GReTA seminar: "Spatialized synchronous computations with Global Transformations"
Channel: GReTA Seminar
Date: 2023-02-24

Speaker:

Alexandre Fernandez (Department of Computer Science, LIP, ENS de Lyon, France)


Abstract:

This presentation outlines some ideas of my PhD about Global Transformations. These form a general method to describe local and synchronous spatialized dynamical systems such as Cellular Automata and Lindenmayer systems. This work originated from the goal of extending such systems to dynamical graphs. This talk first introduces the categorical formalism, and providing examples of such systems over different structures such as words or graphs. It also give simple instances of many categorical constructions, such as comma categories, colimits and Kan extensions. These tools are then used to relate the local specification of a system and its global behavior. The extension of this formalism to non-deterministic computations is finally considered.


About the GReTA seminars:

The GReTA – Graph TRansformation Theory and Applications virtual seminar series aims to serve as a platform for the international graph rewriting community, to promote recent developments and trends in the field, and to permit a regular networking and interaction between members of this community. Seminars are held twice a month in the form of Zoom sessions (some of which will be live-streamed to YouTube). Please refer to http://www.irif.fr/~greta for further details (including information on how to register for participating in the Zoom meetings).