CFP (extended deadline): 9th International Workshop on Physics and Computation

[Michael Cuffaro]

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  * Call for Papers (extended deadline)
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  * 9th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (P&C 2018)
  * (A satellite workshop to Unconventional Computation & Natural
  * Computation 2018)
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  * IUT de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
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  * 25-29 June 2018
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  * https://easychair.org/cfp/pc2018
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Workshop Description:
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The 9th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (P&C 2018) 
will be held as a satellite workshop of the 17th International 
Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 
2018) in Fontainebleau, France, which is being held from 25-29 June 
2018. (The workshop will be co-located with the main conference and will 
be held on one of the days within this period.) P&C 2018 is an 
interdisciplinary meeting which aims to bring together researchers from 
various domains with interests in physics and computation. Research and 
important issues relating to the interface between physics and the 
theories of computation, computability and information, including their 
application to physical systems, will be presented and discussed.

In 2018, the P&C workshop coincides with the imminent publication of the 
interdisciplinary volume, "Physical Perspectives on Computation, 
Computational Perspectives on Physics" (Cambridge University Press), 
edited by Michael E. Cuffaro and Samuel C. Fletcher 
(http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-science/physical-perspectives-computation-computational-perspectives-physics). 
We are pleased to announce that two of this book's contributors: Judit 
X. Madarász and Oron Shagrir will present keynote lectures at the workshop.


Invited Speakers:
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* Judit X. Madarász
* Oron Shagrir


Submissions:
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Authors are invited to submit either an extended abstract (maximum 4-5 
pages) or a full paper (12 pages maximum) to the workshop's EasyChair 
site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc20180. Submissions must 
be prepared for blind review by removing any identifying author 
information, and submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Note that 
those submitting only an extended abstract will (if accepted) be asked 
to submit the full (maximum 12 page) version of the paper prior to the 
commencement of the workshop, so as to be published in the workshop's 
pre-proceedings (see below). Papers must not have been submitted 
simultaneously to other conferences or workshops with published 
proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop.


Proceedings:
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A 'pre-proceedings' of the workshop will be published as a volume of 
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) before 
the workshop commences. Additionally, after the workshop, authors of 
selected papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions 
of their papers, subject to additional review, for publication in a 
special issue of the International Journal of Unconventional Computing 
(IJUC).


Topics:
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We welcome extended abstracts and/or paper submissions for presentation 
on topics relating to physics and computation. Typical, but not 
exclusive, topics include:

* Axiomatisation of physics: completeness, decidability, reduction
* Dynamical systems: computability, complexity
* Hypercomputation
* Molecular computation and reaction-diffusion models
* Multiple-substrate computation
* Novel models of computation
* Philosophy of physics and computation
* (Physical) Church-Turing thesis
* Quantum computation and information
* Quantum logics
* Physics and computational complexity
* Randomness: quantum, dynamical & physical randomness
* Relativistic computation
* Theory of measurement: axiomatisation, complexity
* Thermodynamics of Computation


Important Dates:
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* Submissions deadline (extended): 18 March 2018
* Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2018
* Final versions of papers due (for pre-proceedings): 21 May 2018


Registration, Participation, & Accommodation:
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P&C 2018 is part of the broader UCNC conference and all costs are 
included in registration for the primary conference. To attend, please 
register for the conference at: https://ucnc2018.lacl.fr/. Accommodation 
information will also be made available via the UCNC site.


Program Committee:
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* Hajnal Andréka
* Jack Copeland
* Nachum Dershowitz
* Samuel Fletcher
* Dominic Horsman
* Viv Kendon
* Olimpia Lombardi
* Markus Müller
* Wayne Myrvold
* Gualtiero Piccinini

Organising Committee
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* Michael Cuffaro
* Philippos Papayannopoulos


Website
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https://easychair.org/cfp/pc2018


Email address for further inquiries
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pc2018-0 at easychair.org


The conference language is English.