MARCH at UCNC and TEMC 2023

The MARCH team were well represnted at the 20th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation at the University of North Florida (https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc2023/) with talks from:

David Griffin, titled Exploring the Robustness of Magnetic Ring Arrays Reservoir Computing with Linear Field Calibration

Chester Wringe, titled Modelling and Evaluating Restricted ESNs

In addition, team members, led by Susan Stepney, also organised the Fourth International Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Material Computing (TEMC 2023) as part of UCNC (https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/temc/TEMC2023-UCNC23/).

An invited talk was given by Julien Sylvestre, University of Sherbrooke, Canada, titled Unconventional Computing, For and With Mechanical Systems

and contributed talks from 

Jess Park, University of York, UK: Quantum Machine Learning: issues and opportunities

Thursday 16th March

Chester Wringe, University of York, UK: Benchmarking Reservoir Computers: a mini-tutorial

David Griffin, University of York, UK: Using Novelty Search to debug physical systems simulations

Susan Stepney, University of York, UK: Beyond Reservoir Computing: meta-materials and meta-dynamics