Clifford Lectures

The 2007 - 2008 Clifford Lectures will take place on the campus of Tulane University from Wednesday, March 12 through Saturday, March 15, 2008. This year’s Clifford Lecturer is Professor Samson Abramsky, who holds the Christopher Strachey Chair in Computing at the University of Oxford, UK. Samson’s theme for the series is,

Information Flow in Physics, Geometry, Logic and Computation.

Samson will give five lectures during the lecture series. In addition to Samson’s lectures, thirteen other distinguished

researchers will give one-hour lectures on the theme of the series. The additional speakers are:

Rick Blute, University of Ottawa Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University

Howard Barnum, Los Alamos Sam Lomonaco, UMBC

Adam Brandenburger, NYU Keye Martin, NRL

Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Prakash Panangaden, McGill

Vincent Danos, Paris VII and Edinburgh Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute

Ross Duncan, University of Oxford Phil Scott, University of Ottawa

Alexander Wilce, Susquehana University

We encourage all researchers with interests in information flow to attend the lectures. If you want to attend the lectures, please send an email to me.

There is no charge to attend any of the lectures, but there is a fee for those who wish to participate in the additional activities, including the lunches and the conference dinner. The registration fee to take lunch with the group is $60, and the fee for the conference dinner, which will take place on Saturday evening, March 15, is $80.

Participants attending the lectures are staying at the Hampton Inn, 3626 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA. The Hampton Inn is especially convenient to the Tulane campus, since the St. Charles Avenue streetcar is once again running. To reserve a hotel room for the meeting should contact the hotel directly at (800) 426-7866. You should ask for the Uptown Location at 3626 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA.

The 2007 - 2008 Clifford Lectures are sponsored by

The A. H. Clifford Fund

The Pendergraft Herbert Buchanan Professorship Research Fund

and

The US Office of Naval Research