On October 1, 2009 Joshua Socolar will be leading a discussion on Autonomous Boolean Networks.

Location: 4219 French Family Science Center

Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Abstract: Networks of binary elements interacting through Boolean rules can exhibit complex dynamics and may provide useful models for biological and physical systems (gene regulation and high-speed electronic circuits). In developing such models, a crucial issue is the update scheme used to implement the Boolean logic. In autonomous Boolean networks (ABNs), the timing of updates is determined by time delays assigned to each link. I will discuss some general features of ABNs and describe two applications of current interest here at Duke.