[FOM] FW: CCA 2006, First Call for Papers

[Kreinovich, Vladik]

 Forwwarding. Vladik

-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Weihrauch

                          First Call for Papers

                                CCA 2006

                     Third International Conference
                                   on
                  COMPUTABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN ANALYSIS


                           October 25-29, 2006,
                         Gainesville, Florida, USA

                         http://cca-net.de/cca2006/

                                 DATES
               Submission deadline:   July 2, 2006
               Notification:          August 1, 2006
               Camera-ready version:  September 1, 2006
               Tutorials:             October 25-26, 2006
               Main conference:       October 27-29, 2006


                               SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit
a PostScript or PDF version of a paper to

                    cca-submission at FernUni-Hagen.de


                                  SCOPE
The conference is concerned with the theory of computability and
complexity over real-valued data. Computability and complexity theory
are two central areas of research in mathematical logic and theoretical
computer science.
Computability theory is the study of the limitations and abilities of
computers in principle. Computational complexity theory provides a
framework for understanding the cost of solving computational problems,
as measured by the requirement for resources such as time and space. The
classical approach in these areas is to consider algorithms as operating
on finite strings of symbols from a finite alphabet. Such strings may
represent various discrete objects such as integers or algebraic
expressions, but cannot represent general real or complex numbers,
unless they are rounded.

Most mathematical models in physics and engineering, however, are based
on the real number concept. Thus, a computability theory and a
complexity theory over the real numbers and over more general continuous
data structures is needed. Unlike the well established classical theory
over discrete structures, the theory of computation over continuous data
is still in early stages of development, despite remarkable progress in
recent years. Many important fundamental problems have not yet been
studied, and presumably numerous unexpected and surprising results are
waiting to be detected. Scientists working in the area of computation on
real-valued data come from different fields, such as theoretical
computer science, domain theory, logic, constructive mathematics,
computer arithmetic, numerical mathematics and all branches of analysis.
The conference provides a unique opportunity for people from such
diverse areas to meet and exchange ideas and knowledge. The topics of
interest include foundational work on various models and approaches for
describing computability and complexity over the real numbers. They also
include complexity-theoretic investigations, both foundational and with
respect to concrete problems, and new implementations of exact real
arithmetic, as well as further developments of already existing software
packages. We hope to gain new insights into computability-theoretic
aspects of various computational questions from physics and from other
fields involving computations over the real numbers.

For this year's meeting, there will be a particular focus on effectively
closed sets and on algorithmic randomness. CCA 2006 is part of the
          Special Year in Logic at the University of Florida.
                http://www.math.ufl.edu/~jal/logicyear/


                     SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
     * Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
     * Arthur Chou (Worcester, USA)
     * Rod Downey (Wellington, New Zealand)
     * Abbas Edalat (London, UK)
     * Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago, USA)
     * Iraj Kalantari (Macomb, USA)
     * Hiroyasu Kamo (Nara, Japan)
     * Joseph S. Miller (Storrs, USA)
     * Anil Nerode (Ithaca, USA)
     * Jeff Remmel (San Diego, USA)
     * Robert Rettinger (Hagen, Germany)
     * Klaus Weihrauch, chair (Hagen, Germany)


                        ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
     * Paul Brodhead (Gainesville, USA),
     * Douglas Cenzer, chair (Gainesville, USA), cenzer at ufl.edu
     * Rick Smith (Gainesville, USA)

                          INVITED SPEAKERS
     * Rod Downey (Wellington, New Zealand)
     * Edward Griffor (Michigan, USA)
     * Anil Nerode (Ithaca, USA)
     * Ker-I Ko (Stony Brook, USA)

                             TUTORIALS
     * Denis Hirschfeldt (Algorithmic Randomness)
     * Rebecca Weber & Stephen Simpson (Effectively Closed Sets)
     * Vasco Brattka (Computable Analysis)

                            PROCEEDINGS
A technical report including the accepted papers will be distributed at
the conference. It is planned to publish a special issue of a journal
dedicated to the conference. After the conference, the participants will
be invited to submit their papers for publication in this special issue.
The papers will be subject to the usual refereeing process of the
journal.

                         FURTHER INFORMATION
     * Klaus Weihrauch: Klaus.Weihrauch at FernUni-Hagen.de or
     * Douglas Cenzer: cenzer at ufl.edu.
                     http://cca-net.de/cca2006/

                        CCA STEERING COMMITTEE Vasco Brattka (Cape Town,
South Africa), Peter Hertling (Munich, Germany), Ker-I Ko (Stony Brook,
USA), Klaus Weihrauch, chair (Hagen, Germany), Ning Zhong (Cincinnati,
USA)