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Mortveit, Henning , Ph.D.
Faculty - Mortveit, Henning

Associate Professor, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Phone: (540) 231-5327
Email: hmortveit@vbi.vt.edu
Fax: 540-231-2891

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Professional Preparation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Mathematics, Ph.D., 2000
  • Norwegian Institute of Technology, Mathematics, MS, 1995
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mathematics and Simulation, Postdoctoral Associate, 2002

Research Interests

  • Discrete, finite dynamical systems, specifically sequential dynamical systems and generalized cellular automata
  • Graph dynamics and the interplay between graph structure and dynamical properties
  • Mathematical modeling of discrete dynamical systems

Biography

Henning Mortveit joined Virginia Tech in 2005 as a Senior Research Associate in the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. Mortveit received his doctorate in mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2000, and spent five years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a technical staff member. His current research is focused on the area of finite dynamical systems, with an emphasis on sequential dynamical systems and generalized cellular automata. This class of systems represents a natural framework and modeling tool for biological systems, social systems, and distributed systems. He is also involved in the study and implementation of large-scale, generalized cellular automata on new computing architectures such as field programmable gate arrays.

Selected Publications


Macauley M, Mortveit HS. Cycle equivalence of graph dynamical systems. Nonlinearity. 2009:421–436.

Macauley M, Mortveit HS. On enumeration of cojugacy classes of coxeter elements. Proceedings of theAmerican Mathematical Society. 2007;136:4157–4165.

Macauley M, McCammond J, Mortveit HS. Order independence in asynchronous cellular automata. Journal of Cellular Automata. 2008;3:37–56.

Mortveit HS, Reidys C. An introduction to sequential dynamical systems. Springer; 2007.

Hansson AA, Mortveit HS, Reidys CM. On asynchronous cellular automata. Advances in Complex Systems. 2005;8:521–538.