Project Talks for Natural Computation and Self-Organization
(Physics 250, Spring 2014)

1. Raphael Bravo, Spatio-Temporal Complexity Revealed in Brain Imaging:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
2. Sercan Ceyhan, Modeling Groundwater with Hidden Markov Random Fields:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
3. Nithin Dhananjayan, Information Transfer in Spatially Extended Systems:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
4. Reinhard Gentz, Pulse Coupled Oscillators: A Decentralized Bio-inspired Communication Protocol<
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
5. Vladimir Iglovikov, Information and Order Parameters in the Gauge Ising Model:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
6. Gorm Jensen, Causal Irreversibility—What and How:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
7. Pooneh Ara, The Elusive Present: Hidden past and future correlation and why we build models:
8. Solveig Naess, Entropy Rate and Statistical Complexity of Dynamical Neurons:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
9. Dmitry Shemetov, ε-Machine Estimation and Forecasting—Comparing Inference Methods:
   • Report (pdf).
   • Presentation (pdf).
10. Jordan Snyder, Pathwise Information Theory in Two Dimensions:
    • Report (pdf).
    • Presentation (pdf).
11. John Wilson, Information along Time-like and Space-like Paths in One-dimensional Cellular Automata:
    • Report (pdf).
    • Presentation (pdf).
12. Amanda Young, Quantum Finite State Machines:
    • Report (pdf).
    • Presentation (pdf).