Talks

Here is a list of talks at conferences and workshops and seminars I have given. For many of them, the presentation slides are available.

Talks at conferences and workshops

  1. Unconventional complexity classes in unconventional computing, joint invited talk at the 25th Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC 2024) and at the 10th conference on Machines, Computations and Universality (MCU 2024), Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France. June 2024 [slides]
  2. Dynamical systems and their algebra, Workshop on Automata Networks (WAN 2021), Centre International de Rencontres Mathémathiques (CIRM), Marseille, France. July 2021 [slides]
  3. Composing behaviours in the semiring of dynamical systems, invited talk at International Workshop on Boolean Networks (IWBN 2020), Universidad de Concepción, Chile. January 2020 (talk given by Florian Bridoux due to my inability to attend the workshop) [slides]
  4. What do we know (and what we don’t) about the computational complexity of reaction systems (with Luca Manzoni), 2nd International Workshop on Reaction Systems, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Poland. June 2019 [slides]
  5. Shapes of dependencies in reaction systems, 2nd International Workshop on Reaction Systems, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Poland. June 2019 [slides]
  6. State sequences of reaction systems, invited lecture at the First School on Reaction Systems, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Poland. June 2019 [slides]
  7. State sequences of interactive processes of reaction systems (with Luca Manzoni), invited talk at the First International Workshop on Reaction Systems (WRS 2018), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. June 2018 [slides]
  8. Generalised dependency graphs solving a special case of the P conjecture, 16th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2018), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. January 2018 [slides]
  9. Solving a special case of the P conjecture using dependency graphs with dissolution, 18th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC18), University of Bradford, United Kingdom. July 2017 [slides]
  10. Closure under oracles of complexity classes for P systems, 15th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2017), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. January 2017 [slides]
  11. (with Luca Manzoni) A toolbox for simpler active membrane algorithms, 15th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2017), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. January 2017 [slides]
  12. Shallow non-confluent P systems, 17th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC17), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. July 2016 [slides]
  13. P systems with hybrid sets, Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC 2016) at 15th International Conference of Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2016), Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. July 2016 [slides]
  14. P systems with hybrid sets, 14th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2016), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. February 2016 [slides]
  15. Simulating elementary active membranes, with an application to the P conjecture, 15th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC15), Prague, Czech Republic. August 2014 [slides]
  16. Fixed points and attractors of reaction systems, Computability in Europe 2014 (CiE 2014), Budapest, Hungary. June 2014 [slides]
  17. Enzymatic numerical P system using elementary arithmetic operations, 14th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC14), Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. August 2013 [slides]
  18. Flattening and simulation of asynchronous divisionless P systems with active membranes, 14th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC14), Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. August 2013 [slides]
  19. Simulating EXPSPACE Turing machines using P systems with active membranes, 13th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2012), Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy. September 2012 [slides]
  20. Sublinear-space P systems with active membranes, 13th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC13), Budapest, Hungary. August 2012 [slides]
  21. P systems simulating oracle computations, 12th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC12), Fontainebleau, France. August 2011 [slides]
  22. P systems with elementary active membranes: Beyond NP and coNP, 11th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC11), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany. August 2010 [slides]
  23. On a powerful class of non-universal P systems with active membranes, 14th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT2010), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. August 2010 [slides]
  24. Do complexity classes for P systems have complete problems?, 8th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2010), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. February 2010 [slides]
  25. An efficient simulation of polynomial-space Turing machines by P systems with active membranes, 10th Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC10), Curtea de Argeș, Romania. August 2009 [slides]
  26. Space complexity for P systems, 7th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC 2009), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Februrary 2009 [slides]

Seminars

  1. The algebra of alternation and synchronisation of finite dynamical systems, 4ème demi-journée du Pôle Calcul “Complexité et Modèles de Calculs”, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Marseille, France. April 2023 [slides]
  2. Analysis of discrete dynamical systems: An algebraic perspective, (video conference) seminar of the Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems at Binghamton University, USA. October 2022 [video] [slides]
  3. Algebraic analysis of discrete dynamical systems, (video conference) seminar of the ACiD research group, Durham University, United Kingdom. December 2020 [slides]
  4. The semiring of dynamical systems, seminar of the CANA research group, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Marseille, France. October 2020 [video] [slides]
  5. Counting complexity and oracles in natural computing, seminar of the LIRICA research group, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Marseille, France. May 2019 [slides]
  6. Natural computing models of unusual complexity, 4ème demi-journée thèmatique « Calcul et complexité » du Pôle Calcul, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Marseille, France. September 2018 [slides]
  7. Communication topologies in natural computing, seminar of the CANA research group, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Marseille, France. April 2018 [slides]
  8. Bio-inspired computation, communication topologies, and computational complexity, seminar of the MDSC research group, Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis, France. March 2018 [slides]
  9. The computational complexity theory of membrane systems, seminar of the MDSC research group, Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis, France. November 2015 [whiteboard seminar]
  10. (with Luca Manzoni) Dynamics of reaction systems, seminar at Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. October 2015 [slides]
  11. Space complexity of membrane systems, seminar of the Research Group on Natural Computing, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. February 2011 [slides]