Preliminary Program
| Monday June 22, 2026 | |
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| 9:15-9:30 | Opening |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Talk - Carina Curto, “Network dominoes: composable building blocks for recurrent networks” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Regular papers session 1 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Tutorial - Eric Goles Chacc, “Fungal Automata: dynamics and complexity” |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Cellular Automata and Boolean Automata Networks Workshop |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Cellular Automata and Boolean Automata Networks Workshop |
| Tuesday June 23, 2026 | |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Reaction Systems Workshop |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-13:00 | Reaction Systems Workshop |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Reaction Systems Workshop |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Reaction Systems Workshop |
| Wednesday June 24, 2026 | |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Talk - Hiroki Sayama, “Swarm systems as a platform for open-ended evolutionary dynamics” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Regular papers session 2 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Keynote Talk - Penousal Machado |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-22:00 | Social event and social dinner |
| Thursday June 25, 2026 | |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Talk - the winner of the G. Rozenberg Natural Computing Award |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Regular papers session 3 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Tutorial - Constantine Evans, “DNA tile assembly for all seasons” |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (including poster session) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote talk - Cristian Micheletti, “Quantum computing for polymer physics” |
| 15:00-15:30 | Late breaking abstracts and posters session |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break (including poster session) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Regular papers session 4 |
| Friday June 26, 2026 | |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Quantum Computing Workshop |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-13:00 | Quantum Computing Workshop |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 | Short papers session |
| 14:30-15:30 | Tutorial - Eric Medvet, “Evolutionary Modular Robotics” |
| 15:30-15:45 | Closing |
Detailed Program
Regular papers session 1 - Monday June 22, 2026 - 11:00-12:00
- Alonso Espinoza, Eric Goles and Marco Montalva-Medel
“Reduction and Dynamical Analysis of a Boolean Network for Drug Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer” - Alain Finkel, Gaspard Fougea and Stéphane Le Roux
“Modeling the global neuronal workspace with communicating timed automata” - Erik D. Demaine, Timothy Gomez, Markus Hecher, Ryan Knobel, Marco Rodriguez, Robert Schweller and Tim Wylie
“Understanding Counting Complexity Through Tile Assembly Systems” - Henning Fernau, Lakshmanan Kuppusamy and Jana Schulz “Forbidden-Context & Ordered Grammar Systems”
Regular papers session 2 - Wednesday June 24, 2026 - 11:00-12:00
- Victoria Capovilla, Andrea Gasparin, Andrea Bertolini and Lorenzo Castelli
“A Genetic Algorithm for the Network Pricing Problem Using Game-Theoretic Replicator Dynamics” - Henning Hillebrandt, Andreas Padalkin, Christian Scheideler, Daniel Warner and Julian Werthmann
“Logarithmic-Time Geodesically Convex Decomposition in Programmable Matter” - Nazifa Khan, William Bushell, Mik Cieslak and Ian McQuillan
“Learning L-system Models of Plants Matching Real Images Using Genetic Algorithm” - Sandro Erba, Giuditta Franco and Claudio Zandron
“Towards a lightweight Spiking Neural P system for image recognition”
Regular papers session 3 - Thursday June 25, 2026 - 11:00-12:00
- Tomoki Ono and Suthee Ruangwises
“A Complexity Hierarchy of Shuffles in Card-Based Protocols” - Gabriel Acuña, Eric Goles, Hans J. Herrmann and Gonzalo A. Ruz
“Dynamics of the three-population Potts-Sakoda Model” - Futa Ito, Shiho Terunuma, Yang Li, Kazuo Sakiyama and Daiki Miyahara
“Physical Zero-Knowledge Proofs for the Another Solution Problem with a Case Study on Sudoku” - Erik D. Demaine, Timothy Gomez and Celine Zhang
“Designing Card-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Cellular Automata Problems”
Late breaking abstracts and posters session - Thursday June 25, 15:00-15:30
TBA
Regular papers session 4 - Thursday June 25, 2026 - 16:00-17:00
- Sampreet Kalita, Benjamin W. Butler, Susan Stepney and Viv Kendon
“Novel models of computation from novel physical substrates: a bosonic example” - Sofie De Weer, Jiacong Sun, Toon Bettens, Wim Dehaene, Giuseppe Sarda and Marian Verhelst
“Beyond Max Cut: A Systematic Cross-Problem Evaluation of Ising Solvers on Constrained Combinatorial Optimization” - Kamil Khadiev and Ilnur Valeev
“Circuits of Quantum Hashing and Quantum Fourier Transform for a Cactus as a Qubit Connectivity Graph” - Kamil Khadiev, Aliya Khadieva, Vladislav Remidovskiy and Timur Bikmullin
“Quantum Algorithm for Searching for the Longest Segment and the Largest Empty Rectangle”
Short papers session - Friday June 26, 2026 - 14:00-14:30
- Natasha Jonoska, Van A.B. Pham, Masahico Saito and Bhavneet Saini
“Levels of Chirality in DNA Nanostructure” - Sanyam Agarwal, Anurag Pandey and Alexander Rogovskyy
“Immune Cell Pathogen Detection as Memory-Dependent Graph Search Algorithm”