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Intensive School on Cellular Automata

Co-located with the 13th International Conference on
Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2018)

September 17, 2017
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy

http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it/school/ ********************************************************************************

ABOUT
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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 be a 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.

INSTRUCTORS
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- Bastien Chopard
- Jean-Luc Falcone

PROGRAM
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The program of the school 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,
asymchronous CA. Implementation: lookup table, on the fly computation. Number
of possible universe
- Historical notes: from von-Neuman 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, lezard, 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

VENUE
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The Intensive School on CA will be held at Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy, on the 17th of September 2018. The school is set one day before the beginning of the 13th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry
(ACRI 2018).

REGISTRATION
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The registration fees for the school can be found at:

http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it/registration/

Details on the registration procedure will soon be posted on the same webpage

UNIMIB PHD SCHOOL COURSE
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For PhD students of the University of Milano-Bicocca, participation to the school is valid for 1 course credit (CFU)

CONTACTS
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Further information on the school will be published on the ACRI 2018 website:

http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it

For other inquiries, please send an e-mail to acri2018@disco.unimib.it

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