From fernau at uni-trier.de  Sun May  3 12:17:17 2026
From: fernau at uni-trier.de (Fernau, Henning, Univ.-Prof. Dr.)
Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 19:17:17 +0000
Subject: [CPM-SPIRE-L] MCU 2026: Final Call for Papers (Machines,
 Computations and Universality in Trier, Germany)
Message-ID: <30563e4aa012451080967aea0363ccf6@uni-trier.de>

This conference series focuses on investigating language describing formalisms (automata, grammars, etc.) that are equivalent to Turing machines (or close to being it). The International conference series MCU traces its roots back to the mid 1990's, and has always been concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of computation and universality. The 11th edition of this conference will take place in Trier during 27.7-29.7.2026.

In 2026, MCU is colocated with CiE and other meetings like CCA and GSW; check out our webpage www.mcu-2026.uni-trier.de.

Deadline for submissions: May 10th AoE, 2026

Submissions server: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2026

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference with published proceedings. We expect non-anonymous submissions up to 15 pages in LNCS format, including ?everything? apart from a possible appendix (read at the discretion of the PC); alternatively, include a link to an ArXiv version.

Author notification: June 15th, 2026

Program Chairs

  *   Henning Fernau, Trier University, Germany

  *   Serghei Verlan, University Paris Est Cr?teil, LACL, France

What is special about this edition? It is co-located with CiE<http://www.cie-2026.uni-trier.de/> and other conferences and workshops.

 Invited Speakers

  *   Martin Kutrib (Gie?en, Germany)

  *   Olivier Bournez (Paris, France): he will give a tutorial at CiE.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

  *   Analog computation

  *   Automata theory

  *   Cellular automata

  *   Classical computability and degree structures

  *   Computability theoretic aspects of programs

  *   Computable structures and models

  *   Continuous computing

  *   Decidability of theories

  *   DNA computing, self-assembly and tiling

  *   Dynamical systems and computational models

  *   Emerging and non-standard models of computation

  *   Finite model theory

  *   Generalized recursion theory

  *   Higher type computability

  *   Hyper-computational models

  *   Infinite time Turing machines

  *   Membrane computing

  *   Molecular computation

  *   Morphogenesis and developmental biology

  *   Multi-agent systems models

  *   Natural computation and hybrid systems

  *   Neural nets and connectionist models

  *   Physics and computability

  *   Proof theory and computability

  *   Quantum computing and information

  *   Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity

  *   Relativistic computation

  *   Swarm intelligence and self-organisation

  *   Theory of Petri nets

  *   Turing, Counter, Register, Signal machines

  *   Universality of systems


Program Committee

  *   Artiom Alhazov (Chisinau, Moldova)

  *   P?ter Batty?nyi (Debrecen, Hungary)

  *   Song Bosheng (Hunan, China)

  *   Olivier Bournez (Paris, France)

  *   Erzs?bet Csuhaj-Varj? (Budapest, Hungary)

  *   J?r?me Durand-Lose (Orl?ans, France)

  *   Rudi Freund (Vienna, Austria)

  *   Daniela Genova (North Florida, USA)

  *   Dora Giammarresi (Rome, Italy)

  *   Mika Hirvensalo (Turku, Finland)

  *   Jarkko Kari (Turku, Finland)

  *   Lila Kari (Waterloo, Canada)

  *   Tomas Masopust (Olomouc, Czech Republic)

  *   Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, Cyprus)

  *   Matthew Patitz (Rio Grande Valley, USA)

  *   Simon Perdrix (Vand?uvre l?s Nancy, France)

  *   Agust?n Riscos-N?nez (Sevilla, Spain)

  *   Shinnosuke Seki (Tokyo, Japan)

  *   KG Subramanian (Chennai, India)

  *   Gy?rgy Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary)

  *   Tomoyuki Yamakami (Fukui, Japan)

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From mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca  Fri May  8 08:27:32 2026
From: mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca (Nadia El-Mabrouk)
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 15:27:32 +0000
Subject: [CPM-SPIRE-L] REMINDER : Submission deadline approaching for 26th
 WABI 2026 Conference on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
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26th WABI Conference on Algorithms in Bioinformatics


University of L?Aquila, Italy, August 31 - September 2, 2026



https://algo-conference.org/2026/wabi/

#### SCOPE



WABI is an international conference covering research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that provide evidence of their potential usefulness in practice, preferably by testing on appropriately chosen simulated or real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.

#### IMPORTANT DATES




 * 

**Paper submission deadline:**




     * 

**Abstract deadline: May 11, 2026 (AoE) Monday**


     * 

**Full paper deadline: May 14, 2026 (AoE) Thursday**




 * 

Author notifications: June 25, 2026


 * 

Camera ready versions of accepted papers due: July 2, 2026



### PAPER SUBMISSION



Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the LIPIcs style and must not exceed 15 pages excluding the front page (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ?), references and a brief appendix (of up to 5 pages). For details please see the information for authors https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author.



Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers. All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair submission system, at:



https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi202 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2025 6



For scientific information, please contact one of the WABI program committee co-chairs, Nadia El-Mabrouk (mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca mailto:mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca ) or Fabio Vandin (fabio.vandin at unipd.it mailto:fabio.vandin at unipd.it ). For additional organizational information, please refer to the ALGO 2026 website https://algo-conference.org/2026/ , or contact the local organizers at algo2026 at univaq.onmicrosoft.com mailto:algo2026 at univaq.onmicrosoft.com .



An abstract of the paper must be received in EasyChair by May 11, 2026 (AoE) in order for your submission to be considered. Submission of full versions for already submitted papers will be possible until May 14, 2026 (AoE). Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings. Depositing in arxiv.org http://arxiv.org/  or biorxiv.org http://biorxiv.org/  is encouraged.



By submitting a paper, the authors acknowledge that, in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register for WABI 2026 and present the paper.



Accepted papers will be published in the WABI proceedings in the LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/ .



Selected papers will be invited for an extended publication in a thematic series in Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB) http://almob.biomedcentral.com/ .

## Paper submission



You can submit your work to WABI here https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2026 .

Nadia El-Mabrouk and Fabio Vandin




Nadia El-Mabrouk
Professeure titulaire
Responsable des ?tudes sup?rieures
D?partement d'informatique et de recherche op?rationnelle (DIRO)
Universit? de Montr?al
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From solon.pissis at cwi.nl  Mon May 11 06:01:19 2026
From: solon.pissis at cwi.nl (Solon P Pissis)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:01:19 +0300
Subject: [CPM-SPIRE-L] PhD position at The Cyprus Institute (String and
 Graph Algorithms with Applications)
Message-ID: <a556cbd4-1a1b-4505-9067-d30f7f87c271@cwi.nl>

Dear colleagues,

I am currently seeking a PhD student to join my group at The Cyprus 
Institute, working on String and Graph Algorithms with Applications.

Further details about the position and how to apply can be found here:
https://www.cyi.ac.cy/education/prospective-students/financial-support/phd-in-computational-sciences-string-and-graph-algorithms-with-applications

The application deadline is June 1, 2026, though the portal will remain 
open until the position is filled. Please feel free to reach out to me 
directly with any questions.

Best regards,
Solon Pissis

-- 
Solon P. Pissis, Ph.D

Associate Professor
Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC)
The Cyprus Institute
Nicosia, Cyprus

Email: s.pissis at cyi.ac.cy
WWW:   https://solon-pissis.github.io/


From mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca  Mon May 11 12:44:13 2026
From: mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca (Nadia El-Mabrouk)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 19:44:13 +0000
Subject: [CPM-SPIRE-L] DEADLINE EXTENSION : 26th WABI 2026 Conference on
 Algorithms in Bioinformatics
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References: <d0177ec5e21d3c8392a5d83e8f1c59efe532496b@iro.umontreal.ca>
 <bb01741c8bcc236acdb0b363ff83e9ce2fbedcc3@iro.umontreal.ca>
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26th WABI Conference on Algorithms in Bioinformatics




University of L?Aquila, Italy, August 31 - September 2, 2026



https://algo-conference.org/2026/wabi/

Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended as follows:






     * 

**Abstract deadline:?**May 11, 2026?**? ? ****Thursday?****May?****14, 2026 (AoE)?**


     * 

**Full paper deadline: **May 14, 2026**? Thursday?May 21, 2026 (AoE)?**






Nadia El-Mabrouk and Fabio Vandin,
the WABI program committee co-chairs

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE


WABI is an international conference covering research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that provide evidence of their potential usefulness in practice, preferably by testing on appropriately chosen simulated or real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.

#### IMPORTANT DATES




 * 

**Paper submission deadline:**




     * 

**Abstract deadline:?**May 11, 2026?**? ? May?****14, 2026 (AoE) Monday**


     * 

**Full paper deadline: **May 14, 2026**? May 21, 2026 (AoE) Thursday**




 * 

Author notifications: June 25, 2026


 * 

Camera ready versions of accepted papers due: July 2, 2026?



### PAPER SUBMISSION



Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the LIPIcs style and must not exceed 15 pages excluding the front page (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ?), references and a brief appendix (of up to 5 pages). For details please see the information for authors https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author.



Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers. All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair submission system, at:



https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi202 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2025 6



For scientific information, please contact one of the WABI program committee co-chairs, Nadia El-Mabrouk (mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca mailto:mabrouk at iro.umontreal.ca ) or Fabio Vandin (fabio.vandin at unipd.it mailto:fabio.vandin at unipd.it ). For additional organizational information, please refer to the ALGO 2026 website https://algo-conference.org/2026/ , or contact the local organizers at algo2026 at univaq.onmicrosoft.com mailto:algo2026 at univaq.onmicrosoft.com .



An abstract of the paper must be received in EasyChair by May 11, 2026 (AoE) in order for your submission to be considered. Submission of full versions for already submitted papers will be possible until May 14, 2026 (AoE). Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings. Depositing in arxiv.org http://arxiv.org/  or biorxiv.org http://biorxiv.org/  is encouraged.



By submitting a paper, the authors acknowledge that, in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register for WABI 2026 and present the paper.



Accepted papers will be published in the WABI proceedings in the LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/ .



Selected papers will be invited for an extended publication in a thematic series in Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB) http://almob.biomedcentral.com/ .

## Paper submission



You can submit your work to WABI here https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2026 .

Nadia El-Mabrouk and Fabio Vandin,
the WABI program committee co-chairs


Nadia El-Mabrouk
Professeure titulaire
Responsable des ?tudes sup?rieures
D?partement d'informatique et de recherche op?rationnelle (DIRO)
Universit? de Montr?al
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