[ecoop-info] FSFLA 2012: 2nd announcement

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2012 INTERNATIONAL FALL SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

 

FSFLA 2012

 

(formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)

 

Tarragona, Spain

 

October 29 – November 2, 2012

 

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2012/

 

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AIM:

 

FSFLA 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different
levels on selected topics in language and automata theory and their
applications. The students choose their preferred courses according to their
interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective
fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their
research career.

 

The previous event in this series was FSFLA 2011 (
<http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/).

 

ADDRESSED TO:

 

Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most
appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other
students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular
Biology or Logic) are welcome too provided they have a good background in
discrete mathematics.

 

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who
want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

 

There is no overlap in the class schedule.

 

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

 

- Eric Allender (Rutgers), Circuit Complexity: Recent Progress in Lower
Bounds [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan), Periodicity and Approximate Periodicity in
Pattern Matching [introductory, 6 hours]

- Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris 7), Automated Verification of Concurrent Boolean
Programs [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux), Automata for Monadic Second-order Model
Checking [intermediate, 8 hours]

- Jörg Flum (Freiburg), The Halting Problem for Turing Machines
[introductory/advanced, 6 hours]

- Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck), Termination of Rewrite Systems
[introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

 

REGISTRATION:

 

It has to be done on line at

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2012/Registration.php

 

FEES:

 

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes.
The rule is:

 

1 hour = 

 

- 10 euros (for payments until June 2, 2012), 

- 12.50 euros (for payments between June 3 and August 15, 2012),

- 15 euros (for payments after August 15, 2012). 

 

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

 

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

 

Uno-e Bank

bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1

account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC

account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

 

Please mention FSFLA 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be
provided on site.

 

Remarks:

 

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the
bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due
to the unavailability of the instructor.

 

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash.
For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it
earlier.

 

ACCOMMODATION:

 

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.

 

CERTIFICATE:

 

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their
contents, and their duration. 

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Announcement of the programme: March 24, 2012

Starting of the registration: March 24, 2012

Very early registration deadline: June 2, 2012

Early registration deadline: August 15, 2012

Starting of the School: October 29, 2012

End of the School: November 2, 2012 

 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

 

Lilica Voicu:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

 

WEBSITE:

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2012/ 

 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

 

FSFLA 2012

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

 

Phone: +34-977-559543

Fax: +34-977-558386

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

 

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

 

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