COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010 - Second call for papers

[Elvira Mayordomo]

Second call for papers

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            COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes
               Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal
                   June 30 to July 4, 2010
                  http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/

            Deadline for submissions: 20 JANUARY 2010
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Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference
dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research.

CiE 2010 in the Azores is the sixth conference of the Series, held in a
geographically unique and dramatic location, Europe's most Westerly
outpost. The theme of CiE 2010 - "Programs, Proofs, Processes" - points
to the usual CiE synergy of Computer Science, Mathematics and Logic,
with important computability-theoretic connections to science and the
real universe.

TUTORIALS: Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics),
Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory).

INVITED SPEAKERS: Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser,
Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald
de Wolf.

SPECIAL SESSIONS on:

Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan
Invited speakers: Giancarlo Mauri, Natasha Jonoska, Stephane Vialette,
Yasubumi Sakakibara

Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman
Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock,
Rahul Santhanam

Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude
Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert

Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira
Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, Lutz
Strassburger

Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt
Loewe, Guglielmo Tamburrini
Confirmed speakers: Volker Peckhaus, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman

Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, Thomas Erlebach
Confirmed speaker: Debora Donato

SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MARIAN POUR-EL: Ning Zhong.

CiE serves as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of
computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the
interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in computer
science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics,
philosophy, or physics.

Formal systems, attendant proofs, and the possibility of their computer
generation and manipulation (for instance, into programs) have been
changing a whole spectrum of disciplines. The conference will address
not only the more established lines of research of Computational
Complexity and the interplay between Proofs and Computation, but also
novel views that rely on physical and biological processes and models to
find new ways of tackling computations and improving their efficiency.

We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts
of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in
mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions
by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE
conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female
researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow
us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female
researchers, and also a small number of grants for junior female
researchers (see below).

The dates around the submission process are as follows:

Submission Deadline: 20 January 2010
Notification to Authors: 18 March 2010
Deadline for Final Version: 8 April 2010

CiE 2010 conference topics include, but not exclusively:

* Admissible sets
* Analog computation
* Artificial intelligence
* Automata theory
* Classical computability and degree structures
* Computability theoretic aspects of programs
* Computable analysis and real computation
* Computable structures and models
* Computational and proof complexity
* Computational complexity
* Computational learning and complexity
* Concurrency and distributed computation
* Constructive mathematics
* Cryptographic complexity
* Decidability of theories
* Derandomization
* Domain theory and computability
* Dynamical systems and computational models
* Effective descriptive set theory
* Finite model theory
* Formal aspects of program analysis
* Formal methods
* Foundations of computer science
* Games
* Generalized recursion theory
* History of Computing
* Hybrid systems
* Higher type computability
* Hypercomputational models
* Infinite time Turing machines
* Kolmogorov complexity
* Lambda and combinatory calculi
* L-systems and membrane computation
* Mathematical models of emergence
* Molecular computation
* Natural computing
* Neural nets and connectionist models
* Philosophy of science and computation
* Physics and computability
* Probabilistic systems
* Process algebra
* Programming language semantics
* Proof mining
* Proof theory and computability
* Quantum computing and complexity
* Randomness
* Reducibilities and relative computation
* Relativistic computation
* Reverse mathematics
* Swarm intelligence
* Type systems and type theory
* Uncertain reasoning
* Weak arithmetics and applications

Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of:

Klaus Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg), Luis Antunes (Porto), Arnold Beckmann
(Swansea), Paola Bonizzoni (Milano), Alessandra Carbone (Paris), Steve
Cook (Toronto ON), Barry Cooper (Leeds), Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju
(Budapest), Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon, co-chair), Nicola Galesi (Rome),
Luis Mendes Gomes (Ponta Delgada), Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht), Achim Jung
(Birmingham), Michael Kaminski (Haifa), Jarkko Kari (Turku), Viv Kendon
(Leeds), James Ladyman (Bristol), Kamal Lodaya (Chennai), Giuseppe Longo
(Paris), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza,
co-chair), Wolfgang Merkle (Heidelberg), Russell Miller (New York NY),
Dag Normann (Oslo), Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon), Joao Rasga (Lisbon), Nicole
Schweikardt (Frankfurt), Alan Selman (Buffalo NY), Peter van Emde Boas
(Amsterdam), Albert Visser (Utrecht)

The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers in the area of
the conference to submit their papers (in PDF-format, at most 10 pages)
for presentation at CiE 2010.

The best of the accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
of Springer, which will be available at the conference. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference.
Submitted papers must describe work not previously published, and they
must neither be accepted nor under review at a journal or at another
conference with refereed proceedings.

All papers need to be prepared in LNCS-style LaTeX. Papers must not
exceed 10 pages. Full proofs may appear in a technical appendix which
will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Submissions authored or
co-authored by members of the Programme Committee are not allowed.

Papers that have only student authors are eligible for the "CiE 2010
Best Student Paper Award." If your submission satisfies the
requirements, please submit your paper in the category "Regular paper
(eligible for Best Student Paper Award)." The Programme Committee will
select the best submission among these after acceptance. The recipient
of the Best Student Paper Award will get a fee waiver of the
registration fee, a certificate, and a small symbolic cash prize.

Funded by the Elsevier Foundation's programme 'Women in Computability'
we shall offer five travel grants (covering registration fee and up to 300
EUR in reimbursement for travel and accomodation expenses) for junior
female researchers. More information will become available in March 2010.

Funded by the Elsevier journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (APAL),
the organizers are offering a number of travel grants (including fee
waivers and a modest reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses)
for students to attend CiE 2010. Student authors of accepted papers will
have priority for these grants.

The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) sponsors modest student member
travel grants. See http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html

New funding opportunities are expected to be offered. For more details
concerning funding and up to date information, please consult regularly
the web page of the conference http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/