[FOM] [CiE] Newsletter No.25, January 3, 2010

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CiE Newsletter No.25, January 3, 2010

A very Happy New Year to all CiE members! and a 
reminder that the January 20th deadline for 
submission to CiE 2010 in the Azores is fast 
approaching. The final Call for papers is expected soon.

CiE is already shaping up to be a remarkable 
event, even by CiE standards -  for up-to-date details, go to:

                      http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/


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CONTENTS:

1. Still time to submit to TQC 2010 Conference (13-15 April 2010, Leeds, UK)

2. Obituary: Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory

3. UC2010 Workshop on Hypercomputation and 
related topics, including quantum computation and digital physics

4. PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION 2010 --- CALL FOR PAPERS

5. BCTCS 2010: First Announcement

6. STACS - First Call for Participation

7. LAST CfP: PETRI NETS 2010, 31st International 
Conference on Application and Theory of Petri 
Nets and other Models of Concurrency

8. Interdisciplinary MSc in Logic 2010-2012 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam


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1. (from Viv Kendon) Still time to submit to TQC 
2010 Conference (13-15 April 2010, Leeds, UK):

Dear colleagues,

A brief reminder:

** Submission of papers and posters to TQC 2010 
closes on 4th January 2010, next Monday (23:59 local time)! **

Please refer to the website 
http://tqc2010.leeds.ac.uk for details.  We look 
forward to reviewing your submissions.

  Best wishes,
  Viv Kendon (local organising committee chair)
  Wim van Dam (programme committee chair)
  Simone Severini (programme committee co-chair)
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TQC 2010               tqc2010 at leeds.ac.uk
The fifth Conference on  Theory of Quantum
Computation, Communication, & Cryptography
University of Leeds   13th-15th April 2010
         http://tqc2010.leeds.ac.uk/


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2. (from Paul Vitanyi) Obituary Ray Solomonoff:

Obituary: Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory

Ray J. Solomonoff, founding father of Algorithmic 
Information Theory, died on December 7, 2009, of 
complications of a stroke caused by an aneurism 
in his head. Ray was the first inventor of 
Algorithmic Information Theory which deals with 
the shortest effective description length of 
objects and is commonly designated by the term ``Kolmogorov complexity.''

The latter notion was a side product of his 
approach to induction. His crucial results 
concerning prediction, in 1960 and later, 
partially resolve the old philosophical problem 
concerning how to obtain a valid prior 
distribution in Bayes's rule by showing that a 
single ``universal'' distribution can be used 
instead of any computable prior with almost the 
same resulting predictions. This may be viewed as 
a central problem of Artificial Intelligence, 
Machine Learning and Statistical Inference--with 
the caveat that the universal distribution is 
incomputable. Solomonoff's theory has led to 
feasible induction and prediction procedures.

Ray Solomonoff is survived by his wife, Grace 
Morton, 72 Winter Street, Arlington, MA 02474, 
and by his nephew, Alex Solomonoff, of Somerville.

An obituary outlining Solomonoff's contributions to science
together with biographical remarks is at

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/obituary.html


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3. (from Mike Stannett) UC2010 Workshop on Hypercomputation and related
topics, including quantum computation and digital physics:

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Co-located with the Unconventional Computation (UC) 2010 conference in Tokyo
(June 2010), there will be a Workshop on Hypercomputation and related
topics, including quantum computation and digital physics. Key dates
include:
  * submissions:    28 Feb 2010
  * notification:     31 Mar 2010
Accepted authors will be expected to attend the workshop.

Further details of UC2010 can be found online at
http://arn.local.frs.riken.jp/UC10/

Mike Stannett (m.stannett at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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4. (from Felix Costa) PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION 2010 --- CALL FOR PAPERS:

CALL FOR PAPERS
PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION 2010, P&C 2010
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P&C 2010
3rd International Workshop on PHYSICS AND COMPUTATION
On the Nile, Egypt
August 30 (embarkation) -- September 3 (desembarkation on September 5)

Submissions of 4-5 pages extented abstracts due: January 15
Notification: February 12
Full paper submission due: March 20

Early Registration: February 19 --- The charter will take a limited number
of 40 participants with some further space for people travelling together
(in the early registration step, participants will have to book their places
and pay $200 each to the Cruiser Company in Egypt, through the Conference
Webpage).

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WEB www.pc2010.uac.pt
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Original papers are solicited in all areas of Physics and Computation (and
related fields). Typical, but not exclusive, topics are:

- Analogue Computation
- Axiomatization of Physics: completeness, decidability, reduction
- Church-Turing thesis
- Computing beyong the Turing barrier
- Digital Physics
- Philosophy of Physics (and computation)
- Quantum computation (digital, analogue). Applications to Biology. Quantum
logics
- Reaction-diffusion models of computation: including Brain Dynamics, BZ
Computers
- Relativity: spacetimes, computation, time travel, speedup
- Theory of measurement: axiomatization, complexity

All researchers in the area of the Workshop are kindly invited to submit
their extended abstracts (4-5 pages) and / or papers (at most 12 pages)
electronically, via Easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc10 .

The submissions are expected to be in PDF format using the suitable class
files of Springer LNCS. Joint submissions to other conferences are not
permitted.

Each accepted paper must be presented at the Workshop.

Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

- Andrew ADAMATZKI, University of West England
- Selim AKL, Queen's University, Canada
- Hajnal ANDREKA, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
- Edwin BEGGS, University of Swansea
- Olivier BOURNEZ, Ecole Polytechnique
- Dan BROWNE, University College London
- Cristian CALUDE, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Arturo CARSETTI, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
- Barry COOPER, University of Leeds
- Bob COECKE, University of Oxford
- Jose Felix COSTA, Technical University of Lisbon
- Gilles DOWEK, Ecole Polytechnique and INRIA
- Walid GOMAA, University of Alexandria
- Viv KENDON, University of Leeds
- Carlos LOURENCO, University of Lisbon
- Judit MADARASZ, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
- Yasser OMAR, Technical University of Lisbon
- Sonja SMETS, University of Groningen , Netherlands
- Mike STANNETT, University of Sheffield
- Karl SVOZIL, Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitat Wien
- John V. TUCKER, University of Swansea
- Jiri WIEDERMANN, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Institute of
Computer Science
- Karoline WIESNER, University of Bristol
- Martin ZIEGLER, University of Paderborn, Germany

TUTORIALS:

- Hajnal ANDREKA, Gergely SZEKELY, Judit X. MADARASZ, Istvan NEMETI, and
Peter NEMETI: Axiomatization of Physics in a logical framework.
- Marco LANZAGORTA: Quantum computation: computability and complexity.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

- Salvador VENEGAS-ANDRACA (Quantum computation): Adiabatic quantum
computation and NP-completeness: quantum algorithms and massive simulation
in classical computer clouds.
- Arturo CARSETTI (Philosophy of Science): The emergence of meaning at the
co-evolutive level. An epistemological approach.
- John CASE (Learning Theory): Algorithmic Scientific Inference.
- Gilles DOWEK (CT Thesis): The physical Church thesis as an explanation of
the Galileo thesis.
- Thomas JENNEWEIN (Quantum Computation): Teleportation Experiments.
- Sonja SMETS (Quantum Logic): Quantum logics.
- Vlatko VEDRAL (Quantum computation): Can entanglement be considered a
genuine order parameter?

SPECIAL SESSION:

The wakening of the computer ; Which technological realizations make us
feel closer to the HAL 9000 Computer?

- Selmer BRINGSJORD
- David G. STORK

VENUE:

3rd International Workshop on Physics and Computation, P&C  2010
Egypt, August 30 -- September 3, Cruise downstream and upstream the Nile,
from Luxor (through Aswan) to Luxor. Arrival and departure airports: Luxor
or Cairo.

Registration fees: between $800 and $1200, plus the (optional) sightseeing
package of $145. Includes one (or half) a cabin (7 nights) on board and the
meals (but not drinks) for the 8 days cruise on the Nile.

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

Second International Workshop on Physics and Computation
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bournez/PC2009/i.php

First International Workshop on Physics and Computation
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/conferences/physicsandcomputation/pc08.html

POST--CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:

P&C 08: Two Issues of Applied Mathematics and Computation (Volume 215, Issue
4, October 15 , 2009 , Elsevier) and Natural Computing (Volume 8, Number 3 ,
September, 2009 , Springer) .
P&C 09: Proceedings will appear as a Bentham Book.
P&C 10: We are applying for a special Issue of Physica D .

STRUCTURE OF THE EVENT:

Our 5 days (Monday to Friday) Workshop 'Physics and Computation 2010'
comprises:
   7 Invited speakers (50 minutes each, 10 minutes for discussion);
   2 Tutorials (100 minutes each, 20 minutes for discussion);
14-16 Contributed papers (35 minutes each, 10 minutes for discussion);
   1 Special Session: Homage to Arthur C. Clarke 's 2010 , HAL 9000 New
Legacy (120 minutes). David G. Stork has done a respectable work with
respect to 2001 (http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/contents.html).

Social programme includes sightseeing (with visits to) the main
Archeological Stations, light lectures after dinner on Egyptology and the
reading of hieroglyphs.

STEERING COMMITTEE:
- Caslav BRUKNER
- Cristian CALUDE
- Gregory CHAITIN
- Jose Felix COSTA
- Istvan NEMETI

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:

- Cristian CALUDE
- Jose Felix COSTA
- Walid GOMAA
- Helia GUERRA
- Karl SVOZIL

CONTACT:

Walid GOMAA

Faculty of Engineering,
Alexandria University,
Alexandria, Egypt
Email: wgomaa at alex.edu.eg and walid.gomaa at loria.fr


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5. (from Julian Bradfield) BCTCS 2010: First Announcement:

Preliminary Announcement:
26th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS)


                         6th to 9th April 2010
                         University of Edinburgh
                         http://www.bctcs.ac.uk/BCTCS2010/

SCOPE

The purpose of the BCTCS is to provide a forum in which researchers in
theoretical computer science can meet, present research findings, and
discuss developments in the field. It also aims to provide an
environment in which PhD students can gain experience in presenting
their work, and benefit from contact with established researchers. The
conference will consist of invited keynote presentations by
distinguished researchers and a number of contributed talks.

LOCATION AND SCHEDULE

BCTCS 2010 will be held at the University of Edinburgh, in the centre
of Edinburgh. Talks will be at the Informatics Forum, and
accommodation will be in the Pollock Halls of Residence nearby.
Edinburgh is easily accessible by train from most of the U.K., and has
air connections to most UK and many European airports.

The event will start on Tuesday afternoon and will end with a lunch on
Friday.

INVITED SPEAKERS

BCTCS 2010 will include invited lectures by the following
distinguished speakers:

     * Erik Demaine (MIT)
     * Johan Hastad (KTH Stockholm)
     * Gil Kalai (HU Jerusalem)
     * Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg)
     * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA / École Polytechnique)
     * Ulrike Sattler (Manchester)

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

Participants at the colloquium are encouraged to present a contributed
talk. Please prepare an abstract using the LaTeX template and submit
at the abstract submission page. The abstracts of accepted contributed
talks will be published in the Bulletin of the European Association
for Theoretical Computer Science.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 February 2010.

STUDENT GRANTS

The BCTCS steering committee has obtained ongoing funding to support
the participation of upto 45 graduate students at BCTCS. The
grants cover registration including accomodation and meals, but
not travel. Students enrolled at UK higher education institutions may
apply for fellowships by filling the online application
form. Fellowships will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis
to those PhD students who submit an abstract and commit to presenting
a contributed talk (see above). Some fellowships may be available to
students not presenting contributed talks; decisions on these cases
will be taken in March 2010.

REGISTRATION

Registration will open in late January, when a Call for Participation
will be sent.

ORGANISATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION

The conference is being organised by Julian Bradfield and Mary Cryan
of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science,
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

More information about the meeting including updates are available
from the conference webpages at:

                 http://www.bctcs.ac.uk/BCTCS2010/

We hope to see you there!


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6. (from Jean-Yves Marion) STACS - First Call for Participation:

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27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer
Science

                    STACS 2010 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                   MARCH 4-6, 2010, NANCY, FRANCE

                       http://stacs.loria.fr/

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Warsaw University
Rolf Niedermeier, University of Jena
Jacques Stern, Ecole Normale Superieure

ACCEPTED PAPERS
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http://stacs.loria.fr/AcceptedPapers.html

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Markus Blaser, Saarland University
Harry Buhrman, CWI, University of Amsterdam
Thomas Colcombet, CNRS, Paris 7 University
Anuj Dawar, University of Cambridge
Arnaud Durand, Paris 7 University
Sandor Fekete, Braunschweig University of Technology
Ralf Klasing, CNRS, Bordeaux University
Christian Knauer, Freie Universität of Berlin
Piotr Krysta, University of Liverpool
Sylvain Lombardy, Marne la Vallée University
Parthasarathy Madhusudan, University of Illinois
Jean-Yves Marion, Nancy University (co-chair)
Pierre McKenzie, Université de Montréal
Rasmus Pagh, IT University of Copenhagen
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Christophe Paul, CNRS, Montpellier University
Georg Schnitger, Frankfurt University
Thomas Schwentick, TU Dortmund University (co-chair)
Helmut Seidl, TU Munich
Jiri Sgall, Charles University
Sebastiano Vigna, Università degli Studi di Milano
Paul Vitanyi, CWI, Amsterdam

CONTACT : stacs at loria.fr
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7. (from Joao Paolo Barros) LAST CfP: PETRI NETS 
2010, 31st International Conference on 
Application and Theory of Petri Nets and other Models of Concurrency:

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

PETRI NETS 2010
31st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
and other Models of Concurrency

June 21-25, 2010
Braga, Portugal

Web: http://petrinets2010.di.uminho.pt/
Email : petrinets2010[@]di[.]uminho[.]pt

Collocated with ACSD 2010: 10th International Conference on
Application of Concurrency to System Design
(http://acsd2010.di.uminho.pt)
Common page at http://acsd-petrinets2010.di.uminho.pt

The call for papers is available at
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/meetings/pn2010/

INVITED SPEAKERS

In 2010, the PETRI NETS and the ACSD conferences will feature five
keynote speakers of international reputation:
- David Harel (Distinguished Carl Adam Petri Lecture)
- Kim Guldstrand Larsen
- Gabriel Juhas
- Maciej Koutny
- Lars M. Kristensen

More information is available at
http://acsd-petrinets2010.di.uminho.pt/?page=InvitedSpeakers

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

The workshops below have been accepted for PETRI NETS / ACSD 2010.
All workshops will take place on June 21 and/or June 22.

- Abstractions for Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (APNOC)
Organizers: Alexander Serebrenik and Natalia Sidorova.

- Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE)
Organizers: Michael Duvigneau and Daniel Moldt.

- Biological Processes & Petri Nets (BioPPN)
Organizers: Claudine Chaouiya and Monika Heiner.

- Scalable and Usable Model checking for petri nets and Other models of
concurrency (SUMo)
Organizers: D. Buchs, F. Kordon, Y. Thierry-Megg, J. Sproston

- Foundations of Interface Technologies (FIT2010)
Organizers: B. Caillaud and A. Legay

  - Applications of Region Theory (ART)
Organizers: Jorg Desel and Alex Yakovlev.


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8. (from Tanja Kassenaar) Interdisciplinary MSc 
in Logic 2010-2012 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam:

You want to study logic. You enjoy an interdisciplinary approach to
research. You like to meet people from all over the world, join the

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN LOGIC
http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic

in Amsterdam. The MSc in Logic is truly interdisciplinary, international
and individual:

(*) it combines mathematics, computer science, linguistics and
philosophy to give a broad view of logic,

(*) its students come from all continents and many different countries,

(*) and the course programme of each student is individually picked by
the student and his or her mentor under consideration of strengths,
weaknesses and interests of the student out of a total of over 40
courses.

The MSc in Logic covers the traditions of logic as well as the modern
view of logic as the study of encoding, transmission and comprehension
of information in natural, artificial and formal languages, providing a
wide range of applications in modern information society. Within two
years, the MSc leads to a highly respected research degree that opens
the doors to academic research at the highest level. Most of our
graduates continue to get a PhD in logic or a related field.

Interested students with a BSc or BA in a relevant field (for example,
mathematics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, but also others)
should apply. Candidates who took courses at the graduate (MSc or PhD)
level may apply for waivers and could finish the MSc in Logic in three
semesters or one year ("fast track").

There are some grant programmes that students can apply to: the national
HSP programme (Huygens Scholarship Programme) or the Amsterdam Merit
Scholarships for non-European students at the University of Amsterdam.

Deadlines for applications (for the academic year starting September 1,
2010) are:

January 8, 2010 if you wish to apply for the HSP scholarship

February 1, 2010 for non-European students

April 1, 2010 for students from EU countries

We accept applications after the deadline, but cannot guarantee student
housing and/or a timely visa application procedure in this case.

Are you interested? Find more information about us on
http://www.illc.uva.nl/MScLogic or contact

Ms Tanja Kassenaar
phone: +31 20 525 6051
email: gpil at science.uva.nl


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