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Seminar
TCS in the Nowhere.
Speaker: Nikolay V. Shilov, visiting COSC Erskine Fellow.
Institute: Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Time/Place: 10:00 AM, Wed, 23 April, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
Abstract
In 1999 the Australasian Theory Symposium took place in Auckland. Once during a coffee break we chatted with a Ph.D. student from Queensland. The standard start, "Where do you come from?" revealed my Russian origin. "I am not aware about Russian research in Theoretical Computer Science", said my opponent. I was up to tell the story, but suddenly a stranger pre-empted our discussion and told pretty much (for coffee break) about people and ideas in Russian Theoretical Computer Science.
Later it turned out that the stranger was a New Zealander, Lindsay Groves. It was my luck to meet the right person in the right place. But now he is in the Victoria University of Wellington and I am here, in Christchurch. This time it is my turn to tell my story about some people and some ideas in Russian Theoretical Computer Science.
I am going to sketch in the talk the research environment in the former Soviet Union, funding, industrial demand and research supply, education, trends, international collaboration, etc. In particular I am going to present some theoretical research projects that are running in my home Laboratory for Theory of Programming in the A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems.
Biography
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