[FOM] St. PetersburgCSR-2006: Final Call for Papers (fwd)

[Grigori Mints]

                                 CSR-2006
              International Computer Science Symposium in Russia

         Sponsored by the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
     Organized by St.Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics

                    June 8-12, 2006, St.Petersburg, Russia

                             Final Call for Papers

CSR 2006 is the first conference in a series of regular events intended
to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer
science.  CSR 2006 consists of two tracks:

Theory Track:
* algorithms, protocols, and data structures;
* complexity and cryptography;
* formal languages, automata and their applications to computer science;
* computational models and concepts;
* proof theory and applications of logic to computer science.

Applications and Technology Track:
* programming and languages;
* computer architecture and hardware design;
* symbolic computing and numerical applications;
* application software;
* artificial intelligence and robotics.

Program committee:

Theory Track: Sergei Artemov, Paul Beame, Michael Ben-Or, Andrei Bulatov,
   Peter Buergisser, Felipe Cucker, Evgeny Dantsin, Volker Diekert,
   Dima Grigoriev (chair), Yuri Gurevich, Janos Makowsky, Yuri Matiyasevich,
   Peter Bro Miltersen, Grigori Mints, Pavel Pudlak, Prabhakar Raghavan,
   Alexander Razborov, Michael E. Saks, Alexander Shen, Amin Shokrollahi,
   Anatol Slissenko, Mikhail Volkov

Applications and Technology Track: Boris Babayan, Robert Bauer, Matthias Blume,
   Walter Daelemans, Vassil Dimitrov, Sergey Dmitriev, Richard Fateman,
   Dina Goldin, John R. Harrison (chair), John Mashey, Bertrand Meyer,
   Fedor Novikov, Michael Parks, Andreas Reuter, Mary Sheeran,
   Elena Troubitsyna, Miroslav Velev, Sergey Zhukov

The (confirmed) invited speakers include:

* Boaz Barak (Princeton University, USA)
* Gerard Berry (Esterel Technologies, France)
* Bob Colwell (R&E Colwell & Assoc. Inc., USA)
* Byron Cook (Microsoft Research, USA)
* Melvin Fitting (Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
* Russell Impagliazzo (University of California at San Diego, USA)
* Michael Kaminski (Technion, Israel)
* Pascal Koiran (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
* Omer Reingold (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

The opening lecture will be given by Stephen A. Cook
(University of Toronto, Canada).

It is planned to publish the proceedings of the symposium in
Springer's LNCS series.

Important dates:
* Paper submission:	December 11, 2005
* Notification:		January 31, 2006
* Symposium:		June 8-12, 2006

There will be limited support for travel expenses of Russian participants.

Further information and contacts:
   Web: http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~csr2006/
   Email: csr06chair at logic.pdmi.ras.ru

With best regards,

Edward Hirsch
CSR-2006, Conference Chair