<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">**Apologies for multiple copies**</span></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2023)</span></b><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The
18th Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2023) will be
held at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa,
Italy, on September 29th 2023, just after SPIRE, chaired by Giulio
Ermanno Pibiri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Veronica Guerrini
(University of Pisa).</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for papers</span></b><br><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">WCTA is a forum primarily intended for early-stage researchers to present their work. </span><span style="font-size:11pt">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(not including references) containing preferably unpublished work, work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.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Important dates</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> Abstract deadline: August 20th, 2023 (anywhere on Earth) </span><b>Extended to August 28th, 2023 (AoE)</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> Notification: August 29th, 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> Workshop: September 29th, 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Submission</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB">Please, submit the one-page abstract (excluding references) in PDF format via email to </span><a href="mailto:wcta2023pisa@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">wcta2023pisa@gmail.com</span></a>.<span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Invited Speaker</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB">Pierre Peterlongo, Inria Research Director (</span><a href="https://people.rennes.inria.fr/Pierre.Peterlongo/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://people.rennes.inria.fr/Pierre.Peterlongo/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Program Chairs</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Veronica Guerrini, University of Pisa</p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Please, feel free to share this call for papers with your colleagues.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">See you in Pisa!</div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Giulio and Veronica</div></div></div></div>