[DMANET] AUTOMATA & WAN call for PARTICIPATION: July 12-17, 2021, Marseille, France

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that it is now rather clear that our workshops
Automata (on cellular automata) and WAN (on automata networks) will take
place both remotely and physically, at CIRM in Marseille (gates of the
Parc National des Calanques, accessible by metro and bus from Marseille
main station and harbor).

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July 12th-17th 2021,
CIRM, Marseille, France
https://automata-wan-2021.lis-lab.fr/
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You can now see the (promising) tentative program :
https://automata-wan-2021.lis-lab.fr/program

Anyone wishing to participate in either way should preregister and book
from https://automata-wan-2021.lis-lab.fr/registration (180 EUR fees for
physical partitipants to Automata will be charged in a second step,
announced to them by e-mail).

We look forward to seeing you in Marseille!

The Organizing Committee
(Pablo Arrighi, Amelia Durbec, Natanael Eon, Guilhem Gamard, Pierre
Guillon, Etienne Moutot, Kevin Perrot, Antonio E. Porreca, Elisabeth
Remy, Sylvain Sene, Guillaume Theyssier)
automata-wan-2021@liste.lis-lab.fr

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AUTOMATA (July 12th-14th) is the official annual event of IFIP WG 1.5, the Working Group
5 (on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems) of the Technical
Committee 1 (on Foundations of Computer Science) of the International
Federation for Information Processing.

* Aims:
The purpose of this conference is to highlight the major advances in the
field and the development of new tools, to support the development of
theory and applications of CA and DCS, and to identify and study within
an inter- and multidisciplinary context the important fundamental
aspects, concepts, notions and problems concerning CA and DCS.

* Topics (not exhaustive):
dynamical, topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects of CAs and DCSs
algorithmic and complexity issues
emergent properties
formal languages
symbolic dynamics
tilings
models of parallelism and distributed systems
synchronous versus asynchronous models
phenomenological descriptions and scientific modelling
applications of CAs and DCSs

* Invited speakers:
Maximilien Gadouleau (Durham University, UK)
Luca Priogioniero (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Siamak Taati (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Ilkka Torma (University of Turku, Finland)

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WAN (July 14th-17th) is an international workshop dedicated to Automata
Networks, namely finite dynamical systems.

* Aims:
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together, favor exchanges and
work together, through oral scientific presentations and joint thematic
working sessions, the community which studies automata networks, from
the perspective of mathematics and computer science. This will notably
be the place to take stock of recent advances in the field, and to
identify open questions and inspire the community with promising
theoretical and applied research directions.

* Topics (not exhaustive):
links between static and dynamical characteristics
organisation of time and updating
importance of feedback and (non-)convergence
convergence time and behavioral optimization
simulation
modularity / compositionality
modelling

* Invited speakers:
Maximilien Gadouleau (Durham University, UK)
Matthew Macauley (Clemson University, US)
Elisa Tonello (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Jorge G. T. Zanudo (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US)

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Eric Goles's 70th birthday:
July 14th will serve as a junction between the two events mentioned
above, and will give the opportunity to celebrate Eric Goles's 70th
birthday.

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