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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/LSD&LAW18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>LSD
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>London, UK February 8-9, 2018</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Algorithms & Bioinformatics group at King's college invites well renowned
researchers, doctoral and post-doctoral students to submit abstracts to present their work at the 26th London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop, sponsored by the Department of Informatics at King’s College London and the London Mathematical Society.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Aims:</b></span></font><br style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The workshop aims to bring together researchers to discuss their latest developments and findings towards theoretical or applied aspects of discrete algorithms,
including string algorithms, automata theory, </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">combinatorics on words, Bioinformatics, graph and network algorithms and computational complexity.</span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>AlgoUK:</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">King's College will also be hosting the first network workshop </span></font><a href="http://algorithms.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">AlgoUK</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
from 6-7 February 2018, co-located with LSD & LAW 2018.</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Venue:</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">LSD & LAW 2018 will take place in King’s College London, situated in the heart of London: River Room, Strand campus (Strand, London WC2R 2LS).</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Scope:</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></font>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">String Algorithms</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Automata Theory</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Combinatorics on Words</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bioinformatics</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Graph and Network Algorithms</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Computational Complexity</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Structure:</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each session of this two-day workshop will feature an invited talk, followed by oral presentations by researchers. Breaks will provide the opportunity to network;
lunch will be hosted in a local restaurant.</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></font>
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<li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/grossi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Roberto
Grossi</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">University of Pisa, Italy.</span></font><font face="LiberationSans,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> "Combining strings and graphs for subgraph similarity"</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://kadm.imkn.urfu.ru/pages.php?id=shureng" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Arseny
Shur</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg,
Russia.</span></font><font face="LiberationSans,serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> "Make Pals Your Pals: Fast Algorithms for Problems Related to Palindromes”</span></font></span></font></div>
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<li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.di.ens.fr/TatianaStarikovskaya.html.en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tatiana
Starikovskaya</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eěcole normale supeěrieure, France.</span></font><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> "Streaming and property testing algorithms for string processing"</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We invite participants to submit abstracts to be considered for oral presentations
by 8th January 2018, using this form: </span></font><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeysKpO5rEyUhhDRIW5pLJschkJxQfhS9PVHRz-GPYgqC6GOA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Abstract
submission</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Special Issue:</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers to a special issue
of </span></font><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-computation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Information and Computation</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Registration is free; please sign up using the following form: </span></font><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZEo9eWBclWqOWoUhswcsMuEJ3bN1glxib9P0jVMFSLwqZWg/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Registration
Form</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#00000A"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Deadlines:</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Abstract Submission: 8th January 2018. </span></font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Registration: 8th January 2018.</span></font><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mai Alzamel (co-Chair)</span></font><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Miznah Alshammari</span></font><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lorraine Ayad (co-Chair)</span></font><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Costas S. Iliopoulos</span></font><br>
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Solon P. Pissis</span></font><br>
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</span></font><a href="mailto:mai.alzamel@kcl.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">mai.alzamel@kcl.ac.uk</span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#0066CC"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="mailto:lorraine.ayad@kcl.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">lorraine.ayad@kcl.ac.uk</span></font></a><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/LSD&LAW18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">LSD
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