Islands remain under high-surf advisory

A high-surf advisory remains in effect until at least 6 a.m. Monday for the east shores of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii island.

Also covered under the advisory are the north shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and Maui, the National Weather Service said.

The weather service said the surf would build to 7 to 10 feet today along east shores and 10 to 15 feet along north shores.

“Strong tradewinds will continue to produce elevated and rough surf along east-facing shores of most islands through at least Sunday night,” the agency said on its website. A building northwest swell will produce high surf on the north shores, forecasters said.

Accompanying the high surf will be strong breaking waves and longshore and rip currents, making swimming “difficult and dangerous.”

Meanwhile, gale-force tradewinds will begin to slowly drop today, but will produce hazardous seas around the islands through tonight, the weather service said. A small-craft advisory remains in effect until at least 6 a.m. Monday, with winds of 30 to 35 mph and seas up to 12 feet.

Leading computer scientist to speak at UH

A renowned computer scientist will deliver the keynote speech Jan. 8 at the 11th International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness being held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Lance Fortnow will examine the role of “bounded rationality” in economics during his talk from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in the Physical Science Auditorium, room 217.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Fortnow is professor and chairman in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech and a leading researcher in computational complexity.

He is the author of “The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the Search for the Impossible,” a popular science book published by Princeton University Press. It addresses the so-called “P versus NP problem,” which poses the question: Can every solved problem whose answer can be quickly verified by a computer also be quickly solved by a computer?

Fortnow’s work in economics includes game theory, optimal strategies and prediction.

The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Association for Symbolic Logic, the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics at UH-Manoa.