9 January 2012
Cambridge, U.K.
Public opening of the SAS programme (Spitalfields Day) "The Mathematical
Legacy of Alan Turing"
9th January 2012
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw05.html
On the 9th January 2012, the programme "Semantics & Syntax" will be
officially opened. In addition to being the official opening of the
programme, this event will provide the general mathematical public (with
strong emphasis on postgraduate students) a glimpse of the current state
of the art and explain what is going to happen during the six months at
Cambridge.
The day is one of the Spitalfields Days of the London Mathematical
Society, named in honour of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society, a
precursor of the London Mathematical Society which flourished from 1717 to
1845. Spitalfields Days provide survey lectures aimed at a general
mathematical audience.
With four survey lectures of leading experts of the field, we shall allow
everyone who is planning to be engaged with the programme to glimpse of
the relevance and the importance of the involved fields. We shall also
offer postgraduate students the opportunity of collecting information
about how they can get involved with the programme as workshop
participants or junior fellow.
We invite interested researchers and postgraduate students from all
institutions in the UK to come and listen to the tutorials.
The speakers are:
Dr George Barmpalias (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China): Measures
of relative complexity
Professor Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, UK): On Syntactic and
Semantic Complexity Classes
Professor Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK) on modern
cryptography
Professor Hugh Woodin (UC Berkeley, USA) on Slaman-Woodin conjecture
and structure of the Turing degrees
Anyone interested is welcome to attend; talks will be aimed at a general
mathematical audience. Please let the Programme and Visitor Officer at the
Institute know if you intend to come by emailing the Programme and Visitor
Officer at programmes@newton.ac.uk.
There will be no accommodation available from the Institute, therefore
participants are encouraged to make their own arrangments. Our suggested
accommodation listing can be found here.
The London Mathematical Society supports the Spitalfields Day by providing
a limited number of modest travel grants (100) for postgraduate students.
If you wish to apply for such a grant, please contact the organizer at
bloewe@science.uva.nl by 15 December 2011.