Thursday, October 18, 2012 : Opening lecture by Prof. Bernard Chazelle

Algorithmic language is expressively rich enough to cope with the high descriptive complexity of the living world. Cellular circuits, schools of fish, flocks of birds, rumor transmission, crowd movements and political polarization are all examples of social dynamics that lend themselves to modeling by natural algorithms. Algorithms are essential to ^21st-century science, and are one of the major challenges facing computer science today.

Admission free, subject to availability.

The lesson will be filmed and recorded, then broadcast on a delayed basis.