<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">[Apologies for cross-postings]</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Last Call for Participation - SPIRE 2017</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">SPIRE 2017</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">24th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">September 26th-29th, 2017, Palermo,Italy</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">- Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza Università di Roma)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">- Moshe Lewenstein (Bar Ilan University)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">- Stéphane Vialette (CNRS & Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ACCEPTED PAPERS</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#accepted_papers" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#accepted_papers</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">REGISTRATION</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#registration" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#registration</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">*** Late Registration Deadline: September 11th, 2017 ***</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">VENUE</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#location_and_venue" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#location_and_venue</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Palermo is a city of Southern Italy. The city is noted for its history,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">culture, architecture and gastronomy. Palermo is located in the </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">the Mediterranean sea. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The conference will be held at Eurostars Centrale Palace**** hotel, located </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">just near the Quattro Canti square (at the crossing of the main streets of </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Palermo historical center: via Maqueda and via Vittorio Emanuele). The square </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">is at the core of the UNESCO’s World Heritage "Arab-Norman Palermo </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale".</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">SOCIAL EVENT</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://cefalu.it/" class="">https://cefalu.it/</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In the afternoon of Wednesday, September 27th, there will be a visit of the </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">beautiful town of Cefalù, with its old Cathedral and its beautiful sandy beach.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The social dinner as well will take place in Cefalù.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">WORKSHOP</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/wcta.html" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/wcta.html</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The 12th Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">will be held on September 29th, 2017 (in the same hotel of the main conference)</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div></body></html>