"Digital dynamics and non-equilibrium physics"
Raissa D'Souza
  Theory Group, Microsoft Research

Abstract

Cellular Automata (CA) are spatially organized discrete dynamical systems.  Large-scale CA simulations  have been used as a laboratory to study a variety of macroscopic physical phenomena.  This talk will discuss CA investigations into non-equilibrium thermodynamics, cluster growth, self-organization and phase transitions.  We will also discuss, within a CA context, the problem of mapping computational dynamics onto physical ones.