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Would you like to come see some toys? Toys here have a special sense: objects of daily life that you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists puzzling for a while. Table-top demonstrations of many such toys will be presented to visit some of the science that they open up.

This talk presents a class of coverage optimization problems that find application in optimal deployment of robotic networks and distributed spatial estimation. Robotic sensors can service events that occur in a spatial domain, improve the efficiency of data collection, adapt to changes in the environment,

The nascent field of synthetic biology offers the promise of engineered gene
networks with novel biological phenotypes. Numerous synthetic gene circuits
have been created in the past decade, including bistable switches,
oscillators, and logic gates. Despite a booming field and although recently
developed designs of regulatable gene networks are ingenious, there are
limitations in routinely engineering synthetic biological systems. Indeed,
there is a need for rationalizing the design of novel regulatable gene