9 a.m.-5 p.m.
NKS Minicourse by the Wolfram Science Group

This one-day intensive series of lectures covers key facets of the basic science and applications of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram.

3-9 p.m.
Attendee Sign-In

6-9 p.m.
Opening Reception

Don't miss a chance to mingle with conference participants, including Stephen Wolfram and his research group. Expect lively interactions with economists, physicists, philosophers, computer technologists, artists, educators, and many more--as well, of course, as with pure NKS researchers. Art inspired by NKS will be on display.

7 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

7 a.m.-noon
Attendee Sign-In

8:30 a.m.
Conference Introduction

8:45 a.m.
Stephen Wolfram's Keynote Address

10 a.m.
Break

10:15 a.m.
I. Pure NKS: The Study of Simple Programs

Tommaso Bolognesi, "Detecting and Measuring Randomness in Process-Algebraic Computations" [abstract] Ramón Alonso-Sanz, "Cellular Automata with Memory" [abstract] Thomas Worsch, "Observations in the Sandpile Model" [abstract] Jürgen Klüver, "Recent Results on Ordering Parameters in Cellular Automata and Boolean Networks" [abstract]

Eric Mjolsness, "Toward a Searchable Space of Dynamical System Models" [abstract] Jane Molofsky, "Cellular Automata Models in Community Ecology" [abstract] Thomas Olivier, "Experiences with Computer Simulations of Primate Populations" [abstract] Erik Schultes, "RNA and NKS" [abstract]

12:15 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m.
I. Pure NKS: The Study of Simple Programs

Johan Veerman, "Arithmetical Cellular Automata" [abstract] Else Nygren, "Resonances in 2D CA of Class IV" [abstract] Christina Stoica, "Hybrid CA Systems" [abstract] Rodrigo Obando, "Mapping the Cellular Automata Rule Spaces" [abstract]

Vallorie Peridier, "A CA Approach for Estimating Transient Surface Heating" [abstract] Brian Vick, "Multiphysics Modeling Using Cellular Automata" [abstract] Rafal Kicinger, "Generative Design in Civil Engineering Using Cellular Automata" [abstract] Thomas Speller, "Use of Shape Grammar to Derive Cellular Automata Rule Patterns" [abstract]

3:30 p.m.
Break

3:45-5:15 p.m.
I. Natural Programs: From Molecules to Computations

Brian Moulton, "NKS and Molecular Materials" [abstract] Trevor Bedford, "Using Cellular Automata to Uncover Evolutionary Landscapes" [abstract]

Daria Dorosh, John Kiehl, and Luke DuBois, "Follow the Pattern" [abstract]

5:15-8 p.m.
No Scheduled Events

8-9:30 p.m.
I. NKS Computer Science

Wiktor Macura, "Data Compression with Cellular Automata" [abstract] Kovas Boguta and Richard Phillips, "NKS Research Tools" [abstract]

George Danner, "Real-World Applications of NKS" [abstract] Rod L. Sipe, "A Systems Development Life-Cycle Methodology for Agent-Based Model Development" [abstract] Brig Klyce, "The Evolution Prize" [abstract]

7 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.
Q&A with Stephen Wolfram

9:30 a.m.
Live Computer Experiment by Stephen Wolfram

10:30 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m.
I. Pure NKS: The Study of Simple Programs

Paul-Jean Letourneau, "Elementary Cellular Automata with Memory" [abstract] Robert Barbour, "2D Four-Color Cellular Automaton" [abstract] Brian Silverman, "An Early Exploration of the Computational Universe" [abstract] Alec Resnick and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, "Dynamic State Networks" [abstract]

Yehuda Ben-Shimol, "New Kind of Students? NKS in Information Theory Course" [abstract] Francisca Aladejana, "The Implications of ICT and NKS for Science Teaching" [abstract] Michael Round, "The Computational Universe of Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata" [abstract] Todd Rowland, "The NKS Summer School" [abstract]

12:45 p.m.
Lunch

2 p.m.
I. Mathematics

Adrian German, "On the High Information Content of a Class of Objects with Low Algorithmic Complexity" [abstract] Yuriy Gulak, "Algebraic Properties of Elementary Cellular Automata" [abstract] Eric Rowland, "Classifying Nestedness in Cellular Automata" [abstract] Robert de Marrais, "Placeholder Substructures" [abstract]

Peter Davidson, "The Regular Complex" [abstract] Ferda Kolatan, "Responsive Architecture through Parametric Design" [abstract] Bill Hillier, "Cities as Networks" [abstract]

4-8 p.m.
No Scheduled Events

8-10 p.m.
Poster Session and NKS Computer Experiments Clinic

Dessert and coffee will be served. Presenters include: Troy Anderson Kovas Boguta Jason Cawley Donato D'Ambrosio Emre Demiralp Philip Dutton Robert N. Eli Bernard François Steven Gibson Robert Krawczyk Peter Loly Ed Meier Richard Phillips Michael Round Michael Schreiber Jonathan Vos Post Enrique Zeleny Hector Zenil

7 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

8 a.m.
I. Pure NKS: The Study of Simple Programs

Todd Rowland, "Two-Dimensional Totalistic Code 52" [abstract] Jesse Nochella, "Cellular Automata on Networks" [abstract] Kohji Tomita, "Two-State Graph-Rewriting Automata" [abstract] Michael Schreiber, "Binomial Exhaustion" [abstract]

Alan Bachers, "Training the Brain to Enter Class Four Space" [abstract] Anirudh Tiwathia and Cristián Opazo, "Eye-Tracking Study Using Cellular Automata Patterns as Visual Stimuli" [abstract] Toshihiro Iwata, "A Novel Method for Watching Economical Circulations" [abstract] Jason Cawley, "NKS Time Series" [abstract]

10 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m.
I. Engineering

Quan-Fang Wang, "A New DNA Encoding Technology with Application in Signal Processing of Mechanical Engineering Systems" [abstract] Richard Scott, "Distance Transforms" [abstract]

Katarina Miljkovic, "Generating Music with NKS" [abstract] Peter Overmann, "An Experiment in a New Kind of Music: The Making of WolframTones" [website]

11:30 a.m.
Lunch

12:45 p.m.
I. Pure NKS: The Study of Simple Programs

Enrique Zeleny, "The Turing Machines Universe" [abstract] Kovas Boguta, "Informational Fracture Points in Cellular Automata" [abstract]

Hugues Berry, "Complex Dynamics of Microprocessor Performances During Program Execution" [abstract] Matthew Szudzik, "An Elegant Pairing Function" [abstract]

1:45 p.m.
Closing Address with Stephen Wolfram and Others

2:30 p.m.
End of Conference