Gregory Chaitin-in-Ontario, Mathematics, Biology and Metabiology
Date | Friday September 18 2009 |
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Time | 14:30 - 16:30 |
Location | The University of Western Ontario MC105b |
Contact | Ilias Kotsireas, ikotsire@wlu.ca |
URL | http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Research/Colloquium/sep18_09.shtml |
Gregory Chaitin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, is the discoverer of the remarkable Omega number. His work on algorithmic information develops an idea in Leibniz’s “Discours de metaphysique” (1686), and has focused on randomness, on the limits of formal axiomatic reasoning, and, more recently, on metabiology. http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~chaitin. |