jhaataja@finsun.csc.fi (Juha Haataja) (03/25/91)
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Workshop on Cellular Automata
April 17-18, 1991
Centre for Scientific Computing
Helsinki, Finland
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
A workshop on cellular automata will be arranged at the Centre for
Scientific Computing (CSC) in Helsinki, Finland, on April 17-18, 1991.
The four invited speakers are:
Per Bak, Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
"Self-Organized Criticality"
Bruce M. Boghosian, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
"A Survey of Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Hydrodynamics"
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
"Excitable Cellular Automata"
Clifford Pickover, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
"Visualization of Complex Phenomena"
These presentations will be organized as two 45 minute sessions each.
In addition, a collection of short contributions have been accepted
to the workshop program.
2. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 17, 1991
8.30-9.00 Registration and coffee
9.00-9.15 Opening Prof. Risto Nieminen
9.15-9.45 Basic Properties of Cellular Automata Dr. Jarkko Kari
9.45-10.45 Excitable Cellular Automata--session 1 Dr. David Griffeath
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.15 Self-organized Critical Cellular Automata
--session 1 Dr. Per Bak
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Excitable Cellular Automata--session 2 Dr. David Griffeath
14.30-15.30 Self-organized Critical Cellular Automata
--session 2 Dr. Per Bak
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Short contributions 1
17.00-19.00 Video session
19.00- Social program
Thursday, April 18, 1991
8.30-9.30 Visualization of Complex Phenomena
--session 1 Dr. Clifford A. Pickover
9.30-10.00 Coffee break
10.00-11.00 A Survey of Lattice Gas and Lattice
Boltzmann Methods for Hydrodynamics
--session 1 Dr. Bruce M. Boghosian
11.00-12.15 Short contributions 2
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Visualization of Complex Phenomena
--session 2 Dr. Clifford A. Pickover
14.30-15.30 A Survey of Lattice Gas and Lattice
Boltzmann Methods for Hydrodynamics
--session 2 Dr. Bruce M. Boghosian
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Short contributions 3
17.00-17.15 Closing of the workshop
3. REGISTRATION
The registrations should be sent to the following address:
Paula Maki-Valkkila
VTKK/TLP
P.O. Box 40
SF-02101 Espoo
Finland
E-mail: maki@csc.fi. Phone: +358 0 457 2718. Telefax: +358 0 457 2302.
The organizers can make hotel reservations for participants, when needed.
The walking distance to hotel Dipoli is 10 minutes. The cost of a single
room is approx. 450 FIM for one night (ca. 120 USD).
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the CSC Report Series.
The deadline for the final papers expires at the workshop (April 18,
1991). Copies of the proceedings can be ordered using the above address.
4. ARRANGEMENTS
There is no registration fee for academic participants; for others, the fee
is $100.
For additional information, contact Juha Haataja (jhaataja@finsun.csc.fi
or JHAATAJA at FINFUN) at the Centre for Scientific Computing.