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Alan Turing Centenary
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Workshop on Physics and
Computation
29-31 August 2012
The 5th International Workshop on Physics and Computation
is an interdisciplinary meeting on the frontiers of Mathematics,
Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and Biology.
Topics range from mathematical modelling and understanding systems
(physical, complex, interacting quantum or biological),
to the use of such systems to compute (like in analogue computation)
via the underlying massive developments in computability theory.
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Scientists, Science and Society: Lecture by John V
Tucker
Friday 30th October 2012
Prof
John V Tucker's talk is on the What can we compute? A history
of the Church-Turing Hypothesis
as part of
the Seminar on History of
Science and Technology of
the College of Science, and the
PCV seminar of
the Department of Computer Science.
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Distinguished Lecture by Martin
Campbell-Kelly
5pm, Wednesday 5th December 2012
Tea and Coffee will be available before the lecture,
which starts at 5:30pm
The talk will be followed by a reception. Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly's lecture is on Alan Turing’s Other Universal Machine: The ACE. More details... |
Swansea Science Cafe event
To Kill A
Machine
7:30pm, Wednesday 5th December 2012
Scriptography Productions presents a new
full-length play by
Catrin Fflur Huws about the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, whose
pioneering work considered whether a machine could think.
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Exhibition of the Alan Turing Posters
Wednesday 5th December 2012
The poster exhibition shows
Alan Turing as a person in his early and final years leading to his
tragic death, as well as his main contributions to science and society.
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website and contact: Arnold Beckmann | 2012-12-07 |