Ada Lovelace Bicentenary Lectures on Computability

A series of lectures to be held at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, sponsored by the IIAS and by the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine. Lecturers in December include: Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (20 December); David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science (21 December); Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research (22 December); Moshe Vardi, Rice University (23 December); Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (31 December). These December lectures begin at 11am in the IIAS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem.

January 2016 lecturers: Aviezri Fraenkel, Weizmann Institute of Science (18 January); Doron Swade, University of London (18 January); Jo Francis & John Fuegi, Flare Productions & University of Maryland (18, 19 January); Michael Rabin, Harvard University (19 January); Moshe Vardi, Rice University (19 January); Susan Stepney, University of York (20 January); Shafi Goldwasser, MIT (20 January); Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham  (21 January); Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University (25 January); Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton (25 January); Radia Perlman, EMC Corporation (28 January); Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University (31 January)

The organisers are  Jack Copeland, Eli Dresner, and Diane Proudfoot. For more information email diane.proudfoot@canterbury.ac.nz  or see http://www.as.huji.ac.il/adalovelacelectures.