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Intelligence - Natural and Artificial - and its relation to Infinity and Reality
Fri 16 - SAT 17 May
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who we are
meet the people at the heart of emmy
Fellows
Joseph Almog
Joseph was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Israel, Africa and Paris. He received his Dphil. from University of Oxford in 1983 and Post Doc from University of Stanford in 1984. Joseph did 36 years of professorship at the University of California (last six emeritus) and since 2013, he has been a professor at the University of Turku at the Department of Philosophy. Joseph joined Emmy Network in 2018. His research focuses on the place of infinity in understanding Nature.
Joseph was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Israel, Africa and Paris. He received his Dphil. from University of Oxford in 1983 and Post Doc from University of Stanford in 1984. Joseph did 36 years of professorship at the University of California (last six emeritus) and since 2013, he has been a professor at the University of Turku at the Department of Philosophy. Joseph joined Emmy Network in 2018. His research focuses on the place of infinity in understanding Nature.
Ivette Fuentes
Ivette Fuentes is a Professor of Physics at the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton. She is Fellow of the Emmy Network and Fellow by Special Election of Keble College, Oxford. Ivette obtained her PhD at Imperial College London (advisors: Peter L. Knight and Vlatko Vedral). Her postdoctoral experience includes a Glasstone Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship (Mansfield College) at the University of Oxford and a position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Ivette was Assistant Professor at UNAM México, Professor of Mathematical Physics at the School of Mathematical Sciences in Nottingham and Professor of Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Vienna. Other distinctions include an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Experienced Researchers) at the Technical University of Berlin and EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, New Directions Award and Inspire Award. Her main research interest is understanding physics at scales where quantum theory and general relativity interplay. She joined Emmy Network in 2022.
Ivette Fuentes is a Professor of Physics at the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton. She is Fellow of the Emmy Network and Fellow by Special Election of Keble College, Oxford. Ivette obtained her PhD at Imperial College London (advisors: Peter L. Knight and Vlatko Vedral). Her postdoctoral experience includes a Glasstone Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship (Mansfield College) at the University of Oxford and a position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Ivette was Assistant Professor at UNAM México, Professor of Mathematical Physics at the School of Mathematical Sciences in Nottingham and Professor of Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Vienna. Other distinctions include an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Experienced Researchers) at the Technical University of Berlin and EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship, New Directions Award and Inspire Award. Her main research interest is understanding physics at scales where quantum theory and general relativity interplay. She joined Emmy Network in 2022.
Joel Ouaknine
Joël Ouaknine is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research interests straddle theoretical computer science and mathematics, and lie mainly in the area of dynamical systems and computation, making use of tools from number theory, Diophantine geometry, and algebraic geometry. Joël studied mathematics at McGill University, and received his PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University in 2001. He subsequently held postdoc positions at Tulane University and Carnegie Mellon University, and worked as an academic in the Computer Science Department at Oxford University from 2004 to 2016, becoming Full Professor in 2010. He received the Roger Needham Award in 2010, an ERC grant in 2015, and was elected member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He received the 2020 Arto Salomaa Prize (jointly with James Worrell), for "outstanding contributions to Theoretical Computer Science, in particular to the theory of timed automata and to the analysis of dynamical systems". He joined the Emmy Network in 2021.
Joël Ouaknine is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research interests straddle theoretical computer science and mathematics, and lie mainly in the area of dynamical systems and computation, making use of tools from number theory, Diophantine geometry, and algebraic geometry. Joël studied mathematics at McGill University, and received his PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University in 2001. He subsequently held postdoc positions at Tulane University and Carnegie Mellon University, and worked as an academic in the Computer Science Department at Oxford University from 2004 to 2016, becoming Full Professor in 2010. He received the Roger Needham Award in 2010, an ERC grant in 2015, and was elected member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He received the 2020 Arto Salomaa Prize (jointly with James Worrell), for "outstanding contributions to Theoretical Computer Science, in particular to the theory of timed automata and to the analysis of dynamical systems". He joined the Emmy Network in 2021.
Jussi Westergren
Jussi was born in Lauritsala, Finland. He attended Atlantic College in Wales and went on to study mathematics, physics and fine art at McGill and University of Helsinki. He received his DPhil from University of Oxford. Jussi has spent his career working, around the globe, in academic, private sector and philanthropic projects. His research focus is the scope and limitations of modelling nature with a variety of applications in artificial intelligence, computing, life sciences and modelling of social systems. Apart from his research efforts Jussi has played a key role in founding and advising several companies and philanthropic projects like academia.edu, DeepMind, Intellectual Ventures and Turkana Basin Institute as well as African Institute of Mathematical Sciences to mention a few. He is the founder and current Scientific Director of the Emmy Network.
Jussi was born in Lauritsala, Finland. He attended Atlantic College in Wales and went on to study mathematics, physics and fine art at McGill and University of Helsinki. He received his DPhil from University of Oxford. Jussi has spent his career working, around the globe, in academic, private sector and philanthropic projects. His research focus is the scope and limitations of modelling nature with a variety of applications in artificial intelligence, computing, life sciences and modelling of social systems. Apart from his research efforts Jussi has played a key role in founding and advising several companies and philanthropic projects like academia.edu, DeepMind, Intellectual Ventures and Turkana Basin Institute as well as African Institute of Mathematical Sciences to mention a few. He is the founder and current Scientific Director of the Emmy Network.
Hugh Woodin
Hugh Woodin is a mathematician and set theorist. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. A type of large cardinals, the Woodin cardinals, bear his name. He joined Emmy Network in 2022.
Hugh Woodin is a mathematician and set theorist. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. A type of large cardinals, the Woodin cardinals, bear his name. He joined Emmy Network in 2022.
extraordinary fellows
Mark Goldsmith
Mark received a joint Honours Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in 2005, and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University in 2015. His research interests range from Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems to Pseudorandom Number Generation and the Prediction of Epileptic Seizures. Mark joined the Emmy Network in 2016 and has been instrumental in directing its research agenda. He has served as a guide on how theoretical results may be applied to real-world problems.
Mark received a joint Honours Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in 2005, and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University in 2015. His research interests range from Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems to Pseudorandom Number Generation and the Prediction of Epileptic Seizures. Mark joined the Emmy Network in 2016 and has been instrumental in directing its research agenda. He has served as a guide on how theoretical results may be applied to real-world problems.
Vesa Halava
Vesa Halava is a Professor of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Turku. His field of research is in the field of Computability, more precisely on undecidable problems in automata and formal langauges and in the semigroups generated by integer matrices. Recently, Vesa has also focused on the Foundations of Computation and related issues in the Foundations of Mathematics - in Logic and Set Theory. He has also published articles in Combinatorics on Words.
Vesa Halava is a Professor of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Turku. His field of research is in the field of Computability, more precisely on undecidable problems in automata and formal langauges and in the semigroups generated by integer matrices. Recently, Vesa has also focused on the Foundations of Computation and related issues in the Foundations of Mathematics - in Logic and Set Theory. He has also published articles in Combinatorics on Words.
Sabrina Maniscalco
Sabrina Maniscalco is the Professor of Quantum Information, Computing and Logic at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq Ltd (www.algorithmiq.fi). She is also an adjunct professor at Aalto University (Helsinki), the vice Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Quantum technologies (www.qtf.fi), and the vice Director for Education of InstituteQ (www.instituteq.fi). Prof. Maniscalco works on the understanding of limitations and possibilities of realistic quantum technologies, specifically focussing on the effect of noise on quantum-enhanced devices. More recently she has started to investigate complex quantum networks with the aim of understanding the interplay between quantum advantage and network topology. Finally, she is the co-creator of the online platform QPlayLearn for education, outreach and training on quantum science and technology.
Sabrina Maniscalco is the Professor of Quantum Information, Computing and Logic at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq Ltd (www.algorithmiq.fi). She is also an adjunct professor at Aalto University (Helsinki), the vice Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Quantum technologies (www.qtf.fi), and the vice Director for Education of InstituteQ (www.instituteq.fi). Prof. Maniscalco works on the understanding of limitations and possibilities of realistic quantum technologies, specifically focussing on the effect of noise on quantum-enhanced devices. More recently she has started to investigate complex quantum networks with the aim of understanding the interplay between quantum advantage and network topology. Finally, she is the co-creator of the online platform QPlayLearn for education, outreach and training on quantum science and technology.
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He is regarded as one of the greatest living physicists, mathematicians and scientists, and is particularly noted for the breadth and depth of his work in both natural and formal sciences.
Sir Roger Penrose an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He is regarded as one of the greatest living physicists, mathematicians and scientists, and is particularly noted for the breadth and depth of his work in both natural and formal sciences.
Edward Jung
Edward Jung is a global expert in innovation ecosystems, with 40 years of experience in software, R&D, entrepreneurship, and startups in multiple countries, with scientific expertise in mathematical physics and biophysics.
An avid inventor and entrepreneur, Edward holds more than 1,200 issued patents and founded more than 40 organisations in the areas of biomedicine, computing, networking, energy, and material sciences.
Edward founded Intellectual Ventures in 1999 after leaving Microsoft Corporation, where he was chief architect and co-founder of Microsoft Research. His biomedical research in the 1980s in protein structure and function was published in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Biochemistry.
Edward has served as an advisor to numerous non-commercial organisations, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Health Organization.
Edward Jung is a global expert in innovation ecosystems, with 40 years of experience in software, R&D, entrepreneurship, and startups in multiple countries, with scientific expertise in mathematical physics and biophysics.
An avid inventor and entrepreneur, Edward holds more than 1,200 issued patents and founded more than 40 organisations in the areas of biomedicine, computing, networking, energy, and material sciences.
Edward founded Intellectual Ventures in 1999 after leaving Microsoft Corporation, where he was chief architect and co-founder of Microsoft Research. His biomedical research in the 1980s in protein structure and function was published in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Biochemistry.
Edward has served as an advisor to numerous non-commercial organisations, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Health Organization.
Prof Stephen Davies
Steve Davies obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from New College, Oxford, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 under the supervision of Gordon H. Whitham.
After his PhD, Davies subsequently held an ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Malcolm Green and a NATO Fellowship working with Derek Barton before joining the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Gif-sur-Yvette as Attaché de Recherche working with Hugh Felkin.
In 1980 he returned to Oxford to take up a University Lectureship in Chemistry. Whilst remaining an active academic, in 1991 he founded Oxford Asymmetry Ltd (an asymmetric synthesis company) as sole investor.[5] He also founded Oxford Diversity Ltd (a combinatorial chemistry company). These two companies were combined to form Oxford Asymmetry International Plc in 1999 which was sold to Evotec in 2000, valued at £316m. In 2003 he founded VASTox (Value Added Screening Technology Oxford) a zebrafish screening company. It floated on AIM in 2004 and has since acquired Dainolabs (zebrafish) and Dextra (a carbohydrate chemistry company) as well as the assets of MNL Pharma.[6] VASTox then changed its name to Summit. In 2009 the zebrafish screening operation was acquired by Evotec for £0.5 Million. In 1996, he became Professor of Chemistry and in 2006, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry.
Davies is founder and editor-in-chief for Tetrahedron: Asymmetry.
Davies along with Malcolm Green and Michael Mingos have compiled a set of rules that summarize where nucleophilic additions will occur on pi ligands.
Steve Davies obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from New College, Oxford, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 under the supervision of Gordon H. Whitham.
After his PhD, Davies subsequently held an ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Malcolm Green and a NATO Fellowship working with Derek Barton before joining the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Gif-sur-Yvette as Attaché de Recherche working with Hugh Felkin.
In 1980 he returned to Oxford to take up a University Lectureship in Chemistry. Whilst remaining an active academic, in 1991 he founded Oxford Asymmetry Ltd (an asymmetric synthesis company) as sole investor.[5] He also founded Oxford Diversity Ltd (a combinatorial chemistry company). These two companies were combined to form Oxford Asymmetry International Plc in 1999 which was sold to Evotec in 2000, valued at £316m. In 2003 he founded VASTox (Value Added Screening Technology Oxford) a zebrafish screening company. It floated on AIM in 2004 and has since acquired Dainolabs (zebrafish) and Dextra (a carbohydrate chemistry company) as well as the assets of MNL Pharma.[6] VASTox then changed its name to Summit. In 2009 the zebrafish screening operation was acquired by Evotec for £0.5 Million. In 1996, he became Professor of Chemistry and in 2006, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry.
Davies is founder and editor-in-chief for Tetrahedron: Asymmetry.
Davies along with Malcolm Green and Michael Mingos have compiled a set of rules that summarize where nucleophilic additions will occur on pi ligands.