ROBIN GANDY centenary colloquium: final announcement

ROBIN GANDY centenary colloquium: final announcement

[Samson Abramsky]

ROBIN GANDY CENTENARY COLLOQUIUM 
Saturday 22 February 2020

There will be a one-day Colloquium at Wolfson College Oxford. This event celebrates the centenary of Robin Gandy, a leading figure in Mathematical Logic, student and close friend of Alan Turing, Oxford University Reader in Mathematical Logic and a Fellow of Wolfson College. It will be a full day meeting with an outstanding set of speakers, including four of Gandy's former students, and ranging across topics in mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, and computer science, as well as personal reflections and historical perspectives.

Speakers

Andrew Hodges (Oxford)    "In search of lost time: Robin Gandy and Alan Turing”
Martin Hyland (Cambridge) "Robin Gandy's Intellectual Style"
Jeff Paris (Manchester).      "The Pure Inductive Logic Program, and some memories of Robin"
Göran Sundholm (Leiden)   "The Proof Theory of Robin Gandy"
Christine Tasson (Paris).     "The Full Abstraction problem: 40 years of research"
Philip Welch (Bristol).          "The Spector-Gandy theorem and its descendants: a commentary"
Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Munich) "Computability in principle and in practice: Robin Gandy's Philosophy of Mathematics”
Dana Scott (Berkeley)         Video presentation: “Remembering Robin"

For details of the event, see the web page at

https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/gandy-colloquium-0 <https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/gandy-colloquium-0>

Registration is required. This can be done at

https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/computer-science/events/gandy-colloquium <https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/computer-science/events/gandy-colloquium>

The registration includes refreshment breaks, a buffet lunch and a drinks reception.

The event is free to Wolfson members. For others the registration fee is £30. 
There is also the option to register for the conference dinner. This is £35 without wine, £45 including wine.
The deadline for registration is February 10th.

Organizing Committee: Samson Abramsky (Chair), Daniel Isaacson, Jonathan Pila, and Alex Wilkie.

For enquiries, contact Karen Barnes:
  karen.barnes@cs.ox.ac.uk <mailto:karen.barnes@cs.ox.ac.uk>

This event is made possible by support from Wolfson College, the Oxford University Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy, and the British Logic Colloquium.
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