Ecole: PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES, Tarragona, Spain

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         1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

                                   2001-2003

                          Rovira i Virgili University
                 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics

                               Tarragona, Spain


Courses and professors 1st year (April-June 2002):

Applications of Formal Languages                  Solomon Marcus, Bucharest
Languages                                         Victor Mitrana, Bucharest
Combinatorics on Words                            Tero Harju, Turku
Regular Grammars                                  Masami Ito, Kyoto)
Context-Free Grammars                             Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg
Context-Sensitive Grammars                        Alexandru Mateescu,
Bucharest
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars                 Henning Bordihn, Potsdam
Derivation Trees                                  Carlos Martin-Vide,
Tarragona
Finite Automata                                   Sheng Yu, London ON
Pushdown Automata                                 Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom,
Leiden
Turing Machines                                   Maurice Margenstern, Metz
Patterns                                          Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON
Infinite Words                                    Juhani Karhumaki, Turku
Two-Dimensional Languages                         Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima
Regulated Rewriting                               Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg
Contextual Grammars                               Rodica Ceterchi, Bucharest
Parallel Grammars                                 Henning Fernau, Tuebingen

Courses and professors 2nd year (October 2002-January 2003):

Grammar Systems                                   Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju,
Budapest
Ecogrammar Systems and Colonies                   Alica Kelemenova, Opava
Tree Automata and Tree Languages                  Magnus Steinby, Turku
Formal Power Series                               Werner Kuich, Vienna
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments             Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden
Membrane Computing                                Gheorghe Paun, Bucharest
Splicing Systems and Aqueous Computing            Tom Head, Binghamton
Quantum Computing                                 Cristian Calude, Auckland
Formal Languages and Natural Language Syntax      Walter Savitch, San Diego
Parsing                                           Giorgio Satta, Padua
Tree Adjoining Grammars                           James Rogers, Richmond IN
Weighted Finite-State Transducers                 Mehryar Mohri, AT&T,
Florham Park NJ
Formal Languages and Logic                        Vincenzo Manca, Pisa
Grammatical Inference and Learning                Takashi Yokomori, Tokyo
Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life       Jozef Kelemen, Opava
Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition          Rudolf Freund, Vienna
Text Searching Algorithms                         Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Santiago de Chile
Cryptography                                      Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Vaasa
Complexity                                        Markus Holzer, Munich

Dissertation:

After following the courses, students enrolled in the programme will have
to write a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order
to get the so-called European PhD degree. All the professors in the
programme will be allowed to supervise students' work.

Students:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world.
Most appropriate previous degrees of students include: Computer Science,
Mathematics and Linguistics. Students are assumed either to have a certain
background in discrete mathematics or to be ready to get it by April 2002.

According to the expected programme's budget, more than half of the
accepted students will be funded, so that their accommodation and living
expenses while in Spain will be covered by the programme. These conditions
could be improved, at the programme chairman's discretion and depending on
the definite availability of resources, in the case of students from
Eastern European countries and others.

Deadlines:

Free pre-registration: September 30, 2001
Selection of students: November 15, 2001
Application for funding: December 15, 2001
Decision about funding: February 15, 2002
Registration: February 28, 2002
Starting of the courses: April 2, 2002

Questions and further information:

Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at
cmv at astor.urv.es

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Carlos Martin-Vide
Head, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Head, Department of Romance Philologies
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559-543
Fax: +34-977-559-597
E-mail: cmv at astor.urv.es, cmv at tinet.fut.es
Web: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html
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