This is an informal study group, meeting on Mondays, 3:30pm, in CSIRO ICT Centre (E6B 136), North Ryde, Macquarie Uni campus. Some meetings are shared with ISG (E6A 357), Macquarie University. The following is a schedule for the last series.  Date  Title  Presenter  Affiliation  18/02/08 Emergence of genetic coding: an information-theoretic model Mikhail Prokopenko CSIRO ICT Centre  25/02/08 Environmental structure and evolutionary adaptation - Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety revisited Oliver Obst CSIRO ICT Centre  05/03/08 (Wed) Detecting non-trivial computation in complex dynamics Joseph Lizier CSIRO ICT Centre and University of Sydney  10/03/08 Evolving coordinated group behaviors through maximization of mean mutual information Valerio Sperati Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy  17/03/08 Information-cloning of scale-free networks Mahendra Piraveenan CSIRO ICT Centre and University of Sydney  24/03/08    Easter Monday      31/03/08 Self-repairing modular robots Daniel Barrett UNSW and CSIRO ICT Centre  28/04/08 Simulating self-assembly of nano-sensors Gibson Hu / Ying Guo UTS and CSIRO ICT Centre  05/05/08 Stochastic gradient methods for online learning Nicol Schraudolph National ICT Australia  12/05/08  Growing artificial societies - a review Astrid Zeman CSIRO ICT Centre  26/05/08 Optimising sensor layouts Rosalind Wang CSIRO ICT Centre  16/06/08 Homeotaxis: coordination with persistent time-loops Mikhail Prokopenko CSIRO ICT Centre Past discussions ranged over a number of topics: A series on applications  A series on Artificial Life  (4 selected papers from ALife X: The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2006) A series on Measures of Complexity  (10 selected papers from 1983-2005) Entropy, Extropy, Cellular Automata, Chaos Self-Assembly, Amorphous Computing, Artificial Life Self-referentiality, Gödel's Theorem Ant Colony Optimisation Sensor Networks, Small Worlds, Scale-free Networks . . . You are welcome to join  . . .