Honorary doctoral degree for Henryk Wozniakowski
Henryk Wozniakowski was presented with an honorary doctoral degree
of the University of Jena.
The celebration was on Friday, June 6, 2008, at 3 p.m.
in the Aula, main building of the FSU,
Fürstengraben 1, Jena.
Program:
Wilhelm Rossak (dean): Welcome
Erich Novak: Laudatio
Klaus Dicke (rektor): Presentation of the honorary degree
Henryk Wozniakowski: Complexity as a new challenge for mathematicians
Joseph F. Traub: A brief history of information-based complexity
Ian Sloan: How high is high-dimensional?
Intermezzi: Baroque chamber music
Reception
From the Laudatio:
Henryk Wozniakowski has influenced many fields
of mathematics, theoretical computer science, and computational
physics. Together with Joe Traub, he created the field
"Information-Based Complexity" or
"Complexity Theory for Continuous Problems".
In 1994 Henryk wrote the first papers on the new field "tractability of
multivariate problems". Since then, hundreds
of papers have been written on this
new subject, many of them by Henryk.
Now, with the work of Henryk Wozniakowski, we understand the
curse of dimension much better.
Congratulations to Henryk!
Einladung/invitation (ps-file)
Programm (pdf-file)
Laudatio, in German (pdf-file)
Some pictures that go with the laudatio
(a long pdf-file)
Die Urkunde, the diploma (pdf-file)
The following book contains all the lectures and more:
E. Novak, I. H. Sloan, J. F. Traub and H. Wozniakowski:
Essays on the Complexity of Continuous Problems,
Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich 2009.
Info of the publisher.
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