The DNA and Natural Algorithms Group:

• Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly (Erik Winfree, Aspen Workshop on Computing with Physical Systems, January 2024)
• Imagination: From neural computation to molecular computation (Erik Winfree, UCLA Luskin Symposium-Pushing the Boundaries: Neuroscience, Cognition and Life, June 27, 2023)
• Information and Algorithms in Molecular Self-Assembly (Erik Winfree, University of Chicago, Physics Department, May 11, 2023)
• Biomolecular Neural Networks (Erik Winfree, Caltech AI4Science workshop, February 9, 2023)
• Pattern Recognition in the Nucleation Kinetics of Molecular Self-Assembly (Erik Winfree, Caltech's Carver Mead New Adventures Workshop, April 29, 2021)
• Chemical Reaction Networks and Stochastic Local Search (Erik Winfree, University of Washington Computer Science, April 15, 2021)
• Thinking about molecular self-assembly that thinks (Erik Winfree, Imperial College London, Workshop on nucleic acids, synthetic biology and artificial life, March 31, 2021)
• 21 molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly (Damien Woods, Imperial College London, Workshop on nucleic acids, synthetic biology and artificial life, March 30, 2021)
• Neural Network Behaviors in Natural and Synthetic Biochemical Systems (Erik Winfree, Stanford Neuroscience, April 22, 2019)
• Programming a Chemical Oscillator (David Soloveichik, 2017, 5-minute overview)
• DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices (Paul Rothemund, Caltech Watson Lecture, May 25, 2016)
• Theory of Algorithmic Self-Assembly (David Doty, 2013, 7-minute overview)
• Building a tiny "DNA brain" Part I (design) and Part II (experiments) (Lulu Qian, 2011, 18-minute overview)
• DNA digital circuits: The Seesaw Magic Book [In Chinese] (Lulu Qian, 2011, 13-minute overview)
• The astonishing promise of DNA folding (Paul Rothemund, TED 2007, 16 minutes)
• Casting spells with DNA (Paul Rothemund, TED 2006, 7 minutes)
• Algorithmic Self-Assembly for Nano-Scale Fabrication (Erik Winfree, Kavli Frontiers of Science, 2006, 30 minutes)

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