EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Renormalization and computation
Speaker: Yuri I. Manin
Speaker Info: Northwestern
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I argue that infinities in the classical computation theory such as the unsolvability of the Halting Problem can be addressed in the same way as Feynman divergences in Quantum Field Theory, and that meaningful versions of renormalization in this context can be devised. Connections with quantum computation are also touched upon.