NSF Grant Awarded!

Robert Schweller and Tim Wylie were just awarded a 3-year NSF grant for the project “Unifying Self-Assembly through Tile Automata.” We are extremely excited about the number of opportunities this will open up for the research group.

The formal UTRGV announcement of the award is here: http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2018/july-11-national-science-foundation-awards-grant-to-utrgvs-department-of-computer-science/index.htm

Also, our congressman (Representative Vicente Gonzalez) posted about it here: https://gonzalez.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-gonzalez-announces-nearly-500000-nsf-grant-utrgv-computer-science

Short abstract accepted to JCDCG^3 2018

A short abstract and presentation was accepted to be presented at the 21st Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games. The paper, titled Tile Pattern-Building Games on a Grid are PSPACE-complete, is the outcome of a class project led by Angel and Austin from the Spring 2017 special topics course on games and computation. The full author list is Arturo Gonzalez, Cesar Lozano, Austin Luchsinger, Eduardo Medina, Fernando Martinez, Arnoldo Ramirez, and Tim Wylie.

Link

Freezing Simulates Non-freezing Tile Automata

Title: Freezing Simulates Non-freezing Tile Automata

Authors: Cameron Chalk, Austin Luchsinger, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Andrew Winslow, and Tim Wylie
Abstract:

Citation: Proc. of 24th Inter. Conf. on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA’18)
Bibtex:
PDF:

New summer researchers

We have several new students working with us this summer on a variety of topics. They are being added to the members section and will have more information up shortly including contact information/etc. We’re excited to have everyone on board!