Annual Meeting of Project MolCoNet
 IST-2001-32008

November 29-30, 2002, Budapest

Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)

Address: H-1111 Budapest, Kende utca 13-17.

Organizers:

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú         E-mail: csuhaj@sztaki.hu,        Tel.: +36-1-279-6139
    György Vaszil   E-mail: vaszil@sztaki.hu,        Tel.: +36-1-279-6121

 

Programme:

    Friday, November 29

    09.00 - 09.10 Opening

    Reports on the first year activity

    9.10 - 9.20 Report of Group 1 (Milano)
    9.20 - 9.30 Report of Group 2 (Leiden)
    9.30 - 9.40 Report of Group 3 (Bonn)
    9.40 - 9.50 Report of Group 4 (Exeter)
    9.50 - 10.00 Report of Group 5 (Metz)
    10.00 - 10.10 Report of Group 6 (Bucharest)
    10.10 - 10.20 Report of Group 7 (Madrid)
    10.20 - 10.30 Report of Group 8 (Vienna)
      
    10.30-10.50 Break
      
    10.50 - 11.00 Report of Group 9 (Turku)
    11.00 - 11.10 Report of Group 10 (Budapest)
    11.10- 11.20 Report of Group 11 (Chisinau)
    11.20- 11.30 Report of Group 12 (Warsaw)
      
    11.30- 12.00 K. Glinos (Brussels): Information on the Future & Emerging Technologies programme (FET) of FP6
    12.00 -12.30 Discussions
      
    12.30 - 14.00 Lunch at the cafeteria of SZTAKI

    Scientific presentations

    14.00 -15.00 Invited talk of Professor T. Roska (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Analog-and-logic cellular wave computers
    15.00- 15.30 Visit of Professor Roska's laboratory, the Analogical and Neural Computing Systems Laboratory, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
      
    15.30-15.50Break
      
    15.50 - 16.15 C. Zandron, R. Zizza (Milano): New results concerning H systems and P systems
    16.15 - 16.40 H. J. Hoogeboom (Leiden): Carriers and counters. P systems with carriers vs. (blind) counter automata
    16.40 - 17.05 J. McCaskill (Bonn): Some techniques for scalable integrated DNA computing
    17.05 - 17.30 P. Sant (London): Constructing a universal P system
    17.30 - 18.00 Discussions on the scientific presentations
      
    20.00 Dinner at the Aranyszarvas Vendéglő

    Saturday, November 30

    Scientific presentations continued

    9.00 - 9.25 S. Verlan (Metz): Results on some splicing-based systems,
    M. Margenstern (Metz): A tentative additional frame for DNA computing and P systems
    9.25 - 9.50 R. Freund, C. Martin-Vide, Gh. Paun, A. Obtulowicz (on behalf of the Bucharest group): On three classes of automata-like P systems
    9.50 - 10.15 F. Arroyo Montoro, J. Castellanos (Madrid): First approach of the specification of a transition P systems machine language for a membrane processor
    10.15- 10.40 R. Freund, M. Oswald (Vienna): P automata on finite and infinite words
      
    10.40- 11.00 Break
      
    11.00- 11.25 A. Ehrenfeucht, I. Petre, D. M. Prescott, G. Rozenberg (on behalf of the Turku group): Circularity and other invariants of gene assembly in ciliates
    11.25-11.50 E. Csuhaj-Varjú, Gy. Vaszil (Budapest): New results on P automata, accepting P systems with only communication
    11.50-12.15 A. Profir (Chisinau): Mathematical models of molecular genetic triggers
    12.15-12.40 P. Wasiewicz et al. (Warsaw): The molecular neuron and neural network realization
    12.40-13.00 Discussions on the scientific presentations
      
    13.00 - 14.30 Lunch at the Kis Borostyán étterem
      
    14.30-16.30 Discussions on the 2nd year MolCoNet activity
      
    16.30-16.45 Break
      
    16.45 -18.00 EMCC (European Molecular Computing Consortium) general meeting
      
    18.00- 18.10 Closing

Accomodation and travel information:

    After arriving at Ferihegy airport, Budapest, you can use the minibus service to reach the center of the city. The Airport minibus service will take you anywhere in Budapest. Information desk (operator) for the minibus service is found in the centre of the arrival lobby. You can order this service inside the baggage claim area from 5 am in the morning until 1 am in the night. The price is HUF 2100 in one direction, return tickets are also available for HUF 3600.

    Airport taxis are in front of the arrival lobby. Fare depends on the destination, and often changes, but usually considerably more expensive then the minibus service. Most companies have a so called "airport transfer" service, with fixed prices to the left or to the right side of the Duna river (Buda - this should be more expensive and this is what you need to the hotels, or Pest). If you decide to take a taxi you should choose one which offers this service. For example, the company "6x6 Taxi" charges a fixed rate of HUF 3800 for Buda. For this company you should call the number 266-6666, or 466-6666 from Budapest (the airport is in Budapest) or +36-1-266-6666, +36-1-466-6666 from abroad.

    Participants are accommodated in two hotels, both of which are very close to the Institute, to the place of the meeting.

    The Guest House of the Technical University is in walking distance (5 minutes), Hotel Orion is two tram stops - approx. 10-15 minutes.

    To reach the institute from Hotel Orion, you can take tram 19 in direction "ETELE TÉR, KELENFÖLDI PÁLYAUDVAR VÁ." or tram 18 in direction "ALBERTFALVA, KITÉRÖ VÁ." The station close to Hotel Orion is "Döbrentei tér", get off at the second stop called "Bertalan Lajos utca". Tickets for the tram should be purchased in advance (HUF 106).

    Click here for a "hand edited" map of the center of Budapest marked at the locations of our institute, the two hotels and the restaurant.

    The addresses:

      Best Western Hotel Orion
      Döbrentei u. 13.
      H-1013 Budapest
      Tel: +36-1-356 8583
      Fax: +36-1-3755418

      Professor's Guest House of the Technical University of Budapest
      Sztoczek u. 5-7.
      H-1111 Budapest
      Tel: +36-1-463-4103
      Fax:+36-1-463-3936

    For more information on the hotels, click on the links. For the page of the Professor's Guest House your browser needs support for "flash" and "quicktime".

    If you choose the menu item "map" on the page of the guest house (this seems to work without the extras mentioned above) you get a pop-up window with a detailed map of the streets surrounding the guest house (which is marked with a red dot). A copy of this map is available here. Left from the red dot you can see the "Kende utca" street, the street of our institute. Further to the left and a little bit up, you can see the corner of "Bertalan Lajos utca" street and "Bartok Bela ut" street where you arrive with the tram coming from Hotel Orion.

Participation fee:
    HUF 8000 (approx. EUR 34) to be payed on the first day of the meeting, covering the expenses of the two lunches and the dinner. Refreshments and coffee in the breaks are free.
Interesting links:
    A Guide to Budapest on the web-pages of our institute containing information on arriving at the airport, using the airport shuttle service, taxis, telephones, etc.

    A live web-cam image of Budapest from the top of the Gellért hegy.

    An other page about Budapest with information and facts about the city and Hungary.

    About the weather in Hungary.

Participants:
    Martyn Amos

    Fernando Arroyo Montoro

    Maurice H. ter Beek

    Elena Boian

    Juan Castellanos

    Svetlana Cojocaru

    Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju

    Andrzej Dydynski

    Rudolf Freund

    Konstantinos Glinos

    Tero Harju

    Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

    Maurice Margenstern

    Giancarlo Mauri

    John Mc Caskill

    Marloes van der Nat

    Robert Nowak

    Marion Oswald

    Gheorghe Paun

    Ion Petre

    Aurelia Profir

    Yurii Rogozhin

    Tamas Roska

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

    Fernando Sancho-Caparrini

    Paul Sant

    Rainer Schuler

    Grzegorz Tomczuk

    Gyorgy Vaszil

    Serghei Verlan

    Piotr Wasiewicz

    Claudio Zandron

    Rosalba Zizza

Last modified on November 26, 2002 With questions or comments about this page, write to György Vaszil.