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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;
font-weight:bold'>SSTiC 201</span></font></b><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>3<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
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font-weight:bold'>July 22-26, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Research
Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Rovira
i Virgili University<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the
convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the
beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as
consolidated researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of
computer science by means of more than 70 six-hour courses dealing with hot
topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and
attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as the main motto of
their research work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>ADDRESSED TO:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Graduate students from around the world. There are
no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold.
However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the
description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge
background.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more
advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in
the field.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful
to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse
branches of computing nowadays.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>REGIME:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>At least 8 parallel sessions will be held during
the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they
will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>VENUE:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria'>Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Arquitecte Rovira, 2<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>43001 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Tarragona</st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>http://www.palaucongrestgna.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>COURSES AND
PROFESSORS:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Divyakant Agrawal</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Santa Barbara</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Scalable Data Management in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place> and Cloud
Computing Infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Shun-ichi Amari</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Riken</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Information Geometry and Its Applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>James Anderson</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Chapel Hill</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Pierre Baldi</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Irvine</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the
Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Yoshua Bengio</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Montréal</span></i>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
Deep Learning of Representations<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Stephen Brewster</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Glasgow</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>advanced</u>] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Bruno Buchberger</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Linz</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate
Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Rajkumar Buyya</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Melbourne</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Jan Camenisch</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>IBM Zurich</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Cryptography for Privacy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>John M. Carroll</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Penn State</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Jeffrey S. Chase</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Duke</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure Federated Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Larry S. Davis</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>College Park</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Video Analysis of Human Activities<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Paul De Bra</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Eindhoven</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Adaptive Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Marco Dorigo</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Brussels</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>introductory</u>] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Max J. Egenhofer</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Maine</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:State></st1:place>)
[<u>introductory/intermediate</u>] Qualitative Spatial Relations:
Formalizations and Inferences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Matthias
Felleisen</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Northeastern</span></i>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Programming with Contracts<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Richard M.
Fujimoto</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Georgia
Tech</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>] Parallel and Distributed Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>David Garlan</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Carnegie Mellon</span></i>) [<u>advanced</u>]
Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Mario Gerla</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Los Angeles</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Vehicle Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Georgios B.
Giannakis</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Minnesota</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:State></st1:place>)
[<u>advanced</u>] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and
Networking<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Ralph Grishman</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>New York</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:State></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Information Extraction from Natural Language<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Mark Guzdial</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Georgia Tech</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer
Science<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Francisco Herrera</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Granada</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open
Problems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Paul Hudak</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Yale</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Syed Ali Jafar</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Irvine</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Interference Alignment<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Niraj K. Jha</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Princeton</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
FinFET Circuit Design<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>George Karypis</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Minnesota</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:State></st1:place>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms,
and Programming<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Aggelos K.
Katsaggelos</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Northwestern</span></i>)
[<u>intermediate/advanced</u>] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Arie E. Kaufman</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stony Brook</span></i>) [<u>advanced</u>]
Advances in Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Carl Kesselman</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Southern California</span></i></st1:place>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Biomedical Informatics and Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Hugo Krawczyk</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>IBM Research</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange
Protocols<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Pierre L'Ecuyer</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Montréal</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Laks Lakshmanan</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>British Columbia</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:State>)
[<u>intermediate/advanced</u>] Information and Influence Spread in Social
Networks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Wenke Lee</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Georgia Tech</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Maurizio
Lenzerini</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Roma
La Sapienza</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>] Ontology-based Data Integration<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Ming C. Lin</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Chapel Hill</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
Physically-based Modeling and Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Jane W.S. Liu</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Academia Sinica</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness
and Response<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Nanyang
Tech</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>] Modelling and Animating Virtual Humans<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Satoru Miyano</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Tokyo</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Aloysius K. Mok</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Austin</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory/advanced</u>] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Daniel Mossé</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Pittsburgh</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Asymmetric Multicore Management<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Hermann Ney</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Aachen</span></i>) [<u>intermediate/advanced</u>]
Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to
Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>David M. Nicol</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Urbana</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Cyber-security and Privacy in the Power Grid<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Jeff Offutt</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>George Mason</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>David Padua</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Urbana</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Data Parallel Programming<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Bijan Parsia</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Manchester</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory</u>] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Massoud Pedram</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Southern California</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Energy Efficient Architectures and Information Processing Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Jian</span></font></b></st1:country-region></st1:City><b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Cambria;font-weight:bold'> <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pei</st1:country-region></st1:State></span></font></b></st1:country-region></st1:place><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Simon Fraser</span></i>) [<u>intermediate/advanced</u>]
Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Charles E.
Perkins</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>FutureWei</span></i>)
[<u>intermediate/advanced</u>] Beyond 4G<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Prabhakar
Raghavan</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Google</span></i>)
[<u>introductory/intermediate</u>] Web Search and Advertising<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Sudhakar M. Reddy</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Iowa</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:State>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Design for Test and Test of Digital VLSI Circuits<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Gustavo Rossi</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>La Plata</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Kaushik Roy</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Purdue</span></i>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
Low-energy Computing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Yousef Saad</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Minnesota</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:State>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Projection Methods and Their Applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Robert Sargent</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Syracuse</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Validating Models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Douglas C.
Schmidt</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Vanderbilt</span></i>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked
Software<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Bart Selman</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Cornell</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Mubarak Shah</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Central Florida</span></i>) [<u>advanced</u>]
Visual Crowd Surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Ron Shamir</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Tel Aviv</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Micha Sharir</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Tel Aviv</span></i>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
Geometric Arrangements and Incidences: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Algebra<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Satinder Singh</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Ann Arbor</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory/advanced</u>] Reinforcement Learning: On Machines Learning to
Act from Experience<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Elliot Soloway</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Ann Arbor</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age
of Mobilism<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Dawn Xiaodong
Song</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Berkeley</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>advanced</u>] Selected Topics in Computer Security<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Daniel Thalmann</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Nanyang Tech</span></i>) [<u>intermediate</u>]
Simulation of Individuals, Groups and Crowds and Their Interaction with the
User<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Mike Thelwall</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Wolverhampton</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Julita Vassileva</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Saskatchewan</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:State>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Yao</span></font></b></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City><b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;
font-weight:bold'> Wang</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Polytechnic New York</span></i>) [<u>introductory/advanced</u>]
Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Gio Wiederhold</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stanford</span></i>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Global Market
Place</st1:country-region></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Ian H. Witten</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Waikato</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place>) [<u>introductory</u>]
Data Mining Using Weka<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Limsoon Wong</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>National Singapore</span></i>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Michael
Wooldridge</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'> (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Oxford</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>introductory</u>] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Philip S. Yu</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Illinois Chicago</span></i>) [<u>advanced</u>]
Mining Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Yuanyuan Zhou</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>San Diego</span></i></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:City>)
[<u>intermediate</u>] Building Robust Software<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Justin Zobel</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Melbourne</span></i>) [<u>introductory/intermediate</u>]
Writing and Research Skills for Computer Scientists<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>REGISTRATION:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>It has to be done on line at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Since a large number of attendees are expected and
the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed
on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when
the capacity of the venue will be complete.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>FEES:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by
the corresponding deadline. They give the right to attend all courses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>ACCOMMODATION:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Information about accommodation will be available
on the website of the School.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>CERTIFICATE:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Participants will be delivered a certificate of
attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26,
April 26, May 26, June 26, July 26, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>QUESTIONS AND
FURTHER INFORMATION:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Lilica Voicu:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>POSTAL ADDRESS:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>SSTiC 2013</span></font><font size=3 face=Cambria><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Rovira i Virgili University<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=IT style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Av. Catalunya, 35<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>43002 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Tarragona</st1:country-region></st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Phone: +34-977-559543<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Fax: +34-977-558386</span></font><font size=3
face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Ajuntament de Tarragona<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria'>Diputació de Tarragona<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria'>Universitat Rovira i Virgili</span></font><font size=3
face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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