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The Turing Year in China is a collection of special events which will take place in China throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, philosophy and the wider scientific world.

The Turing Year in China promises to be worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates.

The Turing Lectures
16-21 May 2012
Institute of Software (ISCAS)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

ISCAS at the Software Park in Beijing

The highlight Turing Year in China is the Turing Lectures series given by a number of distinguished speakers and the TAMC 2012 conference which take place from 16 to 21 of May 2012 at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Conference Venue:

3rd and 4th floor of No. 5 Building, Institute Of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS)
No.4 South Fourth Street Zhong Guan Cun, Beijing.

Hotels:

Maps:

From Jade or Wuke Hotel to the conference Venue (ISCAS)
Google map from Jade Palace Hotel to the conference Venue (ISCAS) and PDF
Google map from Wuke Hotel to the conference Venue (ISCAS) and PDF

Transport:

From Jade Palace or Wuke hotel to the conference venue: walking distance (no more than 10 minutes)
From the airport to the hotels: take a TAXI and show map 1 to the driver (fare should be about 100RMB)

In case you encounter a problem, please call the staff at the institute at: +86-010-62661616

Registration:

Time: May 15th. and during the conference, 9:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m.
Venue: 333 room, 3rd floor of No. 5 Building, Institute Of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Turing Lecturers

		S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Chair Turing Centenary Committee)
		John Hopcroft (Cornell, 1986 Turing award winner)
		Richard M. Karp (Berkeley, 1985 Turing Award Winner)
		Jon Kleinberg (Cornell, 2006 Nevanlinna Prize)
		Li Deyi (Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China)
		Wei Li (BUAA, Beijing, China)
		Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua, 2000 Turing Award Winner)

Organizing Chairs for the Turing Lectures 2012:

John Hopcroft (Cornell)
Angsheng Li (ISCAS)

Organizing Committee for the Turing year in China:

George Barmpalias (ISCAS)
Barry S. Cooper (Leeds)
John Hopcroft (Cornell)
Angsheng Li (ISCAS, co-chair)
Yucheng Li (ISCAS, co-chair)
Huimin Lin (ISCAS)
Pengzhi Liu (Renmin Highschool, co-chair)

Changming Liu (Standing Member of CPPCC, Highschool No.4, co-chair)
Yanhua Liu (State Council Advisor, Ministry of Science and Technology co-chair)
Zhiyong Liu (ICT, CAS)
Ruqian Lu (Math Academy, CAS)
Jian Zhang (ISCAS)
Chaochen Zhou (ISCAS)

Local organizing Committee for the Turing year in China:

George Barmpalias (ISCAS)
Yunfu Cao (ISCAS)
Haiming Chen (ISCAS)
Zhiming Ding (ISCAS)
Angsheng Li (ISCAS, co-chair)
Yucheng Li (ISCAS, co-chair)
Dongdai Lin (ISCAS)

Kelong Liu (ISCAS)
Hongan Wang (ISCAS)
Mingji Xia (ISCAS)
Ye Yang (ISCAS)
Yongji Wang (ISCAS)
Naijun Zhan (ISCAS)

The events in the Turing year in China will be based in the Institute of Software (Building 5 in the Software park) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

The Turing Lectures as well as the sessions of the TAMC 2012 conference will be held in main conference rooms in the 3rd and 4th floor of the building from 16 to 21 of May 2012.