London Stringology Days/
London Algorithmic Workshop 2016

LSD & LAW 2016

February 4-5 2016

LSD & LAW 2016 – Programme

Thursday 4th February 2016

09:00-09:20

Registration

09:20-09:30

Opening and welcome by Professor Peter McBurney,

Head of the Department of Informatics in the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

First session, Chair: Maxime Crochemore

09:30-10:20

Invited talk:

Marie-Pierre Béal

Shifts of sequences and zeta functions

10:20-10:45

Coffee Break

Second session, Chair: Nadia Pisanti

10:45-11:10

Fatima Vayani

Circular Sequence Comparison with q-grams

11:10-11:35

Gabriele Fici

Linear-Time Sequence Comparison Using Minimal Absent Words

11:35-12:00

Ritu Kundu

Superbubbles and their Linear-Time Identification

12:00-14:20

Lunch

            Third session, Chair: Marie-Pierre Béal

14:20-15:10

Invited talk:

Filippo Mignosi

Sturmian words, Symbolic Dynamics and Approximation Results

15:10-15:35

Mikhail Rubinchik

EERTREE: An Efficient Data Structure for Processing Palindromes in Strings

15:35-16:00

Tomasz Kociumaka

Optimal Dynamic Strings

16:00-16:20

Coffee Break

Fourth session, Chair: Filippo Mignosi

16:20-16:45

Noemi Passing

Advanced Runtime Analysis of Pattern Matching Algorithms: How to Compute the Distribution of Character Accesses Efficiently

16:45-17:10

Simon Puglisi

Lempel-Ziv Decoding in External Memory

17:10-17:35

German Tischler

Low Space External Memory Construction of the Succinct Permuted Longest Common Prefix Array


Friday 5th February 2016

 

First session, Chair: Bill Smyth

09:30-10:20

Invited talk:

Michael Soltys

Some Open Problems in Stringology Related to Alphabet Sizes

10:20-10:45

Coffee Break

Second session, Chair: Thierry Lecroq

10:45-11:10

Lukas Hrbek

Approximate String Matching & Self-Indexes

11:10-11:35

Jouni Sirén

Indexing Graph Genomes

11:35-12:00

Travis Gagie

Variable-Order de Bruijn Graphs

12:00-14:20

Lunch

Third session, Chair: Colin Cooper

14:20-14:45

Tiziana Di Matteo

Network filtering for Big Data

14:45-15:10

Robert Elsässer

Approximation Load Balancing Schemes in Heterogeneous Networks with a Focus on Second-Order Diffusion

15:10-15:35

Aris T. Pagourtzis

Limited Energy Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

15:35-16:00

Sergio de Agostino

Compressing Massive Data on a Distributed System

16:00-16:20

Coffee Break

Fourth session, Chair: Michael Soltys

16:20-16:45

Tomasz Waleń

Fast Computation of Runs and LCE-Queries in Strings Over General Alphabets

16:45-17:10

Bill Smyth

A prefix array for parameterized strings

17:10-17:35

Jakub Radoszewski

On the Greedy Algorithm for the Shortest Common Superstring Problem with Reversals