Invited talks, lectures, presentations and demos
featuring DDLab and related work

• 18 Feb 2014, Invited talk/seminar, "Using DDLab to study Cellular Automata and other discrete dynamical networks", Statistical Learning Group, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia (Mikhail Prokopenko).

• 23-27 Jan 2012, Invited Talk, Heron Island Complex Systems Workshop, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia. (Ian Wilkinson)

• 11 Nov 2011, Invited lecture, "Exploring Discrete Dynamics", National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico.

• 9-10 Nov 2011, Main speaker "Exploring Discrete Dynamics with DDLab", Workshop on Complex Systems as Computing Models (WCSCM2011), Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

• 8-12 August 2011: Workshop/tutorial, "Exploring Discrete Dynamics with DDLab", European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 11), in Paris, France.

• 22-24 June 2009: Invited talk "Complex dynamics, basins of attraction, and memory in discrete networks", Summer Solstice Workshop on Discrete Dynamical Systems, University of Gdansk, Poland.

• 4-8 Aug 2008: DDLab demo, Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife X1), Winchester, UK.

• 12-14 June 2008: Invited talk "Encryption using Cellular Automata Chain-rules", AUTOMATA 2008, EPSRC Workshop Cellular Automata Theory and Applications, Bristol, UK.

• 8 Aug 2008: Invited lecture "Complex dynamics, basins of attraction, and memory in discrete networks", School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, UK. (Sillas Hadjiloucas)

• 13-15 Nov 2006: Invited speaker/seminar, "Studying discrete dynamical networks with DDLab", Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione - Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. (Stefania Bandini)

• 20-23 Sept 2006: Main speaker and DDLab demo: "Spiral glider-guns in hexagonal cellular automata". Seventh International conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Modelling, Analysis and Emergent Computation (ACRI 2006), MEPS-Université de Perpignan, France.

• 8th Feb 2006: Invited talk "Complex dynamics, basins of attraction, and content addressable memory", Artificial LifE Reading Group In Cogs (ALERGIC), School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Centre for Computational Neurosciences and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK.

• 16 Dec 2005: Invited lecture, "The dynamics of cellular automata", Complex & Intelligent Systems Research Group, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. (Janet Wiles)

• 5-8 Dec 2005: Kenote speaker "Emergent complexity in 3-value Cellular Automata", The Second "Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2005): Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Hussein Abbass, Terry Bossomaier)

• 28 Nov - 2 Dec 2005: Faculty and lectures, 4th Complex Sytems Summer School: Complexity and the Mind, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. (Terry Bossomaier)

• 5-9 Sept 2005 Tutorial on Random Boolean Networks (with Carlos Gershenson) VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2005), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

• 18-19 April 2005: Invited talk: "Discrete dynamical networks, basins of attraction, and content addressable memory", The Grand Callenge in Non-Classical Computation (ICCS2004). University of York, UK.

• 18 Jan 2005: The Leverhulme Lecture (as Leverhulme Visiting Professor) "Self-organization in Cellular Automata", Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

• 13 Jan 2005: Invited talk: Natural Computing Applications Forum (NCAF), Aston University, Bristol, UK.(BAE SYSTEMS).

• 12-15 Sept 2004: speaker "Self-reproduction by glider collisions: the beehive rule", Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9), Boston, MA, USA.

• 16-21 May 2004: Pedagogical speaker "Studying discrete dynamical networks with DDLab", International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2004), New England Society of Complex Systems (NESCI), Boston, MA, USA.

• 15 Oct 2003: Invited speaker "Life-like Processes in Cellular Automata", CEMS conference of PhD students, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

• 22 Aug 2003: Invited talk "Life-like Processes in Cellular Automata", FriamGroup Applied Complexity Lecture, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

• 5th Feb 2003: Invited talk "Multi-value DDLab and multi-value 'Life'", Artificial LifE Reading Group In Cogs (ALERGIC), School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Centre for Computational Neurosciences and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK.

• 25 Oct 2002: Invited talk, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, UK. (Jason Alexander)

• 8 July - 2 Aug 2002: Faculty and lectures, Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, Budapest, Hungary.

• Jan 2002: Invited talk, Departamento de Aplicacion de Microcomputadoras, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Autnoma de Puebla, Mexico. (Harold V. McIntosh, José Manuel Gómez Soto)

• 9 Jan 2002, Invited talk, "Demo of Discrete Dynamics Lab", Artificial LifE Reading Group In Cogs (ALERGIC), School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Centre for Computational Neurosciences and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK.

• 1-21 July 2001: participant/talk, Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering, CO, USA. (Rodney Douglas, Mark Tilden)

• 5-8 June 2001: Invited lectures, Centro Interdipartimentale della Comunicazione e Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione, Universit della Calabria, Italia. (Eleonora Bilotta, Antonio Lafusa)

• 10-16 Dec 2000: Faculty and lectures, "Complexity in simple Networks", 2nd Bienual Complex Systems Summer School, Charles Sturt University, School of Information Technology, Bathhurst, Australia. (Terry Bossomier)

• 11-14 May 2000: Invited Speaker "Basins of Attraction in Network Dynamics: A Conceptual Framework for Biomolecular Networks", Symposium on "Modularity in development and evolution", Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany.

• 1-6 Aug 2000: "DDLab Tutorial/Workshop" ALifeVII, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA.

• 17 May 2000, invited talk, "Encryption with Cellular Automata", Artificial LifE Reading Group In Cogs (ALERGIC), School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Centre for Computational Neurosciences and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK.

• 13-17 Sept 1999: DDLab Demo, ECAL 99, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 99), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

• 27 June - 17 July 1999: participant/talk, Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering, CO, USA. (Rodney Douglas, Mark Tilden)

• 17 June 1999: Invited lecture, SFI summer school, Santa Fe, NM, USA. (Brosl Hasslacher)

• 4 March - 1 April 1999: In collaboratin with Chris Langton, an exhibit "Complexity in Small Universes", in an art exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery, and invited talks at the Merged Realities Symposium, "Objective Wonder: Data as Art", artists and scientists in a discussion at the crossroads of two cultures, March 4-6, "Merged Realities Exposition'99", University of Arizona.

• 6-18 Dec 1998: Faculty and lectures, Summer School in Complex Systems, Charles Sturt University, Bathhurst, School of Information Technology, Australia.
• 30 Nov - 3 Dec 1998: Principle Speaker, Complex Systems'98, Complexity Between the Ecos: From Ecology to Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

• 29 June - 19 July 19 1998: participant/talk, Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering, CO, USA. (Mark Tilden, Rodney Douglas,)

• 18-21 May 1998: Talks and meetings at MIT AI Lab, Harvard, and Boston University. Visit organised by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). (Yaneer Bar-Yam)

• 4-9 Jan 1998:, Talk "Genomic Regulation Modeled as a Network with Basins of Attraction", Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing '98, Maui, Hawaii.

• 4-6 Dec 1997: Invited talk, SFI/W-G Conference: Understanding Small-Scale Societies through Agent-Based Modeling, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Tim Kohler)

• 13 March 1996: Invited talk, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Lab, NM. (Christian Reidys, Steen Rasmussen)

• 4-6 June 1995: Demo: "Discrete Dynamics Lab: Cellular Automata - Random boolean networks", European Conf. on Artificial Life (ECAL 95), Granada, Spain.

• 27-28 Jan 1995: visit, talks and seminars, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATRI), Kyoto, Japan.

• 15-24 Jan 1995: Invited talk/seminars, "Discrete Dynamics Lab" SFI Colloquium Series, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

• 18-29 April 1994: Talk/seminars (SFI Colloquium Series) " "Complexity in One-D Cellular Automata: Gliders, Basins of Attraction and the Z parameter", Santa Fe Institute, NM. USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

• 12-17 April 1994: Invited Speaker, "The Emergence of Memory; Categorisation Far From Equilibrium", international and interdisciplinary conference "Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness", Tucson, Arizona,USA.

• 8-22 April 1993: Invited talk/seminars, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

• 23 Nov 1993: Invited talk, Physics and Media Talk Group, MIT Media Lab. (Josh Smith)

• 21-26 June 1993: Talk, "Chaos and Complexity" meeting, Blois, France.

• 24-26 Aug 1992 Invited talk, Autopoiesis and Perception workshop, Dublin City University, Irland. (Barry McMullin, Francisco Varela)

• 15-19 June 1992: Talk "The Ghost in the Machine: Basins of Attraction of Random Boolean Networks", Artificial Life III, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• 28-30 Sept 1992: Demo of pre-DDLab software, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2 (PPSN-II) Brussels, Belgium.

• 4-7 Sept 1992: Demo of pre-DDLab software, (paper: "Basins of Attraction in Disordered Networks"), International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-92), Brighton, UK. (Igor Alekander)

• 10-14 Dec 1991: Demo of pre-DDLab software, European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL (1991), Paris, France.

• 2-15 Aug 1991: Invited talk/seminars, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

• 21-30 April 1991: Invited talk/seminars, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

• 13-14 March 1990: Invited talk/seminars, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. (Stuart Kauffman, Chris Langton).

The jump-graph with the relevant basins of attraction drawn inside each node, rule 141.

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