Senior Researcher at Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology.
The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory they are the same, but in practice they are different. (Anonymous)
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Senior Researcher at Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology. The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory they are the same, but in practice they are different. (Anonymous) |
Address: same as Institute of Cybernetics
Phone:
(Estonia international prefix)
620
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Email:
name, at, cs, dot, ioc, dot, ee
I was born in Rome, Italy,
where I earned my Laurea (MSc, 2000)
and Dottorato di ricerca (PhD, 2005) in Mathematics
from La Sapienza.
I have been a visiting scholar at Boston University,
an Adjunct at my alma mater,
and for two years a Postdoc at Reykjavik University
before arriving at IoC.
I speak fluent English and French;
can chat in Estonian, Latin, and Spanish;
know a bit of Icelandic and Polish;
and plan to learn some Russian and German.
My research is focused on
cellular automata,
a model of synchronous parallel computation,
where similar finite-state machines placed on the nodes of a grid
update their state according to that of a finite neighborhood.
I am especially interested in the properties of global dynamics.
I have written several papers about the properties of cellular automata
that follow from those of the underlying grid.
I am also co-author, with Tommaso Toffoli and Patrizia Mentrasti,
of three papers (two research, one popularization)
on the rewriting of cellular automata
as different types of parallel systems.
Other interests include
theory of computation,
topological dynamics,
algebra,
and some game theory.
My Erdős number is 4, one possible path being:
Paul Erdős
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Gregory A. Freiman
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Lev B. Levitin
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Tommaso Toffoli
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Silvio Capobianco
Here is a list of my publications.
From September 14 to December 7, 2010 I have been a Teaching Assistant for the course ITT9130 -- Concrete Mathematics taught by Prof. Jaan Penjam.
Here is a cycle of seminars I have given on April and May 2010.
My favorite programming language is Python. I am currently learning Haskell.
I am a user of the SIMP/STEP cellular automata software by Ted Bach. I will keep a page on the subject.
I have organized a mini-workshop on cellular automata software, held on August 31, 2010. I will keep a page on the subject.
I typeset my articles with LaTeX.
I have used the
Maxima
computer algebra system
to prepare and check exercises for my students.
I am currently experimenting with
Scilab.
Here is a list of books from my bookshelf. Colleagues wanting to consult some, are welcome to ask.
And here is a selection of quotes.