Ecole: 5th International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications, Tarragona, Spain

Tue Aug 30 09:02:15 UTC 2005

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:38:45 +0200
From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" <carlos.martin at urv.net>
Message-ID: <12d76e128f3f.128f3f12d76e at urv.net>
X-url: http://www.grlmc.com

5th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN
FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2005-2007

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain

http://www.grlmc.com

Awarded with the Mark of Quality (Mención de Calidad) by the
Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, MCD2003-00820

Courses and professors 1st term (March-July 2006)

Languages -- Alexander Okhotin, Tarragona
Combinatorics on Words -- Tero Harju, Turku
Regular Grammars -- Masami Ito, Kyoto
Context-Free Grammars -- Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg
Context-Sensitive Grammars -- Victor Mitrana, Tarragona
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars -- Henning Bordihn, Potsdam
Finite Automata -- Sheng Yu, London ON
Pushdown Automata -- Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Leiden
Turing Machines -- Holger Petersen, Stuttgart
Varieties of Formal Languages -- Jean-Éric Pin, Paris
Computational Complexity -- Markus Holzer, Munich
Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars -- Detlef Wotschke, Frankfurt
Patterns -- Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON
Infinite Words -- Juhani Karhumäki, Turku
Two-Dimensional Languages -- Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima
Grammars with Regulated Rewriting -- Jürgen Dassow, Magdeburg
Contextual Grammars -- Carlos Martín-Vide, Tarragona
Parallel Grammars -- Henning Fernau, Hertfordshire
Grammar Systems -- Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Budapest
Tree Automata and Tree Languages -- Magnus Steinby, Turku
Tree Transducers -- Zoltán Fülöp, Szeged
Tree Adjoining Grammars -- James Rogers, Richmond IN
Automata and Logic -- Franz Baader, Dresden
Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems -- Jetty Kleijn, Leiden
Petri Net Theory and Its Applications -- Hsu-Chun Yen, Taipeh
Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation -- Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Bremen
Restarting Automata -- Friedrich Otto, Kassel
Decision Problems of Rational Relations -- Christian Choffrut, Paris

Courses and professors 2nd term (September-December 2006)

Parameterized Complexity -- Jörg Flum, Freiburg
Formal Power Series -- Werner Kuich, Vienna
Fuzzy Formal Languages -- Claudio Moraga, Dortmund
Cellular Automata -- Martin Kutrib, Giessen
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments -- Mitsunori Ogihara, Rochester NY
Splicing Systems -- Paola Bonizzoni, Milan
Aqueous Computing -- Tom Head, Binghamton NY
Biomolecular Nanotechnology -- Max Garzon, Memphis TN
Quantum Automata -- Jozef Gruska, Brno
Unification Grammars -- Shuly Wintner, Haifa
Context-Free Grammar Parsing -- Giorgio Satta, Padua
Probabilistic Parsing -- Mark-Jan Nederhof, Groningen
Categorial Grammars -- Michael Moortgat, Utrecht
Weighted Automata -- Manfred Droste, Leipzig
Weighted Finite-State Automata -- Mehryar Mohri, New York NY
Finite State Technology for Linguistic Applications -- André Kempe, Xerox, Grenoble
Grammatical Inference -- Colin de la Higuera, Saint-Étienne
Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory -- Satoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks -- Risto Miikkulainen, Austin TX
Text Retrieval: Foundations -- Maxime Crochemore, Marne-la-Vallée
Text Retrieval: Applications -- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Barcelona
Mathematical Evolutionary Genomics -- David Sankoff, Ottawa ON
Cryptography -- Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Helsinki
String Complexity -- Lucian Ilie, London ON
Data Compression -- Wojciech Rytter, Warsaw
Image Compression -- Jarkko Kari, Turku
Algebraic Techniques in Language Theory -- Zoltán Ésik, Tarragona
Topics in Asynchronous Circuit Theory -- John Brzozowski, Waterloo ON
Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life -- Jozef Kelemen, Opava
Automata-Theoretic Techniques for Verification and Other Decision Problems -- Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara CA

Students:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the
world.  Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and
Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Logic or
Engineering) could be accepted provided they have a good undergraduate
background in discrete mathematics. At the beginning of the first
term, a few lessons on discrete mathematics advanced pre-requisites
will be offered, in order to homogenize the students' mathematical
background.

In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be
certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to
be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.

Tuition Fees:

1,700 euros in total, approximately.

Dissertation:

After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme
will have to write and defend a research project and, later, a
dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order to get
the so-called European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with
an additional mark of quality). All the professors in the programme
will be allowed to supervise students' work.

Funding:

During the teaching semesters, funding opportunities will be provided,
among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation (Becas MAEC), and by the European Commission (Alban scheme
for Latin American citizens). Additionally, the university will have a
limited amount of economic resources itself for covering the tuition
fees and full-board accommodation of a few students.

Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD
dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework
of the host research group.

Pre-Registration Procedure:

In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the
programme chairman:

* a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
* a xerocopy of the highest university education diploma,
* a xerocopy of the academic record,
* full CV,
* letters of recommendation (optional),
* any other document to prove background, interest and motivation
  (optional).

Schedule:

Announcement of the programme: August 22, 2005
Pre-registration deadline: October 31, 2005
Selection of students: November 7, 2005
Starting of the 1st term: March 27, 2006
End of the 1st term: July 24, 2006
Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 4, 2006
End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 22, 2006
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 14, 2007
DEA examination (tentative): April 27, 2008

Questions and Further Information:

Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide, at 
carlos.martin at urv.net

Postal Address:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391

Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391

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