self-replicating spots to self-replicating micelles: on the evolution of self-assembly in reaction-diffusion systems. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

McCaskill, J.S.: Spatially resolved systems chemistry: Theory and experiment towards evolving artificial cells, Seminar given at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, September 2005

McCaskill, J.S.: Towards the evolution of artificial cells, Seminar at the Center of Astrobiology (CAB) Madrid, June 2005

McCaskill, J.S.: Microsystems Chemistry: Theory and Experiment towards Artificial Cells.’ Invited Lecture at the Tag der Chemie, Bochum University, July, 2005

McCaskill, J.S.: Physical Evolution of Amphiphile Self-assembly, PACE-PAs science coordination workshop, LANL, July 19-23, 2005.

McCaskill, J.S.: Microsystems Chemistry, Talk at Chalmers Technical University, Göteborg, August 2005

McCaskill, J.S.: Microsystem support for complex chemical system design, Satellite Workshop at ECCS 06, Paris, November 2006

McCaskill, J.S., Füchslin, R.F., Maeke, T. and Tangen, U.: From  Genetic Self-assembly to Organic Computing, Seminar on Organic Computing at Schloss Dagstuhl, January 2006.

McCaskill, J.S., Füchslin, R.F., Maeke, T.: On the evolution of dissipative and self-assembling structures, ECLT Workshop, March 2006.

McMullin, B.: Who Needs Genomes? Workshop on Evolution, Information, Computation (ECLT, May 2005).

McMullin, B.: Major Transitions in Artificial Chemistries? Workshop on Evolution and Self-Assembly (ECLT, March 2006).

Monnard, P.A.: Assembly of a simple self-replicating molecular aggregate, AbSciCon 2006, Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington DC, USA, March 26-30, 2006.

Munteanu, A.: Generic Darwinian selection in protocell assemblies. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.J.: Hierarchical dynamics. Complex systems workshop organized by Cris Moore and Michel Morvain at Santa Fe Institute, July 2005.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.J.: Hierarchical dynamics. European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris, France, November 2005.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.J.: Quasi-Species and Aggregate Dynamics. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

Nilsson Jacobi, M.J.: Hierarchical dynamics. PACE-PAs science coordination workshop, LANL, July 19-23, 2005.

Poli, I.: Evolutionary probabilistic design for protocell, PACE Workshop on Evolution and Self Assembly, ECLT, Venice March,16-18 2006.

Poli, I.:  Evolutionary Designs and Modelling, Fondazione di Venezia, April 6, 2006.

Poli, I.:  Evolutionary wavelet network, University of Rome Tor Vergata, April 19, 2006.

Packard, N.: Evolution of self-assembly and chemical reactions Synthetic Biology: Constructing and Deconstructing Life, Castilla, Spain, October 2005.

Packard, N.: Self-assembly with chemical reactions European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris, France, November 2005.

Packard, N.: Coevolution of structure and dynamics. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA, May 2005.

Packard, N.: Interaction, simulation, and chemistry, Simulation, Visualization, Interaction, Mixed Reality, Workshop, European Commision, Brussels,  June 2005.

Packard, N.: Embodied physics, computation, and chemistry, Workshop on: Evolution, Information and Computation: From living to nonliving matter ECLT, May 23-25, 2005.

Packard, N.: Sistemi Complessi e Tecnologia Vivente, Public Lecture at ISI, Torino May, 2005

Packard, N.: Coevolution of chemistry and self-assembly, at Synthetic Biology: Constructing and Deconstructing Life, workshop, Castillo de Magalia (Avila, Spain), October 2005.

Packard, N.:  Artificial cells as living technology, PopTech, public lecture, Camden, Maine, Oct 2005.

Rasmussen, S.: Minimal self-replicators, invited seminar at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, May 25, 2005.

Rasmussen, S.:  Assembling minimal self-replicating nano-machines, invited presentation at the TTI Vanguard Conference, Miami FL, USA, July 12-13, 2005.

Rasmussen, S.: Update on evolutionary issues from the Los Alamos project. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembly of minimal self-replicating nanomachines, USAF-WPARB, Dayton OH, USA, September 2005.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembling minimal self-replicating nanomachines, Public Lecture, sponsored by AAAS, Washington DC, USA, December 1, 2005.

Rasmussen, S.: How close are we from making life from scratch, Public Lecture, sponsored by University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA, April 2006, 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembling minimal self-replicating nanomachines, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA, April 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: The thermodynamics-kinetics connection for protocells, ECLT Workshop, March 13-17, 2006,Venice, Italy.

Rasmussen, S.: Protocells: Minimal self-replicating nanomachines, Key Note Presentation, 3rd Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 23-26, 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: The Science of Living Technology, University of Southern Denmark, April 27, 2006.

Rasmussen, S.: Summary of the PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005.

Rasmussen, S.: Assembling minimal self-replicating nano-machines, invited presentation at the Cell-Life Entities (CLT) Workshop, WPAFB, USAF, Dayton OH, USA, September 13-14, 2005.

 Schroer, J.: Higher-order self-assembly. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006

Roberto, R.: A model for the study of the dynamics of a population of protocells, PACE Workshop on Evolution and Self Assembly, ECLT Venice 16-18 March 2006. 

Roberto, R.: Population dynamics of los alamos bugs. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

Shreve, A. and Doshi, D.: Manipulations of fatty acid containers, PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005.

Tamulis, A., Tamuliene, J.  and Tamulis, V.: Quantum mechanical modelling of elements of artificial minimal living organisms, „Protocell Assembly workshop at LANL Centre for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) Monday 11 am (February 14,  2005), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. Electronically delivered abstract, 

Tamulis, A., Tamulis, V. and Tamuliene, J.: Self-Assembly of Protocell and Metabolism Modelled by Quantum Mechanical Molecular Dynamics (QMMD) and Classical Molecular Dynamical (MD) Methods, „Protocell Assembly and PACE joint workshop at LANL, July 18-23, 2005, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.

Tamulis, A., Tamulis, V: Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Self-Reproducible Living PNA Chip Immersed in the Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Controlled by Quantum Computing Logic Gates, Workshop in „Biological Physics, Physics of Life: From Single Molecules to Networks, Krogerup Hojskole, Humlebaek, Denmark, 21-27 August, 2005.

Tamulis, A., Tamulis,V.:Creation of Variety of Self-Replicating Complex Living Systems Based on Quantum Information, Brainstorming meeting of ONCE-CS European Complex Systems Society, University of Paris, France, September 19-23, 2005. 

Tangen, U.: Electronic complementation principle towards artificial cells, PACE-PAs science coordination workshop, LANL, July 19-23, 2005.

Tangen, U.: Aspects of information technology with feedback-controlled BioPRO-setup  at Workshop Protocells: Experiments, Ethics, and Technological Potential in Venice, ECLT, 2005

Tangen, U., Wagler, P.F., Chemnitz, S.,  Goranovic, G., Maeke, T., McCaskill, J.S.: An electronically controlled microfluidics approach towards artifical cells. ECCS 2005, Paris 2005.

Tangen, U.: From evolving software towards models of dynamically assembled macro-molecules. ECLT workshop: Evolution and Self-Assembly, March 2006.

Weronski., P., Y. Jiang, and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular dynamics (MD) study of a small PNA molecule in a lipid-water system, PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos, July 19-22, 2005.

Weronski., P., Yi Jiang and Rasmussen, S.: Molecular Dynamics Study of a Small PNA Molecule in a Lipid-Water System, Symposium 2005 Championing Scientific Careers, Los Alamos, August 2005.  (Pawel won the Award for Outstanding Oral Presentation in Biosciences).

Weronski., P., Jiang, Y. and S. Rasmussen, Molecular Dynamics Study of a Small PNA Molecule in a Lipid-Water System, CNLS seminar. August 18, 2005.

Woodruff, W.: Protocell and bio-energetics, Joint PACE and PAs Protocell Chemistry Workshop at ECLT, Venice, Italy, February 21-26, 2005.

Zhang, J., and Jiang, Y.: Dissipative Particle Dynamics Studies of Complex Structures of Lipids in Water, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 2005.

Ziock, H.: Life and information, PACE-PAs Science Coordination Workshop, Los Alamos NM, USA, July 19-22, 2005.

Ziock, H. and Rasmussen, S.: The Los Alamos Protocell, invited presentation at the Chemobiogenesis COST 2005 Conference, Venice, Italy, September 27-October 2, 2005.

Bedau, M., Computation at the edge of chaos  (2005) paper presented at the EVOLUTION,  INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION from  living to nonliving matter, ECLT, 23/05/2005.

Bedau, M., Social responsibility and protocell technology  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

Hanczyk, M., Container chemistry  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

Kiedrowski, G. v., Information chemistry  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

McCaskill, J., Replicator chemistry in channels and fan reactor  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

Müller, S., Allosteric regulation of ribozyme activity in response to surrounding conditions: A redox-sensitive riboswitch  (2005) paper presented at the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution, ECLT, 28/10/2005.

Nielsen, P. E., Peptide nucleic acid (pna). A psedopeptide with sequence information relevance for the discussion of origin of life?  (2005) paper presented at the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution, ECLT, 28/10/2005.

Packard, N., Morphological computation  (2005) paper presented at the EVOLUTION,  INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION from  living to nonliving matter, ECLT, 23/05/2005.

Sole, R. V., The computation landscape, from rna to feedforward networks  (2005) paper presented at the EVOLUTION,  INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION from  living to nonliving matter, ECLT, 23/05/2005.

Sole, R. V., Information and computation at the edge of life  (2005) paper presented at the EVOLUTION,  INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION from  living to nonliving matter, ECLT, 23/05/2005.

Tamulis, A., Variety of self-replicating complex living systems based on quantum information  (2005) paper presented at the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution, ECLT, 28/10/2005.

Tangen, U., Electronic control of protocell chemistry  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

Valverde, S., Noise and reliable computation, von neumann revisited  (2005) paper presented at the EVOLUTION,  INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION from  living to nonliving matter, ECLT, 23/05/2005.

Wagler, P., Container chemistry in 2d gradient reactor and flow systems  (2005) paper presented at the Protocells: experiments, ethics, and technological potential, Bonn, 21/02/2005.

2004-5

Bedau, M.A.: Living technology, Inaugural Distinguished Computer Science Seminar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, 11 April 2005

Bedau, M.A.: The problem of life, Invited symposium (with Carol Cleland and Michael Ruse) on Life. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 2005.

Füchslin, R.M.: Evolving Logical Circuits via Genetic Self-Assembly, Evolution and Statistics, international workshop in Erice, June 2004.

Hanczyc, M.: Experimental models of primitive cellular organization: the role of clays and the dynamics of membranes. Research Center for integrated Sciences. Life as a Complex System: Constructive and Dynamic Approach to Cell and Developmental Biology. March 5-6, 2005, University of Tokyo at Komaba.

Lichtensteiger, L.: Self-assembling submersible robots, NeuroIT Workshop, Munich, December 2004  

McCaskill, J.S.: Evolution of inductive principles via genetic self-assembly.  Evolution and statistics, international workshop in Erice, June 2004.

McCaskill, J.S.: The PACE project ‘Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution’. Invited lecture on the 3rd COST D27 workshop, Heraklion, Kreta, 30.09-03.10.2004. 

McCaskill, J.S.: Intelligent non-equilibrium microenvironments: an enabling technology for bringing chemistry to life. European Conference On Complex Systems, Torino, Villa Gualino, December 5-7, 2004.

McMullin, B. : 30 Years of Computational Autopoiesis: A Review, From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology. Paris, June 2004.

McMullin, B.:  What is Artificial Life? Artificial Life IX, Boston, September 2004.

Packard, N. and R. Shaw: Presentation of Morphological computation at the University of Zurich, Feb, 3, 2005 

Tangen, U., Füchslin, R.M., Maeke, T., Wagler, P.F., McCaskill, J. S.: Closing the loop: wet in silico bioprocessing. Poster presentation at 39th MPI Winter Seminar, Klosters, CH, 2004.

Tangen, U.: Electronic control of micro-reactors, ECLT, 2004 

Tangen, U.: Experiments in microflow-reactors of type BioModul, ECLT, 2004 

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Selbstreplication and the origin of life. – Seminar in the planetological colloquium, University of Münster, 26.05.2004.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-Replication in Synthetic Molecular Systems. – Plenary lecture on the 5th International Conference in Biological Physics (ICBP 2004), Göteborg, Sweden, 23.-27.8.2004. Due to temporary health issues lecture was given by Eors Szathmary. 27.08.2004 

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-Replication Versus Self-Elongation. Or: How to make long oligonucleotides without templates, enzymes, primers, surfaces, or stepwise feeding? – Invited lecture on the 3rd COST D27 workshop, Heraklion, Kreta, 30.09-03.10.2004. 

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction from the eyes of a chemist. – Plenary lecture on the International symposium on nano-organization and function, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 11.-12.11.2004.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Minimal Life. – Invited contribution to a round table discussion during the „1st Course: Towards the Minimal Cell of the „Erice International School on Complexity, Erice, Sicily, 7.-10.12.2004.

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication between origin-of-life research and nanoscience. – Colloquium in organic chemistry, University of Zürich. 14.12.2004 

v. Kiedrowski, G.: Self-replication and nanoconstruction from the eyes of a chemist. – Invited lecture on the symposium Bio Nano Engineering for Nanodevices, Institut Curie, Paris, 15.12.2004.

Agostinelli, C., Simulator approaches  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Bedau, M., Buchanan, A., Lipid structures and simple chemistry in dpd  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Eriksson, A., Molecular gaming  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Füchslin, R., Toward chemistry in dpd  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Goranovic, G., Microfluidic fluid dynamic phenomenology  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Lindgren, K., Information flow in spatial chemical systems  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Nilsson, M., Lipid assembly in md lattice gases  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Poli, I., Serra, R., Minerva, T., Evolutionary statistical methods  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Poli, I., Serra, R., Romanazzi, M., Statistics for experimental design: Questions for the chemistry  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Shaw, R., Asymmetric diffusion  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Speroni, P., Organizations in chemical reaction networks  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Tamulis, A., Tamuliene, J., Quantum mechanical md modelling of sensitizers of artificial living organisms  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Tangen, U., Maeke, T., Framework for interactions between simulator and experiment  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.

Walker, R., Cancedda, S., Stillo, G., Simulation presentations  (2004) paper presented at the Multiscale Molecular Simulations and Stochastic Feedback, ECLT, 22/11/2004.