Week Seven
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The weeks are starting to go by faster as the end of my ten weeks at Tufts comes to an end. This week was filled with mostly research, though I did do a couple fun things outside of research. I had the opportunity to go see Blue Man group which was an amazing show. They interact with the crowd a lot which was tons of fun. They even game some people paintings they did while performing. I would have to say it was one of the funnest things I have done in Boston.
For our lunch meeting this week we had Chinese take out, which I love. I had sweet and sour chicken and crab rangoons. For reading group this week we only had one thing to read. Our reading was about probabilistic complexity classes. I found the reading interesting since I had never heard of most of the complexity classes we discussed though I knew of a couple from a theory class I had taken last spring.
I spent most of this week working on my research. I have been looking at oscillators in cellular automata using the game of life rule set. This week I took oscillators with periods two through fifty-seven and looked at them individually as I oscillated through their cycle. I was looking at any distinguishing shapes that appeared in other oscillators and any kind of behavior that I could use to categorize oscillators with. I was able to find a couple different still lifes and other small patterns that occurred in many of the low period oscillators. I was also able to group oscillators together based on their symmetry, average number of cells changing, and whether they were composed of a combination of smaller oscillators. I also started working on my poster and speech for the leadership alliance symposium I will be attending at the end of next week.