tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492589709683957402025-07-23T17:49:25.439+02:00Florin Maneahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502207916966498744noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349258970968395740.post-35192555161887187292018-07-14T00:00:00.068+02:002025-07-23T16:25:11.881+02:00

News: Visit the webpage of my group! Together with Annabelle McIver, I co-chair the Track B of STACS 2026. Please submit there your best papers! Together with Paweł Gawrychowski, Cristian Riveros, and Tatiana Starikovskaya, I organize a Dagstuhl Seminar: Stringology Meets Database Theory. STACS 2027 will take place in Göttingen. New DFG-grant: String Constraint Solving:

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Two new papers that I have co-authored are available on Arxiv: "Detecting Unary Patterns" (SPIRE 2017, new title: Detecting One-Variable Patterns), written together with Dmitry Kosolobov and Dirk Nowotka, proposes an efficient algorithm that locates in a text all the instances of a pattern that includes strings of letters and one-repeated variable (that can be replaced, uniformly, by any string

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In 2011 I started working in Kiel, as a researcher in the Dependable Systems Group lead by Dirk Nowotka. In 2012 I decided to stay in the same group, while working on my own DFG-funded project. Recently, my research (on algorithms and combinatorics on words) was funded for another two years by the DFG, so I will continue working in the Kiel University at least until October 31st, 2018.

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Starting 2013 I've been a member of the Computability in Europe conference series Steering Committee. This year, I was asked and I agreed to run to become Chair of this Committee. Consequently, at CiE 2016, I was elected and officially named on this position. This is a big responsibility and I hope I will be able to continue in the same line the impressive work of my predecessors, Benedikt Löwe

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Here is a short update on a series of events I was or currently am involved in. In the period October 4-10, 2016, our group is organising the Theory Days of the Automata and Formal Languages and, respectively, the Logic Group of the German Informatics Society. All the information can be found here. A major highlight of our program is the common workshop of the two groups, with five very

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10th International Conference on WORDS 2015 (the main conference dedicated to the study of combinatorics on words) takes place in Kiel from September 14 to September 17, 2015. We invite everyone who is interested in the topics and program of WORDS 2015 to register for the conference. More details are given below. IMPORTANT DATES: Starting Date of the Conference: September 14, 2pm. Ending Date

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Later update: The submission deadline was extended to March 31. The second edition of our workshop Days of Computer Science takes place as a satellite event of CiE 2015, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, on June 26 and 27, 2015. Days of Computer Science (DACS 2015) is the second edition of a workshop-series interested in building a solid and modern

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COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability, Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 3 Web-site: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/ IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Submission Deadline: 21 January 2015 Notification of authors: 9 March 2015 Deadline for final revisions: 6 April 2015 CiE 2015 is the 11-th conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians

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10th International Conference on WORDS 2015, Kiel, Germany, September 14-18, 2015 Web-site: http://words2015.uni-kiel.de/ IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: April 17, 2015 Notification of authors: May 27, 2015 Deadline for final versions: June 10, 2015 WORDS is a biannual international conference covering the mathematical theory of words (sequences of symbols) from all points of view:

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Final Update: The workshop took place on September 15 and 16, and according to the feedback we received from the participants it was successful. Thanks to all who contributed to the success of DACS 2014, and I am looking forward to the next edition. Update 2: The list of accepted papers is online. Update 1: The submission deadline for the workshop was extended to July 14, 2014, 23:59 EET.

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The deadline for this year's NCMA is just days away: May 4, 2014. Update: the deadline was extended to May 13, 2014. NCMA is the acronym of the Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications, which reaches this year its sixth edition. The workshop will take place in Kassel, in the centre of Germany, at the end of July (28,29 July 2014). As usual, we are mainly looking for works

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Computability in Europe is one of my favourite conferences: I attended the conference six times, each time having an accepted paper, and I enjoyed each of these participations a lot. Among the things I like, the mixture between theoretical computer science and mathematics comes first, but I also appreciated the very good selection of invited speakers, the special sessions, as well as the

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The year 2013 marks the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Faculty of Sciences, one of the initial three faculties of the University of Bucharest. The faculty was founded in 1863, joined the University of Bucharest in 1864 (when the University was founded), and in 1866 it was split into the Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Physical and

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The submission deadline for NCMA 2013 is next week: 26 May 2013. We are looking for papers on (but not limited to) the topics: -- formal models inspired by Linguistics, Bio-Computing, Text Processing, Document Engineering, Self-Assembly, etc., -- bio-inspired models of automata and generative devices, -- cellular automata, -- forgetting automata and restarting automata, -- automata with

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Dupa faimosul Danut Marcu, un nou scandal de plagiat are loc in Romania. Am scris ceva despre asta pe blogul infoarena.

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Just a quick reminder, for those interested. The submission deadline for NCMA 2012 is getting closer: 13 May 2012. Update: The submission deadline was moved to 29 May 2012.

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Those of you interested in submitting papers to DCM 2012 should note that the submissions deadline is one week away: 15 April 2012.

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The second workshop announced in a previous post, namely the 4th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2012), has issued its Call for Papers; the topics of interest are available on the workshop's web-page. Here is a short preview: Researchers are invited to submit papers concerning original contributions on non-classical models of automata and

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Following the announcements in the previous post, please note that the Call for Papers for the 8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models was published on the workshop's site. Here is a short preview: Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their properties, and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems: -

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This year I was invited to be part of the Program Committee of two workshops. So, I think it is a good idea to advertise them here... The first one is the 8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models, and will take place in June, in Cambridgde, as a satellite event of the Turing Centenary Conference CiE 2012. The call for papers is yet to be posted, and the important dates

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After finishing my Humboldt Research Fellowship in Magdeburg, I have decided to continue my stay in Germany. Luckily, I was offered and I accepted a temporary position (starting 1st of November) in the Computer Science Department at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, in the group of Dirk Nowotka. The main focus of my research will be in the area of algorithmic combinatorics on words,

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I think that all of us heard about the dangers of plagiarism in the scientific world, but, on the other hand, none of us really met such a case. I came across a plagiarism discussion only once (paper 17 from this list), but I didn't really follow all the details. However, I recently found out (credits: Dominik Freydenberger) about a famous case of plagiarism: Danut Marcu. This guy, who has a

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I was happy to see that two friends defended their PhDs this summer. In chronological order, Radu Atanasiu defended his PhD in Iasi, at the end of June, and Robert Mercas defended his PhD in Tarragona, in July. Both of them work in theoretical computer science (on the formal languages "side of the world"), they had quite nice results in their papers, and I am sure that the PhD is just the

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Continuing the work he started last year, Gabriel Istrate organizes again, this fall, a special track of SYNASC 2010, on Theoretical Computer Science, and, this time, he invited me to be co-chair of the Program Committee. Advances in the Theory of Computing (AITC'10) will host papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, broadly construed. Here you can have a look at the Program Committee

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... este numele unei mainfestari organizate de ASMI si FMI. In principiu este vorba de o sesiune de comunicari (de nivel national) unde studentii de la doctorat, master si licenta isi prezinta rezultatele, lucrarile sau ideeile. Cred ca ideea a fost aceea de a dezvolta sesiunea de comunicari stiintifice a facultatii, un eveniment aflat aproape intotdeauna in criza de participanti. Mi se pare o

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