#  Proto-computation and Proto-life Workshop 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 10 - December 11, 2016** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10TH

10AM: Zach Adam, opening remarks  
Sophia Roosth, "Life is not a natural kind"  
Yi Ruiqin and M. Aono, "Production of water-alternative solvents and informational polymers by radioactive minerals on the Hadean Earth"  
Masashi Aono, "Amoeba-inspired computing: Chemical reaction as solution searching"

Break/Lunch

Deblina Sarkar, " Brainstorming technologies for solving the brain"  
Song-Ju Kim, " Natural Intelligence: Harnessing the computational power of physical phenomena"  
Makoto Naruse, "Decision making by photonics'"  
Yasuhiro Suzuki, "Harness nature for computing"  
Betül Kaçar, “The Ribosome: The oldest biological processor”

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11TH

10AM: Lining Yao, "Computing physical materials"  
Zach Adam, "Geologic conditions ripe for natural automata"

Lunch/Open discussion



 

 



 

 

 Share on:- [     Facebook ](#)
- [     Twitter ](#)
- [     Linkedin ](#)
 


 Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://origins.harvard.edu/node/961061/event-feed.ics)  Copy link link