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["Robert Merkin" <bobmerk AT earthlink.net>]



Rozenberg was born on Pi Day??? What are the odds? (1 in 365 or 366 I guess ...)

 

Happy slightly belated Pi Day!

 

 

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Subject: [Coq-Club] Symposium honouring Grzegorz Rozenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday

Magic in Science, June 17, 2017, Turku, Finland
http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/ 

This symposium will be co-located with “Computability in Europe (CiE) 2017“. It takes place on June 17, 2017, immediately after CiE. The symposium celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg, University of Leiden, the Netherlands and University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (the actual birthday date is March 14).

Grzegorz Rozenberg is one of the world leaders in research on Theoretical Computer Science and Natural Computing. As a matter of fact, he is often called the guru of Natural Computing, having started promoting it as a coherent scientific discipline already from the 1970s – he gave this area its name and defined its scope. He played a central role in the development of theoretical computer science in Europe. His research is very broad in scope and it is a prime example of interdisciplinary research. He  has  authored exceptionally  many research  papers opening  new  vistas as  well  as  well-known books about  theoretical computer science and natural computing. He  supervised  numerous  Ph.D.  students,   many  of  whom  have  become  known scientists.

He serves or has served the international computer science community in numerous roles, including: president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS); cofounder and president of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering (ISNSCE); chair of the steering committee of the DNA Computing Conference; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets; chair of the steering committee of the European Educational Forum; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Developments in Language Theory; co-chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation; and director of European Molecular Computing Consortium.

He also served on the editorial boards of many international journals and book series. He is the editor-in-chief and either the founder or a cofounder of some very well-known journals and book series: the journal Natural Computing, the journal Theoretical Computer Science C (Theory of Natural Computing), the book series Monographs and Texts in Theoretical Computer Science, the book series Natural Computing, and the book series Advances in Petri Nets. For over 20 years, he was the editor of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. He edited four handbooks: on formal languages, on graph grammars and computing by graph transformations, on membrane computing, and on natural computing.

G. Rozenberg is a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, a member of Academia Europaea, and the holder of Honorary Doctorates of the University of Turku, Finland, the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, the University of Bologna, Italy, the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and the University of Bucharest, Romania. He has received the Distinguished Achievements Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science “in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical computer science”. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.

He has also a very active and creative life outside science. For example, he is a performing magician, which is also reflected in his research. His very impressive numerous scientific results are somehow sprinkled with a touch of magic: this explains the title of the symposium. Also, he is an expert in paintings of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.

The talks given at the symposium will have an overview character and together they will cover a broad range of topics reflecting Grzegorz Rozenberg’s broad research interests. Among the topics covered are: P vs NP, stochastic search, natural computing, biologically-inspired models of computation, reaction systems, chemical reaction networks, membrane computing, graph isomorphism, graph polynomials, matroids, synthesis of concurrent systems, Petri nets, formal language theory and combinatorics on words, DNA rearrangements in ciliates, patterns in genomes, smart textiles, smart drones, magic squares, wonder cubes, and odor reproduction.