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Paul Smith (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30
Universality for critical cellular automata in d dimensions
- đ¤ Speaker: Paul Smith (University of Cambridge)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30 - 15:30
- đ Venue: MR12
Abstract
Cellular automata are interacting particle systems whose update rules are ‘local’ (the state of a particle depends only on its neighbours) and ‘homogeneous’ (the same rule applies to every particle). Despite much effort over the last fifty years, a general theory of cellular automata still seems very far out of reach. In this talk I shall discuss the latest in a new series of work on a particular (fairly large) class of cellular automata: those that are ‘monotone’ and ‘d-dimensional’. We now have a reasonably good understanding of the long-term behaviour of such models in two dimensions, starting from a random initial configuration. In higher dimensions we can (so far) say much less, but already there are hints of a rich ‘universality’ theory.
Series This talk is part of the Combinatorics Seminar series.
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