Manuel Blum, professor of computer science, and four Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. students in computer science will be among the world’s top students and most distinguished researchers attending the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Sept. 21-26, in Heidelberg, Germany.

Building on the successful model of the annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum brings together students and early-career researchers with winners of the Turing Award and Nevanlinna Prize in computer science, as well as the Abel Prize and Fields Medal in mathematics. Formal lectures occur each morning with the remainder of the day set aside for students and researchers to meet informally with the Laureates.

Blum, a Turing Award laureate, will present a lecture on his latest research, "Toward a Theory of Humanly Computable Protocols," on Sept. 22.

The CMU students – Anvesh Komuravelli, Soon Ho Kong, Danai Koutra and Sahil Singla – are part of an American delegation of 20 students sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Approximately 200 students and early-career researchers from around the world are expected to attend the weeklong meeting.

The forum is a joint initiative of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and the Klaus Tschira Stiftung.