CSE Seminar Series

Reception: 3:00 p.m., Duthie Center 2nd Floor
Seminar: 3:30 p.m., Duthie Center Room 117

On the Origin of e-Species

Dr. Jonatan Gomez, Professor and Director, Artificial Life Research Group, National University of Columbia

Artificial Life is a relatively new research area in computer sciences that studies and recreates systems related to life by using computer simulations, robotics and bio chemistry. This talk gives an overview of the different concepts involved in the artificial life research area (including dynamic systems, chaos, fractals, biology, physics, chemistry), presents some of the artificial life models (Turing morphs, auto-catalytic systems, cellular automata, evolutionary concepts, swarm algorithms) and shows some of the current research work carried on by the alife (artificial life) research group of the National University of Colombia.

Dr. Gomez received a B.E. degree in Computer Systems from National University of Colombia, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from The University of Memphis. In 1995, he joined National University of Colombia as an Assistant Professor. He is now a Professor, and the Director of the Artificial Life Research Group, National University of Colombia. He has published numerous papers and he is the recipient of many research grants, including the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program Grant. He is currently a Fullbright scholar at the Knowledge Discovery & Web Mining Lab at the University of Louisville.