Projects for Natural Computation and Self-Organization
(Physics 256, Winter 2009)

1. Jason Barnett, Entropy Estimates of Finite Data:
   • Report (html) (broken).
   • Presentation (pdf).
2. Franz Bozsak, Measure for Turbulence—Preliminary Ideas:
   • Report (pdf),
   • Presentation (pdf), and
   • MatLab Code: field_sim.m, Lorenz9_analysis.m, and Lorenz9_sim.m.
3. Shane Celis and Yun Tao, Musings on the Logistic Map:
   • Celis: Partition Matters and Entropy Measures with the Logistic Map, Report (pdf),
   • Tao: Logistic Map—Ecologically Considered, Report (pdf), and
   • Presentation (pdf).
4. Ryan James, Block Entropy in 1+1 Dimensions:
   • Report and Presentation (html) (broken).
   • Note: Click on the 0 in the lower right, there's more content than in the presentation itself.
5. Ben Johnson, An Introduction to Quantum Computation:
   • Report (pdf) and
   • Presentation (pdf).
6. Paul Smaldino, Does Learning Mean a Decrease in Entropy?
   • Report (pdf) and
   • Presentation (pdf).
7. Ruggero Tacchi, Interplanetary Transport Network:
   • Report and Presentation (pdf).
8. Nicholas Travers, Computational Mechanics of ECAs, and Machine Metrics:
   • Report [missing] (pdf) and
   • Presentation (pdf).
9. Richard Watson, Information Thoeretic Approaches to Spiking Models:
   • Report and Presentation (html).
   • Code (Python).
10. Juliette Zerick, The Armageddon Equations:
    • Report (pdf) and
    • Presentation (pdf).
11. Renjun Xu, Rikitake Model of Geomagnetic Reversal:
    • Report (pdf).