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Important dates

- Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2011
- Notification to authors: March 4, 2011
- Final versions due: March 21, 2011
- Poster submission deadline: April 18, 2011
- UC 2011: June 6-10, 2011

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UC 2011 is organized by the FUNDIM laboratory of the mathematics department at the University of Turku, Finland, under the auspices of EATCS.

Original papers and posters are solicited in all all areas of unconventional computation. Papers/posters dealing with theory as well as with experiments and applications are welcome. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and membrane computing, as well as evolutionary paradigms; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; proposals for computations going beyond the Turing model.

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit papers (at most 12 pages) or posters electronically, via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uc2011
All submissions are expected to be in the pdf format. Paper submissions should be prepared following the LNCS format of Springer. Poster submissions should contain either a graphical poster or an abstract with sufficient details for the reviewers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not permitted. Each accepted paper/poster must be presented at the conference. The author of the poster is responsible for printing it. The proceedings (only for papers) will be published by Springer LNCS series and will be available at the conference.

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Programme Committee:
- Selim Akl (Kingston, CA)
- Olivier Bournez (Paris, FR)
- Thomas Bäck ( Leiden, NL)
- Adan Cabello (Sevilla, ES)
- Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK)
- José Félix Costa (Lisbon, PT)
- Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv, IL)
- Eric Goles (Santiago, CL)
- Shan He (Birmingham, UK)
- Mika Hirvensalo (Turku, FI)
- Natasha Jonoska (Tampa FL, US)
- Jarkko Kari (Turku, FI, co-chair)
- Giancarlo Mauri (Milano, IT)
- Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima, JP)
- Ion Petre (Turku, FI, co-chair)
- Kai Salomaa (Kingston, CA)
- Hava Siegelmann (Amherst MA, US)
- Susan Stepney (York, UK)
- Fumiaki Tanaka (Tokyo, JP)
- Jon Timmis (York, UK)

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Invited Speakers:
- Samson Abramsky (Oxford, UK),
- Bastien Chopard (Geneva, CH),
- David Corne (Edinburgh, UK),
- Juhani Karhumäki (Turku, FI),
- Gheorghe Pa(un (Bucharest, RO),
- Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, NL).

Tutorials:
- Quantum Information (Mika Hirvensalo, Turku, FI),
- Cellular Automata (Nicolas Ollinger, Marseille, FR),
- Membrane Computing (Mario de J. Pérez Jiménez, Sevilla, SP).

Satellite Workshops:
- Physics and Computation (org. Mike Stannet),
- Hypercomputation (org. Mike Stannet),
- Language Theory in Biocomputing (org. Tero Harju),
- Discrete Models of Complex Systems (org. Anna Lawniczak)

Conference location: The conference and the satellite workshops will take place in the Calonia and Arcanum buildings of the University of Turku.

Conference History: The first venue of the Unconventional Computation Conference (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand, in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium, in 2000; Kobe, Japan, in 2002; Seville, Spain, in 2005; York, UK, in 2006; Kingston, Canada, in 2007; Vienna, Austria, in 2008; Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in 2009; and Tokyo, Japan, in 2010.

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Organizing Committee:
- Pierre Guillon
- Tero Harju
- Mika Hirvensalo
- Timo Jolivet
- Juhani Karhumäki
- Jarkko Kari (chair)
- Arto Lepistö
- Ion Petre
- Petri Salmela
- Charalampos Zinoviadis

Proceedings Committee:
- Cristian S. Calude
- Jarkko Kari
- Arto Lepistö
- Ion Petre
- Grzegorz Rozenberg

UC Steering Committee:
- Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL),
- Cristian S. Calude (Auckland, NZ, co-chair),
- Lov K. Grover (Murray Hill NJ, US),
- Jarkko Kari (Turku, FI),
- Lila Kari (London, CA),
- Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht, NL),
- Seth Lloyd (Cambridge MA, US),
- Gheorghe Pa(un (Bucharest, RO),
- Tommaso Toffoli (Boston MA, US),
- Carme Torras (Barcelona, SP),
- Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, NL, co-chair),
- Arto Salomaa (Turku, FI).