Monday 11 June 2012

Alan Turing Centenary: June 2012 events

Courtesy of Professor S. Barry Cooper (Turing Centenary Committee Chair) International events commemorating Alan Turing:


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Detailed listing of events

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* June 11-13, 2012: International Mathematica Symposium 2012 (IMS2012),

University College London, with speaker Dr. Andrew Hodges (Turing's biographer)

http://web.me.com/profwilliamshaw1/ims2012announce1/IMS2012.html



* June 12, 2012: Lecture by Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing: the Power of

Mathematical Discovery in Manchester

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/PublicEvents/hodges_lecture.php



* June 12-15, 2012: The Isaac Newton Institute Satellite Workshop on THE

INCOMPUTABLE, at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley

Hall (this already full)

http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/inc/



* June 13-16, 2012: The 12th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in

Rome, including June 14-16, 2012: Popularize Artificial Intelligence

(PAI-2012)

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/%7Eaiia12/



* June 13-30, 2012: An 2012 Alan Turing Centenary Commemorative

Exhibition in Hong Kong

http://www.hkac.org.hk/en/calendar.php?id=781



* June 14, 2012: Software Craftsmanship 2012 at Bletchley Park

http://www.codemanship.co.uk/softwarecraftsmanship/



* June 14 - October 6, 2012: Exhibition Turings Erfenis at CWI in

Amsterdam

http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/exhibition-turings-erfenis-at-centrum-wiskunde-informatica-opens-it-doors



* June 15-16, 2012: The ACM A. M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San

Francisco

http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=home



* June 15-16, 2012: ACE 2012 - Alan Turing's SURPRISE 100th Birthday Party

at King's College Cambridge  - contact Professor Jack Copeland here

https://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/



* June 16, 2012: Reflections on Alan Turing's Life (1912-1954). 6pm at

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/Turing/



* June 17, 2012: All Turing Year supporters are invited to join members of

Ely Runners for a Training Run near Cambridge

http://www.elyrunners.co.uk/



* June 17, 2012: The 8th International Workshop on Developments in

Computational Model, DCM 2012 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/



* June 21, 2012 to June, 2013: Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and

Legacy, at the Science Museum in London

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx



* June 22, 2012: A Seattle Concert and Installation in Honor of Alan

Turing , as part of the Wayward Music Series

http://synthesist.net/music/2012/03/a-seattle-concert-and-installation-in-honor-of-alan-turing/



* June 22-23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Bangalore - The State of Computing:

Alan Turing Birth Centenary Conference in Bangalore, India

https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenarybangalore/



* June 22 - December, 2012: As part of the Brazilian Alan Turing Year: A

Special Lecture Series celebrating the Alan Turing Year, at the Federal

University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

http://www.ufrgs.br/alanturingbrasil2012/eng/



* June 23, 2012: Manchester Walks - Alan Turing Centenary Tribute Walk

http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/science/alan-turing-tortured-genius-of-the-computer-age-2/



* June 23, 2012: UK Premiere of experimental film The Creator by

internationally-reknown artists Al & Al, 6:30pm at The Cornerhouse in

Manchester

http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-events/filmmakers-qa-al-al-the-creator



* June 23, 2012: Reading University's TURING100 at BLETCHLEY PARK is a one-day family event

open to members of the public visiting on the historic day, for information see here and:

http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm



* June 23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Symposium, as part of the fifth North

American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI 2012)

http://nasslli2012.com/turing



* June 23, 2012: A Dorkboat up the Thames linked to Turing's Birthday

(sold out)

http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/Dorkboat12



* June 23-24, 2012: TURING'S WORLDS, at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square,

Oxford - Turing centenary related BSHM/OUDCE Annual Residential Meeting

http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=G100-20



* June 23-24, 2012 : One-Day Seminar on: "Computability, Complexity and

the Digital Era" to coincide with the Centenary of Alan Turing, Kolkata, India

http://indiatechonline.com/viewimage.php?id=378



* June 23-26, 2012: Alan Turing Centenary and Theory of Computation Summer

School 2012 (CCA 2012), in Daejeon, South Korea

http://open.nims.re.kr/new/event/event.php?workType=home&Idx=78



* June 24-27, 2012: Ninth International Conference on Computability and

Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), in Cambridge

http://cca-net.de/cca2012/



* June 25-28, 2012: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in

Computer Science (LICS 2012) at the University of Dubrovnik

http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12/



* June 26-29, 2012: IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2012

(CCC'12), in Porto, Portugal

http://computationalcomplexity.org/



* June 26 - July 1, 2012: IJCAR 2012 - The 6th International Joint

Conference on Automated Reasoning, in Manchester

http://ijcar.cs.manchester.ac.uk/



*June 28-29, 2012: Simposio Turing 2012, a two day event held at the

Department of Computer Science, CINVESTAV, Mexico

http://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/SimposioTuring2012



* June 29 - July 11, 2012: Summer School in Cognitive Sciences 2012 -

Evolution and Function of Consciousness, in Montreal, Canada

http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php



* June 30, 2012: The Turing Education Day (TED) at Bletchley Park,

incorporating the Alan Turing Memorial Lecture 2012

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/resources/file.rhtm/662542/ted+programme+-+low+res.pdf



"... this extraordinary programme of events - it is a unique opportunity, and will  leave Turing's legacy both more developed, and more broadly understood and appreciated" (Professor Cooper, Chair of Alan Turing Year )



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