26 January 2010
Peter van Emde Boas’ Farewell Lecture
Posted by Rasmus Rendsvig under: Activities; Courses, seminars and special lectures; ILLC; Senior Researcher; Uncategorized .
| Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
Dr. P. van Emde Boas will officially leave University van Amsterdam. His farewell lecture will be on March 25, at 15.00 in the aula of the university (Singel 411). At the day of his farewell there is a colloquium in which several of the topics will be presented in which he was involved.
The programme is:
09.30-09.50 Coffee
10.00-10.45 Jiri Widermann: Extended Turing Machine Paradigm
10.45-11.15 Johan van Benthem: Computation, Conversation, and Celebration: paying my debts to Peter van Emde Boas
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.15 Jan van Leeuwen: On closer inspection – understanding complexity
12.15-12.45 Jan van Mill: Countable dense homogeneity
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.30 Kurt Mehlhorn: Certifying Algorithms
15.00 Afscheidcollege Peter van Emde Boas, Egghead betegelt badkamer
speeches, reception
You are cordially invited to attend the colloquium.
Participation at the lunch is free, but you are requested to announce this by email to t.m.v.janssen [at] uva.nl .
The farewell speech will be in ceremonial style; professors for other universities are invited to participate in the cortège and preferably bring their own toga.
If you would like to participate in a present, you may transmit it to giro 1689923 (of T.M.V. Janssen, Ermelo). The present will be a gift to the Universitair Asielfonds UAF (supporting the study of fugitives).
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