Program


Tuesday, June 20
Social Event
17:30 - 19:30 Reception at Ramada Palm hotel
Wednesday, June 21
09:00 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Invited talk
L. Hemaspaandra
The consequences of eliminating NP solutions
10:30 - 11:00 M. Domaratzki, K. Salomaa
Transition complexity of language operations
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Y. Gao, K. Salomaa, S. Yu
State complexity of star of catenation and reversal
12:00 - 12:30 Y. Han, K. Salomaa, D. Wood
State complexity of prefix-free regular languages
12:30 - 13:00 B. Cordy, K. Salomaa
Regular approximations of non-regular languages
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Invited talk
L. Longpré
Measuring privacy loss in statistical databases
15:30 - 15:50 B. Cloteaux, D. Ranjan
Some separation results between classes of pointer algorithms
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:50 F. Biegler, M. Burrell, M. Daley
Regulated RNA rewriting: modelling RNA editing with guided insertion
16:50 - 17:50 Business meeting
Social Event
18:00 - 22:00 Excursion (White Sands National Monument)



Thursday, June 22
9:30 - 10:30 Invited talk
J. Shallit
New directions in state complexity
10:30 - 11:00 F. Biegler, I. McQuillan, K. Salomaa
An infinite hierarchy induced by depth synchronization
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 M. Almeida, N. Moreira, R. Reis
Aspects of enumeration and generation with a string automata representation
12:00 - 12:30 J. Dassow, G. Vaszil
On the number of active symbols in Lindenmayer systems
12:30 - 12:50 J. Dassow, B. Truthe
On the degree complexity of special non-context-free languages with respect to PC grammar systems
Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 C. Mereghetti, B. Palano
Quantum automata for some multiperiodic languages
15:00 - 15:30 M. Holzer, M. Kutrib
The size of Higman-Haines sets
15:30 - 16:00 F. Niessner, U. Ultes-Nitsche
A complete characterisation of deterministic regular liveness properties
Social Event
16:15 - 18:00 visit to historic Mesilla Plaza
18:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner



Friday, June 23
9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk
A. Malcher
Cellular automata and descriptional complexity
10:00 - 10:20 H. Gruber, M. Holzer
Results on the average state and transition complexity of finite automata accepting finite languages
10:20 - 10:40 C. Câmpeanu, A. Paun, J.R. Smith
Tight bounds for the state complexity of deterministic cover automata
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40 A. Cherubini, A. Kisielewicz
Recognizing collapsing words is co-NP-complete
11:40 - 12:00 J. Kupke
A powerful tool in lower-bounding constantly ambiguous automata
12:00 - 12:20 R. Freund
Special variants of P systems with one catalyst in one membrane
12:20 - 12:40 R. Freund, M. Oswald
A small universal antiport P system with forbidden context
Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 T. Ahmed, G. Grahne
Parallel composition of finite state activity automata
15:00 - 15:30 J. Kavitha, L. Jeganathan, G. Sethuraman
Descriptional complexity of alternating finite automata
15:30 - 16:00 H. Chen, M. Ionescu, A. Paun, G. Paun, B. Popa
On trace languages generated by (small) spiking neural P systems
Closing