Rod Downey Founder of International Conference series CCR
10 Mar 2016 - 16:54:01 in Research
Rod Downey is a founder, with Veronica Becher in (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago), of the international conference series Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR), first held in 2004 and an annual event since 2007.
Rod is also on the conference series steering committee. http://math.hawaii.edu/wordpress/ccr-2016/conference-series/
The 2016 meeting was recently held in Honolulu and Rod will be co-editor of the proceedings, due to appear in the journal Theory of Computing Systems. Among the invited speakers at the meeting were current postdoctoral fellow Linda Brown Westrick and lecturer Dan Turetsky - further evidence of the strength of Victoria University in this exciting research area.
A local tv show was made about the CCR conference in Hawaii and can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kTtBlYbk9s