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 228 (Data Structures) Recitation: Monday 2:10-3:00 Gilman 2113. Office Hours: Tu/Th 9:00-9:50 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).

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. To appear in the First Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science, January 2010 (ICS 2010).

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. To appear in the Proceedings of the 15th International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, June 2009 (DNA 15), LNCS. (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.