[FOM] FSFLA 2011: 1st announcement

["Carlos Martín Vide"]

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2011 INTERNATIONAL FALL SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES
AND APPLICATIONS

FSFLA 2011

(formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)

Tarragona, Spain

October 31 ­ November 4, 2011

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/

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ADDRESSED TO:

Undergraduate and graduate 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 will be no overlap in the schedule of the courses.

The previous event was SSFLA 2011 (http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/).

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Franz Baader (Technische Dresden), Reasoning in 
Description Logics [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata and 
Weighted Logic [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
- Max H. Garzon (Memphis), DNA Codeword Design 
and DNA Languages [introductory/intermediate, 10 hours]
- Venkatesan Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon), The 
Complexity of Approximate Constraint Satisfaction [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Tao Jiang (California Riverside), Average-case 
Analysis and Lower Bounds by the 
Incompressibility Method [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Michael Moortgat (Utrecht), Type-logical 
Grammars: Expressivity, Parsing Complexity [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
- Helmut Seidl (Technische München), Macro 
Treetransducers for XML Processing [intermediate, 6 hours]
- Alan Selman (Buffalo), Probabilistic Complexity 
Classes [intermediate, 10 hours]
- Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo), Automatic 
Sequences, Decidability, and Enumeration [intermediate, 6 hours]

SCHOOL PAPER:

On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the 
end of the School, students will be expected to 
draft an individual or jointly-authored research 
paper on a topic covered during the classes under 
the guidance of the lecturing staff.

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/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 July 31, 2011),
- 15 euros (for payments after July 31, 2011).

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

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, 
Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift 
code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos 
Martin-Vide GRLMC; address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention FSFLA 2011 and your full name in 
the subject. A receipt will be provided on site. 
Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

For early reduced rates, please notice that the 
date that counts is the date of the arrival of 
the fees to the School’s account.

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 complete the registration and the payment earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating 
the courses attended, their contents, and their 
duration. Those participants who will choose to 
be involved in a research paper will receive an 
additional certificate at the completion of the 
task, independently on whether the paper will finally get published or not.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: June 4, 2011
Starting of the registration: June 4, 2011
Early registration deadline: July 31, 2011
Starting of the School: October 31, 2011
End of the School: November 4, 2011

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/

POSTAL ADDRESS:

FSFLA 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
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