Visitors from more than 20 countries are expected to attend the International Conference on the Developments in Language Theory at The University of Western Ontario Aug. 17-20.
The 14th annual event is one of the most important conferences in language theory in the world and it is the first time the conference has been held in Canada. It is organized by the Department of Computer Science and chaired by Computer Science professor Sheng Yu.
Western President Amit Chakma will provide the welcoming speech at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 17.
More than 100 people are expected to participate, many of whom are among the top researchers in language theory in the world.
Among the invited speakers are Dora Giammarresi (Rome), Markus Holzer (Giessen), Oscar Ibarra (Santa Barbara, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science), Lila Kari (Western), Michel Rigo (Liege), and Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical Computer Science).
The research topics include:
Grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, trees and graphs; Algebraic theories of automata; codes; symbolic dynamics;
Algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; Decidability questions; Applications of language theory, including: natural computing, image manipulation and compression, text algorithms, cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory and logic; Cellular automata and multidimensional patterns; Language theory aspects of quantum computing and bio-computing.
The Developments in Language Theory conference is under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
More information is available at https://www.csd.uwo.ca/DLT2010/.