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         Workshop on Synchronizing Automata Turku (Finland), July 16th, 2004 A Satellite Workshop to ICALP'04  | 
      
 
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         The workshop will be held in the auditorium of DataCity building 1 min. walking distance from Mauno Koivisto Centre (venue of ICALP ) and PharmaCity (venue of LICS); in the congress map, the building is referred to as "3" FINAL PROGRAM  | 
      
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       9:00-9:40  | 
    
       Jan Cerny, Synchronizable automata and Graph Theory  | 
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       9:40-9:55  | 
    
       Alica Kelemenova, On the Early History of Synchronizable Automata in Slovakia  | 
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       10:00-10:25  | 
    Yaokun Wu and Xinmao Wang, Synchronizing Problems for General Digraphs  | 
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       10:30-11:00  | 
    
       Coffee break  | 
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       11:00-11:25  | 
    Greg Budzban, Semigroups and the Generalized Road Coloring Problem  | 
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       11:30-11:55  | 
    Igor Rystsov, Cerny Conjecture: Retrospects and Prospects  | 
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       12:00-12:25  | 
    Masami Ito and Kayoko Shikishima-Tsuji, Shortest Directing Words of Nondeterministic Directable Automata  | 
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       12:30-14:00  | 
    Lunch  | 
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       14:00-14:25  | 
    Dmitry Ananichev and Mikhail Volkov, Synchronizing Generalized Monotonic Automata  | 
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       14:30-14:55  | 
    Avraham Trakhtman, Cerny Conjecture for DFA Accepting Star-free Languages  | 
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       15:00-15:25  | 
    Adam Roman, Merging States and Synchornization Problem  | 
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       15:30-15:55  | 
    
       Dmitry Speranskiy and Igor Speranskiy, Experiments with Bilinear Discrete Systems (the talk will be read by Mikhail Volkov)  | 
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       16:00-16:30  | 
    
       Coffee break  | 
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       16:30-18:00  | 
    
       Problem session and informal discussions - everybody is invited to suggest and to discuss some open questions in the area  |