WORDS 2019, 1st call for papers

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         WORDS 2019
              12th International Conference
          Loughborough, September 9–13, 2019
            http://words2019.lboro.ac.uk

*Announcement*
   WORDS is a biannual international conference covering the mathematical theory of words (sequences of symbols) from all points of view: combinatorial, algebraic, algorithmic, as well as its applications to biology, linguistics, physics, and others.

   The previous WORDS conferences have taken place in Rouen (1997, 1999), Palermo (2001), Turku (2003, 2013), Montreal (2005, 2017), Marseille (2007), Salerno (2009), Prague (2011), and Kiel (2015).

   The 12th International Conference on Words, WORDS 2019 will take place on September 9-13 2019 at Loughborough University, UK (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/).

   Co-chairs of this edition are Robert Mercaș and Daniel Reidenbach.

*Invited Speakers*
   Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
   Florin Manea (Kiel)
   Svetlana Puzynina (St. Petersburg)
   Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
   Gwenaël Richomme (Montpellier)
   Aleksi Saarela (Turku)
   Kristina Vuskovic (Leeds)

*Program Committee*
   Marie-Pierre Béal (Paris)
   Srecko Brlek (Montreal)
   Émilie Charlier (Liège)
   Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
   Gabriele Fici (Palermo)
   Anna Frid (Marseille)
   Amy Glen (Murdoch)
   Štěpán Holub (Prague)
   Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu)
   Robert Mercas (Loughborough) co-chair
   Dirk Nowotka (Kiel)
   Jarkko Peltomäki (Turku)
   Edita Pelantová (Prague)
   Narad Rampersad (Winnipeg)
   Daniel Reidenbach (Loughborough) co-chair
   Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
   Arseny Shur (Yekaterinburg)

*Important dates*
   Submission deadline: April 12, 2019
   Notification to authors: May 20, 2019
   Deadline for final versions: June 3, 2019
   Conference: September 9–13, 2019

*Submission guidelines*
   Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and be prepared according to the following guidelines and LNCS-style LaTeX2e. All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint (updated before submission). These will be read at the discretion of the program committee.

Only original submission which have not been submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=words2019


*Contact*
  Words2019 at lboro.ac.uk


   The conference is organised by the Department of Computer Science, School of Science,
   Loughborough University, UK.