FRIDAY: Theory Lunch -- noon, February 11th, Harvard Medical School

[Alexander (Sasha) Wait]

ALifers,

I will give a talk at the Systems Biology Theory Lunch. HMS, Alpert
Building, Room 436 at 12 noon, 11th February, 2005.

* http://vcp.med.harvard.edu/tl-schedule.html

TITLE: Spacetime crystallography of a quantum mechanical biosphere

Abstract:

A crystallographer of real biological molecules must make difficult
trade-offs between the resolution of a crystal (both in space and time)
and the difficulty of crystallization. For the spacetime
crystallographer designing an automaton that produces biologically
plausible crystals, that can be computed in a reasonable time with
available hardware, is analogous to the difficulty encountered by a real
crystallographer. For this week's theory-lunch I will take you on a
guided tour of my efforts to crystallize a quantum mechanical biosphere;
the work combines digital evolution with current research in quantum
information processing. In studying life as it might be I hope to
convince you that we can also learn about life as it is.

(More details above.)

Hope you can make it!

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Alexander (Sasha) Wait WWW - http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~await
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[Fred Hapgood]

Awesome. I'd love to get there but can't. Hopefully you can redeliver
the talk another time.

Fred


www.pobox.com/~fhapgood

[ASW]

Thanks Fred! I have started an annoucement list at:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alife-boston-announce

For other people reading this, in the future, I'd like to see =much=
more informal discussion on this list, so, please subscribe to the
annoucement list if you don't want to get lots of "chat" email.

Sasha