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Logistic Cellular Automata
15 April 2022 @ 16:00 - 17:00
Seymur Jahangirov
MSN Graduate Program and UNAM
Imagine a system that consists of interconnected cells each having an inner state. The inner state of each cell is changed based on the inner states of a specific subset of cells according to a certain rule. This is a general definition of cellular automata. Now replace those cells with neurons and you get a model of a brain, replace them with a space grid and you get a model of a fluid flow, replace them with living cells and you get a model of skin cell of an ocellated lizard. This versatility of cellular automata captured imaginations of great minds including John von Neumann, John Conway, Stephen Wolfram and many others.
In this seminar, we will present logistic extensions of cellular automata whereby a single parameter tunes the rate of change. We show several instances of deterministic phase transitions and self-organization in these systems. Finally, we introduce the operator representation which brings clarity to dynamics of elementary cellular automata and reveals further emergent behavior in its logistic extension.
About The Speaker
Dr. Seymur Jahangirov graduated from Nuclear Energy Engineering at Hacettepe University. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Material Science and Nanotechnology program at Bilkent UNAM while contributing to seminal works on theoretical prediction of two-dimensional materials. After a postdoc at the Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group in Spain, he joined Bilkent UNAM faculty as Assistant Professor. Dr. Jahangirov uses state-of-the-art computational tools based on the Density Functional Theory to discover novel low-dimensional materials with intriguing properties. Dr. Jahangirov is recipient of prestigious awards including Marie Curie IEF award from ERA and TÜBA-GEBİP award from Turkish Academy of Sciences.
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