Program:
The workshop will start with an informal get together on Thursday the 12th of May. The meeting itself will start on Friday the 13th at 9:30 am with a talk by Tom Toffoli. Talks throughout the day will finish with a dinner so as to carry on the conversations in a less formal atmosphere. The workshop will continue at 9:30 on Saturday morning for a full day of coffee breaks interrupted by talks and discussions. The final talk will be from Ed Fredkin, at the start of Saturday afternoon, and will be followed by a round table discussion in order to reiterate some points that have been raised in the various talks and work towards some more intense discussion.
A price-efficient lunch will be available onsite.
Friday 13th May
9:30
Welcome and Opening
Tom Toffoli "Computation: the LEGO of Physics"
Karl Svozil "Aesthetics and Scarcity: A Physics Perspective"
12:30
Lunch break
14:45
Dan Miller "Implementing digital physics"
Hartwig Thim "Experimental evidence for a preferred frame of reference"
Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp "Crashing the computational universe"(Cancelled!)
Saturday 14th May
9:30
Juergen Schmidhuber "Optimal Prediction in Computable Universes"
Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic "metaphors for inspiration vs. metaphors for intepretation "
12:30
Lunch break
13:30
Edward Fredkin "Computing Architecture for Physics, Reflections on Digital Philosophy"
Round Table discussion - where to from here