30 Jun - 5 Jul 2010
Preliminary Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal June 30 to July 5 2010 http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CiE 2010 is the sixth in a successful series of conferences organised by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings took place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), and Heidelberg (2009). Please mark the conference dates in your agendas for 2010. CONFIRMED TUTORIALS: Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory). CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Seth Lloyd, Denis Hirschfeldt, Ronald de Wolf, Jose L. Balczar, Eric Allender, Toniann Pitassi, and Sara Negri. SPECIAL SESSIONS on Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira Computational Complexity, organizers: Alan Selman, Elvira Mayordomo Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: N.N. Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, N.N. Formal systems, attendant proofs, and the possibility of their computer generation and manipulation (for instance, into programs) have been changing a whole spectrum of disciplines. The conference will address not only the more established lines of research of Computational Complexity and the interplay between Proof Theory and Computation, but also novel views that rely on physical and biological processes and models to find new ways of tackling computations and improving their efficiency. Also, information systems like the Web are a recent subject of attention in view of the fact that managing such complex and evolving systems pose particular problems. In all cases we are looking for fundamental and theoretical submissions. In line with other conferences in this series, CiE2010 has a broad scope and provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and practical issues in Computation with an emphasis on new paradigms of computation and the development of their mathematical theory. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female researchers, and also a small number of grants for female researchers, covering their registration fees. Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of: Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg), Luis Antunes (Porto), Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Paola Bonizzoni (Milano), Alessandra Carbone (Paris), Steve Cook (Toronto ON), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Erzsbet Csuhaj-Varj (Budapest), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon, co-chair), Nicola Galesi (Rome), Lus Mendes Gomes (Ponta Delgada), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Michael Kaminski (Haifa), Jarkko Kari (Turku), Viv Kendon (Leeds), James Ladyman (Bristol), Kamal Lodaya (Chennai), Giuseppe Longo (Paris), Benedikt Lwe (Amsterdam), Elvira Mayordomo Cmara (Zaragoza, co-chair), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg), Russell Miller (New York NY), Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Joo Rasga (Lisbon), Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt), Alan Selman (Buffalo NY), Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam), Albert Visser (Utrecht) In a Call for Papers to be sent out this month, the PC will invite all researchers in the area of the conference to submit their papers for presentation at CiE 2010. The best of the accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer, which will be available at the conference.