Indian Summer School on Cellular Automata

An Internship Program on Cellular Automata: Theory and Applications

Cellular automaton (CA) is a paradigm of unconventional fine-grained parallel computation that is being extensively used to model several applications in real life.

Indian Summer School on Cellular Automata was introduced in 2021 on the platform of Cellular Automata India as a virtual internship program to train young cellular automata enthusiasts from multi-disciplinary domains on the theory and applications of cellular automata. This school offers a state-of-the art internship program on cellular automata (CAs) for students, professionals and researchers, where the participants can explore various aspects of cellular automata in different domains.

This free internship program is rigorously research-based and follows strict evaluation criterion. The duration of the summer school is of two months containing two phases. In the First phase, an introductory course on CAs is offered. Theory classes contain regular assignments which the participants have to submit on time to continue. At the end of the theory course, there will be a written test. Participants have to qualify this test to be eligible for the second phase. Second phase contains one month of research-oriented project work. Only the eligible participants from the written test will be offerred projects which will be mentored by expert(s) on that field. A group of participants may be assigned the same project to work as a team. There will be weekly evaluation of the progress on project work and at the end of the school, a project report needs to be prepared.

The assigned project is research oriented and may not be completed within this one month period. The participants need to agree that they will continue working on the project with the respective mentors and complete it within a stipulated time. Only after completion of the project and submission of the outcome as a research article, she/he will be provided the internship certificate subject to endorsement from the mentor about the completion of the work.

Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology

Cellular Automaton (CA), one of the most emergent areas in natural computing, is a paradigm of uniform fine-grained parallel computation which has been explored to understand complex systems by developing its model at the microscopic level. From the last three decades, CA as technology is being used to solve many real-life problems in the domain of VLSI (very large scale integration) design and test, pattern recognition and classification, cryptography, pseudo random pattern generation, in-memory computation, image processing, data compression, medical imaging, bioinformatics etc.

Since long, India along with other Asian countries has played a significant role in research on cellular automata (CAs): theory and applications. Many of these researchers work in the domain of Cellular Automata Technology. However, there is no conference or symposium organized till date in India or anywhere in the world dedicated to this topic.

Recently, during this ongoing time of pandemic, some of the Indian researchers have come forward in creating a research group, Cellular Automata India where most of the CAs researchers and scientists from India as well as many renowned scientists from around the globe have joined. This time this platform has been extended to start a new series of symposiums as a meeting place of the international intelligentsia to share, review, discuss and collaborate on CAs.

Target of this symposium is to promote fundamental research on automata theory and Cellular Automata Technology based unconventional design approaches for different emergent areas and challenges. It can also popularize research on unconventional computing among the academicians, scientists and engineers of Asian countries and promote international collaboration between Computer Scientists, Mathematicians and Technologists of Asia and the other parts of the world.