LINGUIST List 22.2619
Thu Jun 23 2011
FYI: Turing Centenary Research Competition
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Turing Centenary Research Competition
Message 1: Turing Centenary Research Competition
Date: 23-Jun-2011
From: S. Barry Cooper <pmt6sbcleeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Turing Centenary Research Competition
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The Turing Centenary Research Project:Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics
Research Fellowship and Scholar Competitionhttp://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408Submission deadline - December 16, 2011
More than any other figure, Turing has left a coherent scientific agendarelated to many of the 'Big Questions' concerning the relationship betweenthe human mind, mechanism in nature, and the mathematics required toclarify and answer these questions. The very breadth and fundamental natureof Turing's impact makes the centenary celebration a hugely opportuneperiod in which to reassert the role of basic thinking in relation to deepand intractable problems facing science.
'The Turing Centenary Research Project - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics',supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation, arises fromthe above-mentioned scientific agenda, and is aimed at researchers stillwithin ten years of receiving their Ph.D. The participants in the researchproject will be the winners of the 'Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics'competition, designed to provide significant funding support for eightyoung researchers. Five of the winners will become JTF 'Turing ResearchFellows' with an award of £75,000 each; and awards of £45,000 will be forJTF 'Turing Research Scholars' in the 16 to 25 age-group.
The competition is organised in conjunction with the Turing CentenaryCelebration, to be held June 22-25, 2012, at the Manchester City Hall andthe University of Manchester. The award winners will be duly honoured onthe June 23, 2012 centenary of Turing's birth.
Further details:
Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks and Sir Roger Penrose
Submission deadline - December 16, 2011Award Notification - March 31, 2012Award Ceremony - Turing Centenary Day, June 23, 2012Commencement of the research project - July 1, 2012
Proposals will be judged relative to four research themes:
Chair of the Judges: S Barry Cooper (Leeds)
The Judges for Research Theme 1 (The Mathematics of Emergence: TheMysteries of Morphogenesis):Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/Santa Fe)Cris Moore (New Mexico/Santa Fe)
The Judges for Research Theme 2 (Possibility of Building a Brain:Intelligent Machines, Practice and Theory):Luciano Floridi (Oxford/Hertfordshire)Barbara Grosz (Harvard)Aaron Sloman (Birmingham)
The Judges for Research Theme 3 (Nature of Information: Complexity,Randomness, Hiddenness of Information):Eric Allender (Rutgers)Rodney Downey (Wellington)Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur)
The Judges for Research Theme 4 (How should we compute? New Models of Logicand Computation):Samson Abramsky (Oxford)Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh)Robert I. Soare (Chicago)
Proposals should be made via the EasyChair submission page at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turingresearch2012
For further details, see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408
ALAN TURING YEARhttp://www.turingcentenary.eu
Prof S Barry CooperSchool of MathematicsUniversity of LeedsLeeds LS2 9JTU.K.
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