31 August - 2 September 2022, 9th Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality (MCU 2022), Debrecen, Hungary

The International conference MCU series traces its roots back to the mid 90's, and has always been concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of computation and universality through the study of models of general purpose computation.  The 9th edition of MCU will take place at the University of Debrecen in Hungary, it is co-located with DCFS 2022 and NCMA 2022. As long as travel conditions and the situation concerning the current humanitarian crisis in the neighboring Ukraine allow, the conference is planned to be on-site. If necessary, the possibility of both, in-person and online participation will be provided.

The scope of the conference topics includes, but is not limited to, computation in the setting of various discrete models (Turing machines, register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems, rewriting systems, molecular computing models, neural models...) and analog and hybrid models (BSS machines, infinite time cellular automata, real machines, quantum computing...) and the meaning and implantation of universality in these contexts. Particular emphasis is given towards search for frontiers between decidability and undecidability in the various models, search for the simplest universal models, computational complexity of predicting the evolution of computations in the various models. Parallel computing models and their connections to decidability, complexity and universality.