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September 18th-21st, 2023, the 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2023 will take place in Trier, Germany. For updated information, see the conference webpage:
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<span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: transparent">Submission
server has opened: </span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a href="https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/FCT2023"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: transparent">https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/FCT2023</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Full versions of some selected papers will be invited for a Special Issue with Journal of Computer and System Sciences.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">We have fixed the submission dates at the end of May, 2023; details below.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Four invited speakers have confirmed their participation, details below.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Publication of conference proceedings as an LNCS volume of the ARCoSS subline approved by Springer.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">There will be a best paper and a best student paper award sponsored by Springer.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Karl Bringmann, MPI Saarbrücken, Germany</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Stefan Glock, Univ. Passau, Germany</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Lila Kari, Univ. Waterloo, Canada</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Claire Mathieu, Univ. Sorbonne Paris, CNRS, France</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">May 26th, 2023: Abstract submission deadline</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">June 1st, 2023: Paper submission deadline</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">July 17th, 2023: Author notifications</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">July 24th, 2023: Final papers due</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">September 18th-21st, 2023: FCT conference dates</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">University of Trier, Campus 1</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Akanksha Agrawal, IITM Chennai, India</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Evripidis Bampis, Sorbonne Univ., France</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Hans Bodlaender, Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Ahmed Bouajjani, Univ. Paris Diderot, France</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Bogdan Chlebus, Augusta Univ., USA</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. Bologna, Italy</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Vida Dujmovic, Univ. Ottawa, Canada</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Leah Epstein, Univ. Haifa, Israel</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Piotr Faliszewski, AGH Univ. Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Henning Fernau, Univ. Trier, Germany (co-chair)</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Robert Ganian, TU Vienna, Austria</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Klaus Jansen, Univ. Kiel, Germany (co-chair)</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Artur Je¿, Univ. Wroc³aw, Poland</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Mamadou Kanté, Univ. Clermont Auvergne, France</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Jan Kratochvíl, Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Republic</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Florin Manea, Univ. Göttingen, Germany</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Tomá¹ Masopust, Palacky Univ. Olomouc, Czech Republic</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Matthias Mnich, TU Hamburg, Germany</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Yoshio Okamoto, Univ. Electro-Commun., Japan</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Sang-il Oum, Univ. Daejeon, South Korea</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Kenta Ozeki, Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Uéverton Souza, Univ. Federal Fluminense, Brazil</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Frank Stephan, NUS, Singapore</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">José Verschae, Univ. Santiago, Chile</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Boting Yang, Univ. Regina, Canada</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Guochuan Zhang, Univ. Zhejiang, China</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Binhai Zhu, Montana State Univ., USA</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Algorithmic Game Theory, Complexity of Games</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Algorithmic Learning Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Algorithmic Randomness</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Algorithms and Data Structures</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Algorithms for Big Data</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Approximation Algorithms</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Automata Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Average-Case Analysis</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Combinatorial Generation, Enumeration and Counting</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Combinatorial Optimization</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Combinatorial Reconfiguration</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Combinatorics of Words</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Complexity Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Computable Analysis</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Computational Geometry</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Computational Learning Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Data Compression</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Database Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Discrete Optimization</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Distributed, Parallel and Network Algorithms</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Fine-grained Complexity</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Parameterized Complexity</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Probabilistic and Randomized Algorithms</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Scheduling</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">String Algorithms</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Theorem Provers and Automated Reasoning</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Voting Theory</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Width Parameters</span></font></font></font></p>
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