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> Program

> Sunday, August 24
> 15:00> 19:00> Registration

> Monday, August 25
> 7:00> 9:00> Registration
> Queries
> 9:00> 9:30> Complexity of Data Tree Patterns over XML Documents
Claire David
> 9:30> 10:00> Optimizing Conjunctive Queries over Trees using Schema Information
Henrik Björklund, Wim Martens and Thomas Schwentick
> 10:00> 10:30> Smoothed Analysis of Binary Search Trees and Quicksort under Additive Noise
Bodo Manthey and Till Tantau
> 10:30> 11:00> Coffee Break
> Cryptography
> 11:00> 11:30> Sincere-Strategy Preference-Based Approval Voting Broadly Resists Control
Gábor Erdélyi, Markus Nowak and Jörg Rothe
> 11:30> 12:00> Step-out Ring Signatures
Marek Klonowski, £ukasz Krzywiecki, Miros³aw Kuty³owski and Anna Lauks
> 12:00> 12:10> Cigarette Break
> Invited Lecture by Piotr Sankowski
> 12:10> 13:10> Algebraic Graph Algorithms
Piotr Sankowski
> 13:10 - 15:30 free time 13:10 - 15:30
> Coloring
> 15:30> 16:00> A Note on k-colourability of P_5-free Graphs
Chinh T. Hoáng, Marcin Kamiñski, Vadim Lozin, Joe Sawada and Xiao Shu
> 16:00> 16:30> Colouring Random Empire Trees
Andrew R. McGrae and Michele Zito
> 16:30> 17:00> Coffee Break
> Languages I
> 17:00> 17:30> The Height of Factorization Forests
Manfred Kufleitner
> 17:30> 18:00> Succinctness of Regular Expressions with Interleaving, Intersection and Counting
Wouter Gelade
> 18:10 welcome party 18:10

> Tuesday, August 26
> Logic I
> 9:00> 9:30> A Complete Axiomatic System for a Process-Based Spatial Logic
Radu Mardare and Alberto Policriti
> 9:30> 10:00> Complexity and Asymptotic Density of Boolean Functions over Implication
Hervé Fournier, Daniele Gardy, Antoine Genitrini and Bernhard Gittenberger
> 10:00> 10:30> Monadic Second Order Logic on Graphs with Local Cardinality Constraints
Stefan Szeider
> 10:30> 11:00> Coffee Break
> Models
> 11:00> 11:30> Directed Percolation Arising in Stochastic Cellular Automata Analysis
Damien Regnault
> 11:30> 12:00> Computational Complexity of Perfect-Phylogeny-Related Haplotyping Problems
Michael Elberfeld and Till Tantau
> 12:00> 12:10> Cigarette Break
> Invited Lecture by Jean-Éric Pin
> 12:10> 13:10> A Robust Class of Regular Languages
Antonio Cano Gómez and Jean-Éric Pin
> 13:10 - 15:30 free time 13:10 - 15:30
> Games I
> 15:30> 16:00> When Ignorance Helps: Graphical Multicast Cost Sharing Games
Vittorio Bilo, Angelo Fanelli, Michele Flammini and Luca Moscardelli
> 16:00> 16:30> Voronoi Games on Cycle Graphs
Marios Mavronicolas, Burkhard Monien, Vicky G. Papadopoulou and Florian Schoppmann
> 16:30> 17:00> Coffee Break
> Automata and Machines I
> 17:00> 17:30> Reversal-Bounded Counter Machines Revisited
Alain Finkel and Arnaud Sangnier
> 17:30> 18:00> On the Decidability of Bounded Valuedness for Transducers
Jacques Sakarovitch and Rodrigo de Souza
> 18:30 Torunian gingerbreads in Copernicus House - Group 1

> Wednesday, August 27
> Medley
> 9:00> 9:30> On the Shortest Linear Straight-line Program for Computing Linear Forms
Joan Boyar, Philip Matthews and René Peralta
> 9:30> 10:00> Clustering with Partial Information
Hans L. Bodlaender, Michael R. Fellows, Pinar Heggernes, Federico Mancini, Charis Papadopoulos and Frances A. Rosamond
> 10:00> 10:30> A New Upper Bound for Max-2-SAT: A Graph-Theoretic Approach
Daniel Raible and Henning Fernau
> 10:30> 11:00> Coffee Break
> Logic II
> 11:00> 11:30> From Lambda Calculus to Universal Algebra and Back
Giulio Manzonetto and Antonino Salibra
> 11:30> 12:00> Short Proofs of Strong Normalization
Aleksander Wojdyga
> 12:00> 12:10> Cigarette Break
> Invited Lecture by Ursula Goltz
> 12:10> 13:10> On Synchronous and Asynchronous Interaction in Distributed Systems
Rob van Glabbeek, Ursula Goltz and Jens-Wolfhard Schicke
> 13:10 - 15:30 free time 13:10 - 15:30
> Automata and Machines II
> 15:30> 16:00> Nilpotency and Limit Sets of Cellular Automata
Pierre Guillon and Gaétan Richard
> 16:00> 16:30> Periodicity and Immortality in Reversible Computing
Jarkko Kari and Nicolas Ollinger
> 16:30> 17:00> Coffee Break
> Games II
> 17:00> 17:30> Positional Strategies for Higher-Order Pushdown Parity Games
Arnaud Carayol and Michaela Slaats
> 17:30> 18:00> Question/Answer Games on Towers and Pyramids
Sarmad Abbasi and Numan Sheikh
> 18:30 Torunian gingerbreads in Copernicus House - Group 2

> Thursday, August 28
> Approximation
> 9:00> 9:30> A 6/5-Approximation Algorithm for the Maximum 3-Cover Problem
Ioannis Caragiannis and Gianpiero Monaco
> 9:30> 10:00> Approximating Independent Set and Coloring in Random Uniform Hypergraphs
Kai Plociennik
> 10:00> 10:30> A PTAS for the Sparsest Spanners Problem on Apex-Minor-Free Graphs
Feodor F. Dragan, Fedor V. Fomin and Petr A. Golovach
> 10:30> 11:00> Coffee Break
> Circuits
> 11:00> 11:30> Lower Bounds for Syntactically Multilinear Algebraic Branching Programs
Maurice J. Jansen
> 11:30> 12:00> Arithmetic Circuits, Syntactic Multilinearity, and the Limitations of Skew Formulae
Meena Mahajan and B. V. Raghavendra Rao
> 12:00> 12:10> Cigarette Break
> Invited Lecture by Yuri Gurevich
> 12:10> 13:10> One Useful Logic That Defines Its Own Truth
Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich
> 13:10 - 15:30 free time 13:10 - 15:30
> Around NP I
> 15:30> 16:00> Computing Sharp 2-Factors in Claw-Free Graphs
Hajo Broersma and Daniël Paulusma
> 16:00> 16:30> Reoptimization of the Metric Deadline TSP
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and Dennis Komm
> 16:30> 17:00> Coffee Break
> Languages II
> 17:00> 17:30> Regional Languages and Tiling: a Unifying Approach to Picture Grammars
Alessandra Cherubini, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and Matteo Pradella
> 17:30> 18:00> A Decision Problem for Ultimately Periodic Sets in Non-standard Numeration Systems
Emilie Charlier and Michel Rigo
> 19:00 outdoor grill party 19:00

> Friday, August 29
> Geometry
> 9:00> 9:30> Resolution Width and Cutting Plane Rank are Incomparable
Mark Rhodes
> 9:30> 10:00> Combinatorial Bounds and Algorithmic Aspects of Image Matching under Projective Transformations
Christian Hundt and Maciej Li¶kiewicz
> 10:00> 10:30> Flip Algorithm for Segment Triangulations
Mathieu Brévilliers, Nicolas Chevallier and Dominique Schmitt
> 10:30> 11:00> Coffee Break
> Complexity
> 11:00> 11:30> A Random Oracle Does Not Help Extract the Mutual Information
Andrei Muchnik and Andrei Romashchenko
> 11:30> 12:00> Arthur and Merlin as Oracles
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy and Sambuddha Roy
> 12:00> 12:10> Cigarette Break
> Invited Lecture by Rastislav Královiè
> 12:10> 13:10> Deterministic Models of Communication Faults
Rastislav Královiè and Richard Královiè
> 13:10 - 15:30 free time 13:10 - 15:30
> Languages III
> 15:30> 16:00> Shortest Synchronizing Strings for Huffman Codes
Marek Biskup
> 16:00> 16:30> On a Special Class of Primitive Words
Elena Czeizler, Lila Kari and Shinnosuke Seki
> 16:30> 17:00> Coffee Break
> Around NP II
> 17:00> 17:30> The Maximum Independent Set Problem in Planar Graphs
Vladimir E. Alekseev, Vadim Lozin, Dmitriy Malyshev and Martin Milaniè
> 17:30> 18:00> Iterative Compression and Exact Algorithms
Fedor V. Fomin, Serge Gaspers, Dieter Kratsch, Mathieu Liedloff and Saket Saurabh
> the end