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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2022)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">The 17th Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2022) (</span><a href="http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/wcta"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/wcta</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)
will be held</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> in Concepción, Chile, on November 11,
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">the day after SPIRE’22 (</span><a href="http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">),
chaired by Adrián Gómez Brandón and Massimiliano Rossi. WCTA is a forum primarily for early-stage researchers to present their work; there are no published proceedings so the results presented can also be submitted to most other workshops and conferences.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"><span> </span>We encourage junior members of our community to submit a one-page abstract (not including
references) containing preferably unpublished work, work in progress, surveys of interest, and open problems, among others. WCTA has no published proceedings, so the results presented can also be submitted to other workshops and conferences. Due to the current
circumstances, WCTA will be held both in-person and online.</span></p>
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deadline: October 3rd, 2022 (anywhere on Earth)</span></p>
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October 10th, 2022</span></p>
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November 11th, 2022</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Scholarships for the in-person registration at SPIRE will be available for students with accepted abstracts in WCTA. For application, please fill the following form:
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/jxqYZVcYwBUXnSeH8"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://forms.gle/jxqYZVcYwBUXnSeH8</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">.
The deadline for grant applications is October 3rd, 2022 (anywhere on Earth) and the notifications will be sent out on October 10th, 2022. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Adrián Gómez Brandón, Universidade da Coruña. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Massimiliano Rossi, Illumina Inc.</span></p>
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<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Please, submit the abstract in PDF format via EasyChair at
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic">(</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcta2022"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcta2022</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic">)</span></p>
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<span> </span>For more information about the workshop, please send an email at
<a href="mailto:wcta2022@easychair.org" title="mailto:wcta2022@easychair.org">wcta2022@easychair.org</a></div>
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