Description
The John von Neumann Society is pleased to invite you to the next event of the von Neumann 120 commemorative year.
The main Patron of the conference is Tamás Freund, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Programme
09.30 a.m.
Inaugurals
- Opening Address by Péter László Kollár, Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
- Greeting by Balázs Hankó, State Secretary of Ministry for Culture and Innovation
- Greeting by Marina von Neumann Whitman — video, 5 minutes
- Greeting by Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Past Director, Princeton
- György Beck, Chairman of the Jon von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT): About the von Neumann 120 commemorative year by NJSZT
Miklós Rédei, London School of Economy: John von Neumann’s work
10.45 a.m. Coffee Break
11.00 a.m.
Abraham Neyman, Neumann Laurate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Stochastic Games
Domokos Szász, member of the HAS: Neumann’s ergodic theorem: a small step for a genius, a giant leap for science
Sándor Imre, member of HAS: Quantum informatics
01.15 p.m. Lunch break — sandwich lunch
02.00 p.m.
David Alan Grier: writer, author, Elliott School, Washington, DC: Neumann story
Peter J. Denning, Naval Postgraduate School Computer Science, Monterey, CA, USA: Computational Thinking
Jim Keller, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia, IEEE CIS President: Computational Intelligence
04.15. p.m. Closing
The conference language is English, no interpretation will be provided.
Due to the limited number of seats, we are unable to accept more registrations for the attendance.
However, due to the great interest, we will also make the event available online, for which registration can be accessed here: https://njszt.hu/form/mta-2023-konf-reg-online