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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS
*** Systems Self-Assembly: Multidisciplinary Snapshots ***
in Elsevier's Studies in Multidisciplinarity
N. Krasnogor, S. Gustafson, D. Pelta and J.L. Verdegay (Book Eds.)
L. McNamara, M. Meyer and W. Stubblefield (Series Eds.)
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THEME
Self-Assembly processes are ubiquitous in nature. Understanding how nature
produces self-assembled systems will represent an enormous leap forward in
our technological capabilities. Self-Assembly is an advantageous fabrication
process because, with an appropriate set of components and associated
interactions, these components will autonomously, robustly and efficiently
assemble into a desired system. Robustness and versatility are some of the
most important properties of self-assembling natural systems.
Although systems where self-assembly takes place, or which are created by
a self-assembling process, are remarkably varied, some common principles
for self-assembly are starting to be discerned. This book will be a showcase
of self-assembly in systems that arise from the computational, biological,
chemical, physical and engineering disciplines. The "Ariadna's Thread"
throughout the book unifying the various case studies will be the
"Computational Nature of Self-Assembling Systems". Our book targets readers
with the following background (but it is not limited to): Computer Science,
Molecular and Cell/Tissue Biology, Synthetic Chemistry, Material Sciences,
Engineering and Physics.
PAPER SUBMISSION
As soon as possible: Notification of Intent
1st May 2005: Paper Submissions Deadline - 12-25 pages
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
G. Rozenberg Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) ,
Leiden University, The Netherlands
G. Paun Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia
Artificial,Universidad de Sevilla,Spain
B.Grzybowski Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern
University, USA
M. Gheorghe School of Computer Sciences, University of Sheffield,
United Kingdom
J.L. Giavitto Laboratorie De Methodes Informatiques, Département
d'informatique, Université d'Évry, France
A. Bouchard Physical and chemical Sciences Center, Sandia National
Laboratories, USA
P. Moriarty School of Physics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
N. Krasnogor School of Computer Sciences, University of Nottingham,
United Kingdom
S. Gustafson School of Computer Sciences, University of Nottingham,
United Kingdom
J. Preece School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
A. Mikhailov Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute,
Germany
B. Tadic Theoretical Physics Department, Jozef Stefan Institute,
Slovenia
B. Parviz Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, USA
J. Reif Computer Science, Duke University, USA
R. Weiss Electrical Engineering, Princeton, USA
WEBSITE http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nxk/SYSEAS/
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