FISLAB - Computational Physics and Complex Systems Laboratory

Prof. Gianpiero CattaneoLaboratory Leader

FISLAB

Main research areas Complex Systems Simulation Cellular Automata Chaos Many-valued Logics Quantum Computation Parallel and Distributed Computing Issues

FISLAB

Five research scientists Various external collaborators, 10 to 14

graduated students per year About 200 publications and 1 patent since’99 Research supported by (since 1999) Università

Milano-Bicocca, MIUR, EU, INFN, Eni Tecnologie

Collaborations with other Research Structures

University of Aix-Marseille I,University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, ENS Lyon, University of Paris-Est, University of Toulouse III (France) – Interlink project

Univerisity of Warsaw (Poland) University of Regina (Canada) University of Chengdu (China) University of Calcutta (India)

INFN (Italy) CERN Geneva (Switzerland)

Cellular Automata - Formal Approach

Dynamical Behaviour and Chaos Decidability Simbolic dynamics and formal languages

Simulations by Cellular Automata

Fractal Percolation in porous media Computational Fluid Dynamics Interaction of Multi-Phase Fluids

Simulations by Cellular Automata

50 iterations 200 iterations

400 iterations >1000 iterations

Simulations by Cellular Automata

Prey-Predator Systems Comparison with Lotka-Volterra Equations

Managing imprecision – rough sets

Theoretical approach: algebra, topology, entropy Data mining: rules generation, approximations,

significance of attributes

Managing imprecision – fuzzy sets

Algebraic semantic of many valued logics

Semantic web:

fuzzy ontology

Quantum Computing

Realization of the quantum logical gate CNOT by laser

optical nano-technology

Parallel and Grid Computing Distributed data analysis for HEP experiments (with INFN

& CERN)

Dynamic Load Balancing and P2P methods for Grid

Parallel and Grid Computing

SCILX: HPC cluster beowulf with 40 CPUs and Dolphin Interconnection cards (bandwith 250Mb/s, latency >5ns )

ADDRESS & LINK

All informations about us and our publications

are available at the Laboratory web site

http://www.fislab.disco.unimib.it/