Reading: Lecture Notes.
Topics:

1. Review last lecture.
2. Spatially extended dynamical systems
   1. How to make
   2. State space
   3. What does dynamical systems have to say?
3. Cellular Automata
   1. Definitions
   2. Mathematical properties
   3. 1D CAs
   4. Behavior Survey
   5. CA Computational Mechanics: Invariant Sets, Domains, Particles
   6. Synchronous and Asynchronous CAs
   7. 2D CAs
   8. Simulation examples
4. Nonlinear Map Lattices
   1. Definitions
   2. Mathematical properties
   3. 1D LDSs
   4. Simulation examples
5. Statistical Mechanics: Spin systems
   1. Ising Spin System
   2. As a CA: Creutz Model
   3. Phase transition
   4. Simulation examples

Reading for next meeting: EIT, Chapters 1 and 2.