The 5th edition of the Workshop on Molecular Communications will be held online on 11.November, 4pm-7pm due the pandemic.

New applications in medicine, such as "Smart Drug Delivery" and "Internet of Bio-NanoThings", require the communication between so-called nanomachines (e.g., nanorobots). Since nanomachines are typically micro/nano-sized and operate in liquid environments, conventional wireless communications using electromagnetic waves is not feasible or detrimental. However, a promising approach to enable information transmission in such a setup is to use molecules instead.

The Workshop on Molecular Communications is organized by Werner Haselmayr (Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems) together with international colleagues. The workshop will deliver four keynotes on cutting-edge topics and one panel discussion on the future of the field.

Keynotes

• Keynote 1: "Coronavirus Transmission via Aerosol Propagation from a Molecular Communication Perspective"
  Prof. Peter Hoeher, University of Kiel, Germany
• Keynote 2: "Molecular Communication Technology for Human Medicine"
  Prof. Ilangko Balasingham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo
• Keynote 3: "Plants as information processing machines"
  Prof. Richard Morris, John Innes Centre, UK
• Keynote 4: "Anomaly detection and localization based on Molecular Communications"
  Prof. Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari, Sharif University of Technology, Iran