Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA)
The 2015 Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) will take place on September 4th, the day after SPIRE, in Room K6.63 (6th floor, King's Building) of the King's College London's Strand Campus. The workshop will consist of
- an invited talk from 9–10 am by Richard Durbin from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, about BWT/FM-index data structures for DNA alignment and assemby;
- a tutorial from 2–3 pm by Simon Gog from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), about the Succinct Data Structure Library (SDSL);
- a variety of contributed talks.
The detailed workshop programme can be found here. For more information please contact one of the co-chairs, Travis Gagie (U. Helsinki, firstname.lastname@gmail.com) and Tatiana Starikovskaya (U. Bristol, tat.lastname@gmail.com).
StringMasters Workshop
StringMasters will take place on September 4th, the day after SPIRE, in Room K2.41 (2nd floor, King's Building) of the King's College London's Strand Campus. StringMasters was established with the aim of bringing together researchers in string algorithms at all levels (senior, junior, especially graduate students) to study current problems of particular theoretical and practical interest. It is informal, with no scheduled presentations, entirely devoted to new research resulting from the interactions among the participants.
Typically small impromtu groups form, of about 2 to 5 researchers, who share a common interest in a problem. Old collaborations are reinforced, and new collaborations are formed. The workshop will be accomodated in several meeting rooms to allow space for the parallel working groups and for general milling around. All interested participants are welcome!
For more information please contact Solon Pissis (firstname.lastname@kcl.ac.uk).