<html><body><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025) will be held in Milan, Italy, on June 17-19, 2025.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://cpm2025.</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">pangenome.eu</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">will take place in Milan in the campus of the University of Milano-Bicocca located in the Bicocca District that hosts the Arcimboldi Theater and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(59, 59, 59); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pirelli HangarBicocca, the largest single-level exhibition space in Europe</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">CPM aims to provide an international forum for research in combinatorial pattern matching and related applications such as computational biology, data compression and data mining, coding, information retrieval, natural language processing, and image processing (i.e. 2D strings). CPM is considered to be the leading conference for the community working on Stringology.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">[Keynote speakers]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Locally Sensitive Hashing and Compressed Computation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicola Prezza (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Suffixient Arrays: a new Efficient Suffix Array and Compression Technique</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Kunihiko Sadakane (Tokyo, University, Japan)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Compressed Suffix Arrays and Suffix Trees Revisited</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">[Highlight talks]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Michal Kouck</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">ý </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(presenting a paper from</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> STOC 2024)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">David Koslicki </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(presenting a paper from</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> RECOMB 2025)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">ACCEPTED PAPERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu/p/accepted_papers/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu/p/accepted_papers/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">EVENTS co-located with CPM 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">SUMMER SCHOOL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The Summer school is before the conference on June 12 and June 13</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">[Speakers]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hideo Bannai (Kyushu University, Fukuoka)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Jonas Ellert (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">École Normale Supérieure, Paris)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Giulia Punzi (University of Pisa)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">STRING MASTERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop is before and after the conference on June 16 and June 20</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">REGISTRATION</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu/p/registration/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu/p/registration/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Deadlines:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">*Early registration deadline: May 20, 2025* regular: 380€, student: 250€</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">*Late registration deadline: June 12, 2025* regular: 450€, student: 330€</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">SPONSORS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We thank our sponsors:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">- PANGAIA: Pangenome Graph Algorithms and Data Integration, Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchange programme N. 872539,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">- PINC: Pangenome Informatics: from Theory to Applications, MIUR 2022YRB97K </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></b><br style="text-decoration:none"><br><br></div></body></html>