Program for AUTOMATA 2014

Sunday, 6 July

16:00-19:00 Registration

Monday, 7 July





9:10-17:00 Registration
9:50-10:00 Opening
10:00-10:45 Invited Talk (Chair: T. Isokawa)
10:00-10:45 Prof.Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland),
On a cellular automaton and powers of 3/2
10:45 Theory of Cellular Automata I (Chair: T. Isokawa)
10:45 Kenichi Morita,
Language recognition by reversible partitioned cellular automata
11:10 Ville Salo and Ilkka Törmä,
Plane-Walking Automata
11:35-15:00 Lunch break & excursion at Kokoen garden
15:00-16:15 Application (Chair: J-B. Yunès)
15:00 Pedro P.B. de Oliveira and Mauricio Verardo,
Template Based Representation of Cellular Automata Rules
15:25 Miroslaw Szaban and Franciszek Seredynski,
How to select in an appropriate way rules for cellular automata - based PRNG
15:50 Yasusi Kanada,
Self-organized 3D-printing Patterns Simulated by Cellular Automata
16:15-16:45 Tea break
16:45-17:35 Stochastic Cellular Automata (Chair: P.P.B. de Oliveira)
16:45 Witold Bołt, Jan M. Batens and Bernard De Beats,
Analysis of stochastic CAs with the use of deterministic rules
17:10 Matthew Macauley and Grady Thomas,
Analysis and dynamics of bi-threshold functions
18:30-21:00 Dinner at Seiko Club

Tuesday, 8 July





9:10-16:00 Registration
9:15-10:00 Invited Talk (Chair: F. Peper)
9:15 Prof.Satoshi Murata (Tohoku University, Japan),
Introduction to Molecular Robotics: Computation to control chemical systems
10:00-10:30 Tea break
10:30-11:45 Universality & Complexity (Chair: M.Kutrib)
10:30 Jarkko Kari,
A universal cellular automaton without sensitive subsystems
10:55 Katsunobu Imai, Hisamichi Ishizaka, and Victor Poupet,
5-State Rotation-Symmetric Number-Conserving Cellular Automata are not Strongly Universal
11:20 Enrico Formenti, Kévin Perrot and Eric Rémila,
Computational complexity of the avalanche problem on one dimensional Kadanoff sandpiles
11:45-13:30 Lunch break at Egret Castle Mille
13:30-14:45 Theory of Cellular Automata II (Chair: TBD)
13:30 Martin Kutrib, Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt,
Real-Time Reversible One-Way Cellular Automata
13:55 Jean-Baptiste Yunès and Luidnel Maignan,
Generalized FSSP on Hexagonal Tiling: Towards Arbitrary Regular Spaces
14:20 Ville Salo and Ilkka Törmä,
Complexity of Conjugacy, Factoring and Embedding for Countable Sofic Shifts of Rank 2
14:450-15:15 Tea break
15:15-16:30 Elementary Cellular Automata I (Chair: G. Martinez)
15:15 Takao Namiki and Akane Kawaharada,
Cumulative distribution of rule 90 and Lebesgue's singlar function
15:40 Junta Matsukidaira and Daisuke Takahashi,
Max-min-plus expressions for one-dimensional cellular automata with second order conserved quantities
16:05 Raju Hazari and Sukanta Das,
On Number Conservation Property of ECA under α-Asynchronous Update
16:30-18:00 Committee meeting
18:30-21:00 Banquet at Restaurant Mikashio

Wednesday, 9 July



9:10-11:00 Registration
9:15-10:00 Invited Talk (Chair: K. Morita)
9:15 Prof.Martin Kutrib (Universität Gießen, Germany),
Complexity of One-Way Cellular Automata
10:00-10:25 Elementary Cellular Automata II (Chair: K. Morita)
10:00 Genaro Martinez, Andrew Adamatzky and Harold McIntosh,
Mobile self-localizations as a set of regular expression for Rule 54
10:25-10:55 Tea break
10:55-12:10 Dynamic Systems (Chair: T. Namiki)
10:55 Matthew Macauley and Henning Mortveit,
Cycle Equivalence of Finite Dynamical Systems Containing Symmetries
11:20 Pablo Moisset de Espanés and Iván Rapaport,
Strict majority bootstrap percolation on augmented tori and random regular graphs: experimental results
11:45 Jan Baetens and Janko Gravner,
Introducing Lyapunov profiles of cellular automata
12:10-12:15 Closing
13:00-14:30 Lunch at Serena (Hotel Nikko Himeji)