Discrete Math Seminar Spring 2009
Boolean Networks, Combinatorics, and the Fractal Nature of Life
John Konvalina, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Special Time: Fri Mar 13 at 2:30pm in 109 Avery
The solution to a deceptively simple combinatorial problem on bit strings results in the emergence of a fractal related to the Sierpinski Gasket. The result is generalized to higher dimensions and applied to the study of global dynamics in Boolean network models of complex biological systems.
