Bootstrap Percolation: Frivolous Questions and Daunting Problems

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• Béla Bollobás (DPMMS, University of Cambridge)
• Friday 16 November 2012, 19:00-20:00
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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(Free for members, £2 for non-members)

Bootstrap percolation, introduced by Chalupa, Leath and Reich in 1979, is one of the simplest cellular automata. In the talk we shall present a selection of problems and results concerning it, from coffee-time questions to major results and unsolved problems.

This talk is part of the The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society) series.

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