15-18 Jun 2015 Heidelberg (Germany)

Welcome!

Varieties of Algorithmic Information is a conference organized as part of the project, "Structure and Randomness in the Theory of Computation."  This project is being carried out by Laurent Bienvenu of Université Paris 7 and Christopher Porter of the University of Florida and is funded by the John Templeton Foundation.  

The meeting will be held June 15-18, 2015 at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum in Heidelberg, Germany.

Theme of the conference

The notion of algorithmic information is referred to throughout work in computability theory, algorithmic randomness, and related areas. However, in many cases, this notion of algorithmic information is used both informally and in a number of different senses. The goal of Varieties of Algorithmic Information is to clarify the various notions of algorithmic information as they appear in computability-theoretic investigations, to ascertain the similarities and differences between them, and to foster interaction between mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers with interest in the topic.

Topics

The main topics of the meeting are:

  • Algorithmic information theory and randomness
  • Turing computability (degrees, reductions)
  • Computable analysis, computable algebra
  • Reverse mathematics and proof theory
  • Computable structure theory
  • Infinitary models of computation (ordinal-time computation, computation over orders, etc)
  • Computability and definability in set theory

Invited speakers

  • Vasco Brattka (Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich)
  • Walter Dean (University of Warwick)
  • Jan Reimann (Penn State University)
  • Nikolay Vereshchagin (Moscow State University)

Registration/Abstract Submission/Contact

Registration is free but mandatory. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers (Laurent Bienvenu, Christopher Porter, Wolfgang Merkle) at

vai [at] computability.fr

or 

cp [at] cpporter.com

To submit an abstract, please click on "Submission" under the main menu (on the left-hand column), enter your registration information, and then you can upload your abstract.

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