LATA 2020: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2020 Milan, Italy March 4-6, 2020 Co-organized by: Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca and Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels/London https://lata2020.irdta.eu ************************************************************************* PROGRAM Wednesday, March 4 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Eric Allender. The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization - Invited lecture 10:30 - 10:50 Break 10:50 - 12:05 Dmitry Berdinsky and Prohrak Kruengthomya. Nonstandard Cayley Automatic Representations for Fundamental Groups of Torus Bundles over the Circle Alexis Bes and Christian Choffrut. Deciding (R,+,<,1) in (R,+,<,Z) Ziyuan Gao, Sanjay Jain, Ji Qi, Philipp Schlicht, Frank Stephan and Jacob Tarr. Ordered Semiautomatic Rings with Applications to Geometry 12:05 - 13:35 Lunch 13:35 - 14:25 Laure Daviaud. Containment and Equivalence of Weighted Automata: Probabilistic and Max-Plus Cases - Invited lecture 14:25 - 14:45 Break 14:45 - 16:00 Siddharth Bhaskar, Jane Chandlee, Adam Jardine and Christopher Oakden. Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes as a Logical Characterization of the Subsequential Functions Susanna Donatelli and Serge Haddad. Expressiveness and Conciseness of Timed Automata for the Verification of Stochastic Models Mehmet Utkan Gezer. Windable Heads & Recognizing NL with Constant Randomness 16:00 - 16:20 Break 16:20 - 17:35 Chris Keeler and Kai Salomaa. Alternating Finite Automata with Limited Universal Branching Nadia Labai, Tomer Kotek, Magdalena Ortiz and Helmut Veith. Pebble-intervals Automata and FO2 with Two Orders Ahmet Bilal Uçan. Limited Two-way Deterministic Finite Automata with Advice 17:35 - 19:35 Touristic visit --- Thursday, March 5 09:00 - 09:50 Christoph Haase. Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:10 Break 10:10 - 11:25 Kazuyuki Amano. On the Size of Depth-two Threshold Circuits for the Inner Product mod 2 Function Riccardo Dondi, Giancarlo Mauri and Italo Zoppis. Complexity Issues of String to Graph Approximate Matching Hans Zantema. Complexity of Automatic Sequences 11:25 - 11:45 Break and Group photo 11:45 - 12:35 Aaron Lye. Context-sensitive Fusion Grammars Are Universal Alexander Okhotin and Alexey Sorokin. Cyclic Shift on Multi-component Grammars 12:35 - 14:05 Lunch 14:05 - 14:55 Artur Jez. Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data - Invited lecture 14:55 - 15:15 Break 15:15 - 16:30 Olivier Finkel. The Automatic Baire Property and an Effective Property of omega-Rational Functions Nathan Grosshans. The Power of Programs over Monoids in J Ondrej Klíma and Peter Kostolányi. Geometrically Closed Positive Varieties of Star-free Languages 16:30 - 16:50 Break 16:50 - 18:05 Tomoyuki Yamakami. Intersection and Union Hierarchies of Deterministic Context-free Languages and Pumping Lemmas Vikraman Arvind, Frank Fuhlbrück, Johannes Koebler and Oleg Verbitsky. On the Weisfeiler-Leman Dimension of Fractional Packing Jing Ji and Jeffrey Heinz. Input Strictly Local Tree Transducers 18:05 - 19:15 Reception --- Friday, March 6 09:00 - 09:50 Jean-Éric Pin. How to Prove that a Language is Regular or Star-free? - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:10 Break 10:10 - 11:25 Paola Bonizzoni, Clelia De Felice, Rocco Zaccagnino and Rosalba Zizza. Lyndon Words versus Inverse Lyndon Words: Queries on Suffixes and Bordered Words Jeffery Dick, Laura Hutchinson, Robert Mercas and Daniel Reidenbach. Reducing the Ambiguity of Parikh Matrices Pamela Fleischmann, Dirk Nowotka, Mitja Kulczynski and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen. On Collapsing Prefix Normal Words 11:25 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 12:35 Aaron Moss. Simplified Parsing Expression Derivatives Jean Néraud. Complete Variable-length Codes: An Excursion into Word Edit Operations 12:35 - 14:05 Lunch 14:05 - 14:55 Thomas Place. Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: The Covering Approach - Invited lecture 14:55 - 15:05 Closing