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Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops Related to Information Theory and Biology
- The European Conference on Artificial Life 2017 – September 4-8, 2017 (Lyon, France)
- International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA23) – September 24-28, 2017 (Austin, TX, USA)
- 2017 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (at IEEE SSCI 2017) – November 27 – December 1, 2017 (Hawaii, United States)
- 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) – December 4-10, 2017 (Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, USA)
- Winter Q-BIO 2018 – February 22-25, 2018 (Maui, Hawaii, USA)
- Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry – May 14-16, 2018 (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Past events To File below
- Complex Networks: From Theory to Interdisciplinary Applications – July 11-13, 2016 (Marseilles, France)
- The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2016 – July 25-29, 2016 (Vancouver, Canada)
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016 (GECCO’16) – July 20-24, 2016 (Denver, CO, USA)
- The 14th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’16) – August 23-26, 2016 (Aberystwyth, UK)
- The European Conference on Artificial Life 2017 (ECAL 17) – September 4-8, 2017 (Lyon, France)
- The 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence – September 7-9, 2016 (Brussels, Belgium)
- The 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN’16) – September 17-21, 2016) (Edinburgh, UK)
- The 2nd EvoEvo Workshop (EvoEvo’16) – September 20, 2016 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- The 20th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES’16) – November 16-18, 2016 (Canberra, Australia)
- Statistical Physics, Information Processing and Biology Workshop – Nov 16-18, 2016 (Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe New Mexico, USA)
- Quantifying Biological Complexity – February 1-3, 2017 (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA) #
- Regulatory and Epigenetic Stochasticity in Development and Disease (IPAM) – March 1 – 3, 2017 (University of Los Angeles at California, California, USA)
Active/annual Conferences and Workshops
- International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’14) – July 21-24, 2014 (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation
- Winter q-bio Meeting
- Published Proceedings
- International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA##)
- 21st International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA21) – August 17-21, 2015 (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)
- International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA20) – September 22-26, 2014
- Computational Neuroscience Meeting
- q-bio Summer School and Conference
- IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
- Workshop on Complex Networks
- International Society for Artifical Life (ISAL)
- ALife XV – July 4-8, 2016 (Cancun, Mexico)
Past One-time Conferences and Workshops
- BIRS: Stochastic and Deterministic Models for Evolutionary Biology (16w5113) — July 31 – August 5, 2016 (Banff, Canada)
- Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience (CNS’16) – July 6-7, 2016 (Jeju, South Korea)
- BIRS: Advances and Challenges in Protein-RNA: Recognition, Regulation and Prediction (15w5063) – June 7-12, 2015 (Banff, Canada)
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) – July 11-15, 2015 (Madrid, Spain)
- Computational Dynamic Analysis of Biological Processes – July 19-25, 2015 (Lipari Island, Italy)
- European Conference on Artificial Life – July 20-24, 2015 (York, UK)
- The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’15) – July 27-30, 2015 (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
- Conference on Complex Systems (CCS15) – September 28-October 2, 2015 (Tempe, AZ, USA)
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- #CCS_15
- Ninth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015) – September, 21-25, 2015 (Cambridge, MA, USA)
- The Information Universe – October 7-9, 2015 (Groningen, The Netherlands)
- NIMBioS: Information and Entropy in Biological Systems – April 8-10, 2015 (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
- BIRS: Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory – October 26-31, 2014 (Banff, Canada)
- NIMBioS Tutorial: “Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics” – August 4-9, 2014 (anticipated to Live Stream video as well)
- CECAM Workshop: Entropy in Biomolecular Systems – May 14-17, 2014
- Mathematical and Statistical Models for Genetic Coding (2013)
- Gene Regulation and Information Theory (2013)
- BioCom²: NSF Workshop on Biological Computations and Communications (2012)
- IEEE Special Session on Quantum Computing and Evolutionary Computation (2012)
- NSF Workshop on Biologically Enabled Wireless Networks Design and Modeling (2011) – Workshop report
- Information Theory and Statistical Learning (2008)
- Biocomp (2007)
- Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience (2007)
Tangentially Related Conferences and Workshops
- IEEE / ITSOC Conference on Information Sciences and systems
- Summer School on Diversities in Quantum Computation/Information (2010)