Aaron Sterling

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University

Contact/Teaching:

Research Office: Atanasoff B023. Email: lastname-AT-cs.iastate.edu
Com S 207 (Programming I) Recitations: 3:10-4, 4:10-5 in Pearson 105. Office Hours: 10-11:50 in Pearson 145

Research Groups

Information and Complexity
Laboratory for Nanoscale Self-Assembly
My advisor is Jack Lutz.

Award

ISNSCE Award 2009 (given to best paper at DNA 15 with student as lead author).

Service

Reviewer, Natural Computing.

Song

I wrote the computer science humor song "I Just Do Theory," and Homage the Halfrican Cracker has recorded it. Lyrics, mp3. Reviews by Scott Aaronson here and Bill Gasarch here.

Publications

A. Sterling. Memory Consistency Conditions for Self-Assembly Programming, in: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science, January 2010 (ICS 2010), pp. 490-500.

A. Sterling. Brief Announcement: Self-Assembly as Graph Grammar as Distributed System, in: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2009 (PODC 2009), pp. 322-323. [ pdf ]

A. Sterling. Distributed Agreement in Tile Self-Assembly, in: Proceedings of the 15th International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, June 2009 (DNA 15), LNCS 5877, pp. 154-163. (ISNSCE Award.)

A. Sterling. A Limit to the Power of Multiple Nucleation in Self-Assembly, in: Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing, September 2008 (DISC 2008), LNCS 5218, pp. 451-465.

Under Submission to Journals

A. Sterling. A Time Lower Bound for Multiple Nucleation on a Surface. Submitted.
A. Sterling. Distributed Agreement in Tile Self-Assembly (full version). Submitted.

Technical Reports

A. Sterling. Self-Assembling Systems are Distributed Systems.
A. Sterling. Self-Assembly of a Statistically Self-Similar Fractal.