Chapter 12: Interdisciplinary Topics
Lecture 1: Monday April 7
Lecture notes: ch12-lec1.pdf
- Protein Folding
- Protein Sequences
- Folding and Structure
- Monte Carlo simulation of a 2-D protein
Lecture 2: Wednesday April 9
Lecture notes: ch12-lec2.pdf
- Mechanism of Protein Folding
- Lattice Monte Carlo Model
- Folding and non-folding sequences
Lecture 3: Friday April 11
Lecture notes: ch12-lec3.pdf
- Earthquakes and Self-Organized Criticality
- Earthquakes and the Gutenberg-Richter Law
- Self-organized Criticality
- Bak-Tang Earthquake Fault Model
Lecture 4: Monday April 14
Lecture notes: ch12-lec4.pdf
- Earthquakes and Self-Organized Criticality
- Gutenberg-Richter Law
- Burridge-Knopoff Model
- Cellular-Automaton Earthquake Model
Lecture 5: Wednesday April 16
Lecture notes: ch12-lec5.pdf
- Neural Networks and the Brain
- General References
- Neural Network Models
Lecture 6: Friday April 18
Lecture notes: ch12-lec6.pdf
- What is Life?
- Real Neurons and Action Potential
- Squids
- Hodgkin-Huxley Equations
Lecture 7: Monday April 21
Lecture notes: ch12-lec7.pdf
- Cellular Automata
- Basic ingredients of cellular automaton models
- One-dimensional Cellular Automaton
- Conway's Game of Life
Lecture 8: Wednesday April 23
Lecture notes: ch12-lec8.pdf
- Ion Channels in Cell Membranes
- Optimization Problems
- The Thomson Problem
- The Traveling Salesman Problem
- Genetic Algorithms
- More on Genetic Algorithms
Lecture 9: Friday April 25
Lecture notes: ch12-lec9.pdf
- Two dimensional sandpile automaton
- Model and local update rule
- A typical steady state
- Self-organized criticality
- Two-dimensional sandpile automaton simulation
Codes: sand2.cpp
Lecture 10: Monday April 28
Lecture notes: ch12-lec10.pdf
- Forest Fire Model
- Initializing the forest
- Local update rule
- OpenGL Forest File Program
- Results found by Bak and collaborators
- Lattice Gas Cellular Automaton Model for Fluid Flow
- OpenGL Lattice Gas Program
- Continuum Limit of Lattice Gas Cellular Automaton Model
- The equations of fluid dynamics
- Continuum limit of the lattice gas equations
Codes: fire.cpp latgas.cpp
Richard J. Gonsalves