3 Turing Junior-Fellowships
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Inserito il 30/11/2011
*** Five Turing Research Fellowships for researchers no more than 10 years
from the award of a PhD relevant to their proposed research, value 75,000
UK pounds each, and
*** Three Turing Scholarships for gifted younger researchers of age up to
25 years old, value 45,000 UK pounds each
over the three years. Each Award may be held at a location of the
winner's choice, and may be held as a valuable supplement to other
funding.
For further details of eligibility etc, please see the How to Apply
webpage at the Alan Turing Year website:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?409
The Research Project will address a number of major questions related to
the Turing legacy, and are listed at the Turing Centenary Research Project
webpage:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408
under four main headings:
1. The Mathematics of Emergence: The Mysteries of Morphogenesis
2. Possibility of Building a Brain: Intelligent Machines, Practice and
Theory
3. Nature of Information: Complexity, Randomness, Hiddenness of
Information
4. How should we compute? New Models of Logic and Computation.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline December 16, 2011
Award Notification March 31, 2012
Award Ceremony Turing Centenary day, June 23, 2012
Commencement of the research project July 1, 2012
Completion of the research project June 30, 2015
Winners will be expected to attend the award ceremony at the Turing
Centenary Conference in Manchester, 22 - 25 June, 2012.
The members of the Competition Judging Panel are:
Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur)
Eric Allender (Rutgers)
Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Rodney Downey (Wellington)
Luciano Floridi (Oxford/Hertfordshire)
Barbara Grosz (Harvard)
Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/Santa Fe)
Cris Moore (New Mexico/Santa Fe)
Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh)
Aaron Sloman (Birmingham)
Robert I. Soare (Chicago)
The Judging Panel is Chaired by S. Barry Cooper (Leeds)
