First Intensive School on Cellular Automata

Como - Villa Del Grumello 
Relatore/i: Prof. Bastien Chopard, Dr. Jean-Luc Falcone (University of Geneva)
 

Titolo: First Intensive School on Cellular Automata

Venue: 13th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2018)

Data: 17 Settembre 2018

Luogo: Villa del Grumello, Como

Relatori: Prof. Bastien Chopard, Dr. Jean-Luc Falcone (University of Geneva)

Descrizione Programma in Inglese:

Cellular automata (CA) can be viewed as a mathematical abstraction of the physical world in which all quantities are of discrete nature. Due to its simplicity, CA turn out to a be very interesting approach to model complex systems in which a macroscopic collective behavior emerges out of the interaction of many simple elements. This school will indroduce this approach in a pedagogical way through many examples illustrating the essence of CA modeling. The program is the following:

Introduction: What are CA’s?: computational model, discrete dynamical system, abstraction of physical and natural systems
Definition: Parity rule. Neighborhood, stochastic CA, non-uniform CA, asynchronous CA. Implementation: lookup table, on the fly computation. Number of possible universe
Historical notes: from von-Neumann to Langton self-reproduction CA
Modeling of physical system: create a fititious world where conservation laws and symmetries are preserved. 
Examples: snowflakes, excitable media,… 
traffic models, homostatis,…
Understanding complex systems through CAs: life, Langton ants, Wolfram complexity classes…
Lattice gases: CA fluids, diffusion models, exact computation and reversibility
Extension: lattice Boltzmann, multi-agent: in-silico modeling at a mesoscopic level.
Exercises: will be inserted during the presentation
Detailed program and further information available at: http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it/school 

Registrazione: vedere http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it/registration/ per le tariffe (riferirsi a tariffa "School") e il link al form di registrazione.

Note aggiuntive:

La scuola verrà tenuta in lingua inglese. Per gli studenti di dottorato dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca la scuola è valida per il riconoscimento di un credito formativo. La tariffa di registrazione alla scuola permette ai partecipanti di seguire anche i Workshop di ACRI 2018, che si terranno il giorno successivo (18 settembre)