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Workshop on Words and Automata St Petersburg (Russia), June 7th, 2006 A Satellite Workshop to the International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR'06) |
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The workshop will be held in St Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics (PDMI) 
located at 27 Fontanka (this is where Fontanka river crosses Nevskiy prospekt, see the map), room 208 |
PROGRAM
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION (room 201) |
| 09:00-10:15 | First Session. Chair: Anna Frid |
| 09:00-09:05 | Opening |
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09:10-09:50 |
Invited talk: Jean Berstel (Université de Marne-la-Vallee, France), Crochemore factorization of Sturmian and other infinite words (joint work with Alessandra Savelli) |
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9:55-10:15 |
Gwénaël Richomme and Francis Wlazinski, Existence of finite test-sets for k-powerfreeness of uniform morphisms |
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10:15-10:40 |
Coffee break |
| 10:40-12:00 | Second Session. Chair: Mikhail Volkov |
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10:40-11:00 |
Volker Diekert, Tero Harju and Dirk Nowotka, Factorizations of cyclic words |
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11:05-11:25 |
Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia and Antonio Restivo, On ambiguity of two-dimensional languages |
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11:30-12:00 |
Pascal Ochem and Tony Reix, Upper bound on the number of ternary square-free words [Cancelled] Roman Kolpakov, On the number of repetition-free words |
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12:00-13:40 |
Lunch break (Lunch will be served at 12:20 in Bogart's Cafe, Malaya Konyushennaya st. 14/19) |
| 13:40-16:00 | Third Session. Chair: Jean Berstel |
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13:40-14:20 |
Invited talk: Sergey Avgustinovich (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia), Some open problems on factorial languages |
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14:25-14:45 |
Akim Demaille, Sylvain Lombardy and Jacques Sakarovitch, Weighted automata and transducers in Vaucanson |
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14:50-15:10 |
George Rahonis and Manfred Droste, Weighted automata and weighted logics |
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15:15-15:35 |
Greg Budzban and Philip Feinsilver, A vector space approach to the road coloring problem |
| 15:40-16:00 | Thierry Monteil, Estimating the number of ergodic measures of a minimal subshift knowing the geometry of its Rauzy graphs |
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16:00-16:20 |
Coffee break |
| 16:20-18:00 | Student Session. Chair: Sergey Avgustinovich |
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16:20-16:30 |
Thomas Fernique, Substitutions of stepped surfaces |
| 16:35-16:45 | Yuri Pritykin, Strongly almost periodic sequences, finite automata and algorithmic undecidability |
| 16:50-17:00 | Petr Ambroz, Palindromic complexity of infinite words associated with simple Parry numbers (joint work with C. Frougny, Z. Masakova and E. Pelantova) |
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17:05-17:15 |
Pavel Martyugin, Lower bounds for length of carefully synchronizing words |
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17:20-17:30 |
Adam Roman, Synchronization of finite automaton. Computations for different alphabet sizes |
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17:35-17:45 |
Yulia Zaks, Synchronizing automata with a letter of deficiency 2 (joint work with D. Ananichev and M. Volkov) |
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17:50-18:00 |
Ilya Petrov, Mirror images of 2-synchronizing words |
| 18:00-20:00 | CSR-2006 REGISTRATION (room 201) AND WELCOMING RECEPTION (next to room 208) |