Report on the annual Summer Meeting of the New Zealand Mathematic s Research Institut e Kaikoura, New Zealand January 7-15, 200 0 A lovely tradition started in the mid-1990's in New Zealand . Each January, the mathematics research community converges in some scenic location (with which New Zealan d abounds) and enjoys a series of first-rate lectures on some selected mathematical topic . This year the event was organized by Rod Downey and Denis Hirschfeldt of Victori a University, Wellington . The chosen topic was one that the SIGACT community holds near and dear: Computability, Complexity, and Computational Algebr a Festivities spanned eight days, with two or three lectures most mornings and evenings, an d free time in the afternoons (and all day on Wednesday) to explore marine wildlife, th e dramatic coastal landscape, and forested mountains around the small town of Kaikoura, o n the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, north of Christchurch . Speakers (in alphabetical order) : ¢ Eric Allender, Rutgers, 3 lectures on Basic Complexity ¢ Elwyn Berlekamp, Berkeley, 3 lectures on Games ¢ Felipe Cucker, City University of Hong Kong, 3 lectures on Real Computatio n ¢ Persi Diaconis,
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