Advanced Undergraduate Seminar: Bio-Inspired Systems and Computing
Semester B, 2000-2001
Lecturer: Dr. Moshe Sipper
Course Description
This elective course will be given as a seminar, wherein students give
talks on research topics described below.
Administrative Details
- Course reference: 202-1-5531 (Official title:
Chapters in Computer Science 4).
- Web: www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/courses/bioseminar01/.
- Prerequisite: The course is intended for third-year and graduate (MSc)
students.
- Credits: 2.
- Time: Monday 12-14. (NEW TIME!)
- Place: Bldg. 90, Room #125. (NEW ROOM)
- Grade:
- 70%: Talk (each lesson is given be a different student).
- 30%: Small software project.
- Notes:
- Attendance is obligatory.
- In case there are not enough students to fill up the semester,
each student will lecture twice, and the small project will be
annulled.
List of Talks
- Tuesday, March 6:
Introduction to Bio-Inspired Computing + Composition of Speaker List.
Speaker: Moshe Sipper.
- Tuesday, March 13:
Genetic Algorithms: Introduction.
Speaker: Elad Lahav.
- Tuesday, March 20:
Genetic Algorithms: Applications.
Speaker: Elad Lahav.
- Monday, March 26:
Genetic Programming: Introduction.
Speaker: Avi Barnea.
- Monday, April 2:
Genetic Programming: Applications.
Speaker: Avi Barnea.
- Monday, April 16:
Cellular Programming.
Speaker: Sharon Deutsch.
- Wednesday, April 25, 11-13 (Bldg. 34, room 116):
Artificial Self-Replication.
Speaker: Alex Rapoport.
- Monday, April 30:
Tierra.
Speaker: Alex Rapoport.
- Monday, May 7: Artificial Neural Networks and
Evolutionary Robotics.
Speaker: Tal Maor.
- Monday, May 14:
Ant Algorithms. Speaker: Sharon Deutsch.
- Monday, May 21:
Computer Immune Systems.
Speaker: Tal Maor.
- Monday, June 4:
L-systems.
Speaker: Kfir Rotbard.
- Monday, June 11:
DNA Computing.
Speaker: Kfir Rotbard.
- Tuesday, June 12, 10-12 (Bldg. 58, room 018):
Coevolution.
Speaker: Inbal Sharifi.