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APPLICATIONS (some, by ourselves...)

Other Applications (by ourselves, too):
WHY Geometry for Life? Cos we are also doing the same: trying some geometric experiments (and for the last 16 years) in the field...

2025 - Geometries by Cellular Automata on Complex Systems
https://portal.ufrpe.br/br/content/estudantes-de-gradua%C3%A7%C3%A3o-da-ufrpe-aceitos-em-escola-internacional-de-ver%C3%A3o-em-massachusetts
2024 - ZophIA.tech by Harvard
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-systems-innovation-lab/2024/05/07/congratulations-to-the-2024-hackathon-winners/
2024 - in Nepal by LaVanguardia https://www.lavanguardia.com/launi/20240105/9490180/cuines-xemeneia-per-millorar-qualitat-vida-dones-i-nens-nepal-mes-rural.html
https://www.upc.edu/ca/sala-de-premsa/noticies/cuines-xemeneia-per-millorar-qualitat-aire-nepal
Brazil - by USP https://www.ufrpe.br/br/content/zophiatech%C2%A0ganha-o-harvard-health-systems-innovation-labs%E2%80%AFhackathon-2024-no-hub-brasil-no
2023 - by Santander
https://www.ufpe.br/agencia/noticias/-/asset_publisher/dlhi8nsrz4hK/content/bertoleza-startup-de-estudantes-de-medicina-da-ufpe-de-pos-graduandos-do-ilika-e-de-matematica-esta-entre-as-dez-finalistas-brasileiras-no-santander-x/40615
2023 - by Gov.PE https://ces.saude.pe.gov.br/pernambuco-realiza-a-10a-conferencia-estadual-de-saude/
2023 - in China by Xinhua: http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/20230318/9c69bfe3c04d4dd5a8c64d0e16176884/c.html
2023 - in Spain by EL Pais https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2023-12-15/la-inteligencia-artificial-se-pone-a-prueba-con-la-salud-de-poblaciones-del-sur-global.html
2022 - by Gov.PE https://www.folhape.com.br/noticias/cientistas-e-instituicoes-sao-homenageados-no-cais-do-sertao-pela/239344/
2021 - by Defesa Civil - PE https://www.ufpe.br/agencia/noticias/-/asset_publisher/dlhi8nsrz4hK/content/pesquisador-do-lika-da-ufpe-recebe-honraria-concedida-pela-secretaria-executiva-de-defesa-civil-de-pernambuco/40615
2021 - in Malawi by Diário de Pernambuco: https://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/noticia/vidaurbana/2021/04/malawi-na-africa-controla-a-covid-19-com-ajuda-de-pesquisado.html
2020 - in NE-Brazil by UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jul/helping-track-and-reduce-covid-19-infections-northeast-brazil
2020 - in Pernambuco by BBC: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-52332235
2020 - in Pernambuco by DW: https://www.dw.com/pt-br/como-pesquisadores-brasileiros-usam-modelos-matem%C3%A1ticos-contra-a-covid-19/a-53394188
2020 - in Pernambuco by JN-GLOBO: https://globoplay.globo.com/v/8476181/

2019 - in Malawi by UNICEF https://www.unicef.org/malawi/press-releases/brazilian-scientists-unicef-use-technology-predict-disease-outbreaks-after-floods
2019 - by Epitrack https://revistapegn.globo.com/Startups/noticia/2019/04/uma-startup-brasileira-ajuda-prevenir-epidemias-no-malawi.html
2019 - in Malawi by The Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/aab0945c-f62c-11e9-bbe1-4db3476c5ff0
2017 - https://www.canallondres.tv/jones-albuquerque-a-matematica-da-saude/ Backup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0ks2Da5-k
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/seminariosfolha/2017/03/1870826-governo-quer-usar-app-para-monitorar-surtos-de-doencas-como-dengue-e-zika.shtml
2016 - by iLIKA and Epitrack https://g1.globo.com/pernambuco/noticia/2016/05/pe-disputa-premio-mundial-com-projeto-de-deteccao-precoce-do-cancer.html
2016 - by UFRPE https://blogs.diariodepernambuco.com.br/diretodaredacao/2016/05/16/o-professor-por-tras-de-uma-grande-ideia/
https://exame.com/casual/empreendedor-quer-criar-cultura-colaborativa-para-controle-epidemias/
2015 - Gov.PE by Epitrack https://publico.recife.pe.leg.br/pysc/download_materia_pysc?cod_materia=NjAwOTQ=&texto_original=1
2014 - by iLIKA-CESAR https://2014.igem.org/Team:LIKA-CESAR-Bras
2014 - by Epitrack https://endingpandemics.org/projects/saude-na-copa/ - https://www.saudebusiness.com/empreendedorismo/vigilncia-participativa-da-sade-conhea-o-epitrack
2012 - by BSI UFRPE https://www.leiaja.com/blogs/2012/07/25/ufrpe-na-campus-party
2010 - by UFRPE and Fiocruz http://200.17.137.109:8081/xiscanoe/awards/copy_of_undergraduate-courses-for-2008_1-in-portuguese
2008 - by UFRPE and Fiocruz http://200.17.137.109:8081/xiscanoe/awards/xiscanoe-ganha-premio-em-simposio-internacional
Be welcomed!
#NaturaNonFacitSaltum

BOOKS

SCORES

CLASS SCHEDULE (4h/class)

MOTIVATIONAL

Homo (self-titled) sapiens - Geometries for a better life? For AlgoMais-PE Magazine https://algomais.com/a-natureza-e-a-gente-o-homo-autointitulado-sapiens-geometrias-e-nao-so-funcoes-para-uma-vida-melhor/

ORDER or DISORDER in Nature? (for MCTi-CETENE) LINKS - https://bit.ly/2024GeometryClimateChange YOUTUBE - https://youtu.be/apXCUpC1rq8?t=7075

KNOWLEDGE, SCHOOL, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION, UNIVERSITY? (for FORGRAD - MEC) https://youtu.be/_-7JSF4zLVw?t=3693

NaturaNonFacitSaltum applied to Health (for PPGBAS-iLIKA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3qBDvo_3A

TIME, a mathematical abstraction? (for GOOGLE, Epitrack, TEDx-UFPE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4zvHWBQ5g&feature=youtu.be

Climate Changes by Geometries (Nobel Prize) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7MKtZCObTW/

1st WEEK

For the first week, the content of book 1 in the photo (which is a review of what you studied in secondary school) - https://impa.br/books/analise-real-vol-1-funcoes-de-uma-variavel/ local copy HERE
Dimensionalities
1, 2, 3... (1/2.. 1/3...) 1/20?? Dantzig's crow - base 5, 0 to 4?? Jones' chickens, base 2? Homo sapiens - base 4 tribe, https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u12303.shtml
https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/
10ˆ0, 10ˆ1, 10ˆ2, 10ˆ3... 10ˆ10, 10ˆ104 (entropy: order or disorder)? Hawking... https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1825
San Francisco River (entropy?) - https://www.instagram.com/p/B2faHvdAnEB/
200/10ˆ6 ? Is that a lot or a little? Is it risky? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-5468/abed4e
Planet Earth, dimensionalities (crust, land X water, temp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFBJr8XRlQ
universe dimensionalities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmZWwclcBY
David Attenborough, Greta... do they have hyperspectral powers? Do they see hyperdimensions?
For the second week, the second book, and so on...

2nd WEEK

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN6XGRgjLQw/ - Why does AI fail miserably? [I]
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMH9KfmSyBM/ Why does AI fail miserably? [II]
https://einsteinrelativelyeasy.com/index.php/dictionary/7-inertial-reference-frame even TIME is relative
END of Science? (Fim (ou Renovação) da Ciência?)

https://www.facepe.br/revista-inovacao-e-desenvolvimento-chega-a-sua-14a-edicao/
Ediçao 14, PDF pela FACEPE (sem links e imagens deles)
https://www.facepe.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Revista_Inovacao-e-Desenvolvimento-14.pdf
PDF nosso (com links e imagens nossas)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HgyK1AiiOQbfHo6ylZTgimz8Bmb8QKrn/view

What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/04/what-if-artificial-intelligence-is-just-a-normal-technology
"AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn’t ⚠️⚠️⚠️, where it might be useful or harmful ☢️☣️⚠️⚰️...
Source: https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/arvind-narayanan-and-sayash-kapoor-on-ai-snake-oil

3rd WEEK - Algebra

Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry... comparable to Notes, Sheet Music, and Music, respectively... in 60 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3qBDvo_3A&t=2616s

Concepts and scientific challenges: (1) The Meaning of Life; (2) Epic Conway´s Game; (3) slides HERE;

Introduction to Cellular Automata: Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III of (The New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media, 2002); (5) Game of Life; (6) http://www.wolfram.com/
Agent Based Modeling(?)

Computational Complexity of Cellular Automata

READING: An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology (lessons 4-6),
Temporal and Spatial dimensions in Epidemiology, A two-year simulation using a real data cellular automaton: A predictive case study with the schistosomiasis expansion process along the coastline of Brazil

Chapter 1 of Introduction to ODEs,
Is ODEs a good model for Epidemiology? Compartimental models. The first formalization by A. G. McKendrick and W. O. Kermack: http://www.math.utah.edu/~bkohler/Journalclub/kermack1927.pdf

Compartmental models in Epidemiology The first formalization by A. G. McKendrick and W. O. Kermack: http://www.math.utah.edu/~bkohler/Journalclub/kermack1927.pdf

Epidemiology in Temporal and Spatial dimensions: A two-year simulation using a real data cellular automaton: A predictive case study with the schistosomiasis expansion process along the coastline of Brazil
What information is possible to get from a human body?

READING - Classical (Mathematical) Epidemic Models and What is Spacetime, really?
Self-replicanting Machines and Dimensions Chapter 1-3 - Book A Discrete View of the World: Fractal Dimension and The Cellular Automaton. Nature and Life: How did life begin? by Stephen Hawking, Gnus X Lions by John Fryxell, Design = mathematics + ICTs + synthetic biology by Neri Oxman. Examples: self-replicating blocks from Cornell (2009), resilient robot from Cornell (2009), self-replicating robots from Harvard (2014). Foundations: "The general and logical theory of automata" (1948!!) by John von Neumann.
SCORE 5 - your first model of a phenomena using Game of Life and some modified rules in an Euclidean dimension and (extra bonus)to calculate the Koch curve perimeter and its similarity dimension.
What is Public Health?

10 -12

CLASS 4 - (hands-on modeling and running models and solving ODEs): Solving First-Order ODEs, ,Solving First-Ord er by Wolfram, Solving by Wolfram Alpha. Modeling a spatial-temporal epidemiological system: by researchers, by STEM since its paper in 2006, by ODEs, by Cellular Automata and ODEs, etc, etc, etc... New ones each day: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/ and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18775845/11 and...

READING - Chapters 1 and 2 from Introduction to EDOs, Solving ODEs by Runge-Kutta (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9todo_de_Runge-Kutta)
SCORE 6 - your model with solving the ODEs on your problem... some examples: fire propagation, urban growth, music, recurve bown, road traffic, fluid simulation, crowd simulation, crowd simulation in a no so good model :-)...

Consulting Classes

13-15

READING - The TIPPING POINT and by Gladwell, Computating a theory of Everything by Stephen Wolfram,
CLASS 5 - jan 28, 2015 - (what is Computational Epidemiology? how to capture the Tipping Points? Is it possible? It is not only GIS (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/2/2/96-0202_article), neither only Math (http://cmmid.lshtm.ac.uk/), neither only Turing Computations of a Information System (https://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/simsickness.htm or http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/7/165478-computational-epidemiology/abstract or http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234. so, what is this? a month "calculation" and... enjoy the trip! whats next? Cancer Epidemiology (1), (2)... and by Epitrack :-) applying into other areas than Health: HealthDrones, Desert-Map, Innovation clustering, technology adoption, Energy clustering, ...
SCORE 7 and 8 - Implementation with Automata and ODEs(?) and a Model analysis and parameters analysis and the Latex report

others...

DELIVERABLES

(??????): Implementation of Game of Life with some modifications by yourself (states, rules, ...), create your drive for deliveries and put it here.
(??????): My first model of a phenomena using Game of Life and some modified rules
(??????): (a) Implementation of Koch curve to calculate its perimeter and its similarity dimension (extra bonus); (b) Implementation of my Model with solving the ODEs (or other model) (MATHEMATICA or MATLAB or Python or ...).
(??????): Writting projects using Latex, try to use https://pt.sharelatex.com/ :-) (4-6 pages with Introduction (area of modeling), Model, Analysis, Considerations)
(??????): (1) Implementation with Automata and (ODEs?); (2) a Model analysis and parameter analysis; (3) your project (written).