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************************************************************************************</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In conjunction with the 36th Annual Symposium on
Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), which will take place at the University
of Milano-Bicocca (Milan) from June 17 to 19, 2025, a two-day <b>PhD Summer
School on String Algorithms</b> will be held on June 12–13.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The event will be held in person from 2:00 PM on
June 12 to 5:00 PM on June 13, in the ABACUS Building (U14 Building) of the
University of Milano-Bicocca. Please note that online participation is not
available and lectures will not be recorded.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The school is intended for MSc and PhD students,
and assumes a general background in algorithms and algorithm analysis. Senior
researchers are also welcome to join.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hideo Bannai (Institute of Science,
Tokyo)<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dictionary
Compression and Repetitiveness Measures</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jonas Ellert (École Normale
Supérieure, Paris)<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Approximate Pattern Matching 101</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Giulia Punzi (University of Pisa)<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Exploring the Relationships between
Graph and String Problems</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p>

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Please register before June 10 at <a href="https://framaforms.org/cpm-2025-summer-school-1743617612" target="_blank">this link</a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p>

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