[CPM-SPIRE-L] SPIRE 2022: Call for Participation

[Diego Arroyuelo]

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We are glad to invite you to participate in the 29th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval -- SPIRE 2022, to be held in Concepción, Chile, November 8-10th, 2022. This year, SPIRE will run in hybrid mode (online+onsite). However, after 2 years running online, we encourage participants to attend onsite. The conference website is http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/. This year, the SPIRE program will include:

* 23 accepted papers (and their talks, see http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/#section-accepted) 
* 2 keynote speakers, Leena Salmela and Dominik Kempa (see http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/#section-speaker)
* A tutorial on graph databases by Aidan Hogan and Domagoj Vrgoč (see http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/#section-tutorial) 
* The Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms,  WCTA, chaired by Adrián Gómez Brandón and Massimiliano Rossi (see http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/wcta.html).

There will also be social activities included in the program. 

Registration is now open, see http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/index.html#section-registration 

Early bird registration: October 5, 2022.

For faster updates, follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/spire_2022 


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LOCATION
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SPIRE 2022 will be held in the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Concepción, in the city of Concepción, located next to the BioBio river and the Pacific ocean. Concepción is the second largest city in Chile and can be reached via direct flight from Santiago (about 45 minutes). Universidad de Concepción is the largest educational institution in the city, being also one of the most traditional and prestigious universities in Chile. Its beautiful campus is a touristic attraction by itself, with its famous campanil overlooking both the University and the city. The University hosts more than 20 thousand students in its three campuses, and it has become a symbol of pride for the city. Concepción is a vibrant city with many universities, shopping centers, and surrounded by beautiful nature and picturesque locations such as the Dichato beach (for swimming and seafood eating), Caleta Tumbes (with numerous seafood restaurants), Chiflón del Diablo (a former underground coal mine). Many touristic areas are also relatively close to Concepción, such as Termas de Chillán (a hot spring facility close to the Andes), Pucón (a city surrounded by several National Parks, lakes like Villarrica and Caburgua, hot springs, and the magnificent Villarrica Volcano), and Valdivia (a historical city, close to the sea and surrounded by rivers and a breathtaking natural scenery). Other touristic places in Chile (like San Pedro de Atacama, in northern Chile) can be reached via direct flight from Concepción. The conference will have a hybrid format (on-site + on-line), yet it can change to a full on-line format depending on the pandemic situation in November.


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SCOPE
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All aspects of string processing,  information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications are covered.  Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data  structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data  structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching, automata based string processing.

Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation, algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search, (micro) blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital libraries.

Computational Biology: high-throughput DNA sequencing (assembly, read alignment, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics), evolution and phylogenetics, gene and regulatory element recognition, motif finding, protein structure prediction.


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Leena Salmela, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
  TALK: De Bruijn graphs: solving biological problems in small space.

* Dominik Kempa, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. 
  TALK: LZ-End Parsing: Upper Bounds and Algorithmic Techniques

See http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/index.html#section-speaker for more details.


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COMMITTEES
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Program Committee Chairs:

* Diego Arroyuelo (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile)
* Barbara Poblete (University of Chile and Amazon, USA)


Program Committee:

* Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan University
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Northeastern University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Chile
* Hideo Bannai, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
* Altigran da Silva, Universidade Federal do Amazonas
* Antonio Fariña, University of A Coruña
* Gabriele Fici, University of Palermo
* Travis Gagie, Dalhousie University
* Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wroclaw
* Marcos Goncalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais
* Inge Li Gørtz, Technical University of Denmark
* Meng He, Dalhousie University
* Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsing Hua University
* Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University
* Dominik Köppl, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
* Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen Normandy
* Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona
* Felipe A. Louza, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
* Giovanni Manzini, University of Pisa
* Joao Meidanis, University of Campinas and Scylla Bioinformatics
* Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne
* Viviane P. Moreira, Instituto de Informatica - UFRGS
* Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile
* Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa
* Solon Pissis, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
* Nicola Prezza, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
* Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki
* Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester
* Kunihiko Sadakane, The University of Tokyo
* Srinivasa Rao Satti, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* Marinella Sciortino, University of Palermo
* Diego Seco, University of A Coruña
* Sharma V. Thankachan, University of Central Florida
* Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa
* Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Organizing Committee:

* José Fuentes-Sepúlveda (University of Concepción and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile)
* Cecilia Hernández (University of Concepción and Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering)

Steering Committee:

* Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Northeastern University, USA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and University of Chile)
* Christina Boucher (University of Florida, USA)
* Nieves R. Brisaboa (University of A Coruña, Spain)
* Thierry Lecroq (University of Rouen Normandy, France)
* Simon J. Puglisi, (University of Helsinki, Finland)
* Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) 
* Sharma Thankachan (University of Central Florida, USA)
* Hélène Touzet (CNRS, Lille, France)
* Nivio Ziviani (Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil)


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Tutorial on Graph Databases
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Speakers:
* Aidan Hogan (University of Chile and Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile)
* Domagoj Vrgoč (University of Zagreb, Croatia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile)

Date: TBA.  

See the website for more details (http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/#section-tutorial).


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CONTACT
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For more information about the conference, please contact the local organization at spire2022 at inf.udec.cl.