Adrian German has posted a call for papers for the 2008 Midwest NKS, on the NKS Forum.
Here are this year’s topics of interest:
Topics of interest for submissions include (but are not limited to):
- Pure NKS projects
- The physics of computation
- Computational physics
- Foundations of computation
- Universality and Irreducibility
- Classical (digital) and quantum computation
- Algorithmic information theory
Keynote speakers and round-table moderators:
Confirmed keynote speakers:
———————————–Charles Bennett (IBM Research, via videoconference TO BE CONFIRMED)
William Bialek (Princeton University)
Cristian Calude (University of Auckland)
Gregory Chaitin (IBM Research)
Martin Davis (New York University/University of California, Berkeley)
David Deutsch (Oxford University, via videoconference)
Edward Fredkin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tony Leggett (University of Illinois)
Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)
Leonid Levin (Boston University TO BE CONFIRMED)Round table moderators
———————————–James Gleick (author of Chaos, Genius and Isaac Newton)
Gerardo Ortiz (Indiana University Bloomington)
Hector Zenil (Univ. of Paris 1 and Univ of Lille 1)
Colin Bruce (Oxford, author of Schroedinger’s Rabbits
Title and short abstracts are due by August 25, 2008. The conference runs October 31, 2008 – November 2, 2008.
