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		  | 4th International Conference on  |  
		  | September, 10-13, 2003 Turku, Finland |  
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 Program
			
			  | Tuesday, September 9 |  
			  | 18.00-21.00 | Registration |  
 
			
			  | Wednesday, September 10 |  
			  | 08.30-09.00 | Registration |  
			  |  | Session 1 - Chair: J. Karhumäki |  
			  | 09.00 | Opening Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku
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			  | 09.15-10.15 | Sergei I. Adian The Burnside problem on periodic groups and related topics
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			  | 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |  
			  |  | Session 2 - Chair: I. Simon |  
			  | 10.45-12.45 | Anna E. Frid Sequences of linear arithmetical complexity
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			  |  | Sorin Constantinescu, Lucian Ilie Fine and Wilf's theorem for any number of periods
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			  |  | Arseny M. Shur, Yulia V. Gamzova Periods' interaction property for partial words
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			  |  | I.M. Araujo, V. Bruyere Sturmian words and a criterium by Michaux-Villemaire
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			  | 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |  
			  |  | Session 3 - Chair: A. Restivo |  
			  | 14.00-16.00 | Veikko Keränen On Abelian Square-Free DT0L-Languages over 4 Letters
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			  |  | David B. Penman, Christopher J. Saker Counting Minimal n-Unavoidable Sets
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			  |  | Peter Balazi Substitution Properties of Ternary Words Coding 3-Interval
			      Exchange
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			  |  | Tatjana Petkovic, Miroslav Ciric, Stojan Bogdanovic Words and forbidden subwords
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			  | 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |  
			  |  | Session 4 - Chair: J. Neraud |  
			  | 16.30-18.00 | Julien Bernat Continued fractions and numeration in Fibonacci basis
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			  |  | Ondrej Turek Complexity and balances of the infinite word of
			      \beta-integers
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			  |  | Jean-Luc Baril, Vincent Vajnovszki Gray codes for p-ary Lucas strings
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			  | 19.00 | Reception of city of Turku |  
 
			
			  | Thursday, September 11 |  
			  | A special day dedicated to the 60th birthday of Imre Simon |  
			  |  | Session 5 - Chair: J. Berstel |  
			  | 09.00-09.45 | Christophe Reutenauer Reduced words in symmetric Groups
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			  | 09.45-10.30 | Mikhail Volkov Reflexive relations, extensive transformations and
			    piecewise testable languages of a given height
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			  | 10.30-11.00 | Coffee |  
			  |  | Session 6 - Chair: M. Volkov |  
			  | 11.00-12.30 | Y. Kohayakawa, C. Mauduit, C.G. Moreira, V. Rödl Measures of pseudorandomness for finite sequences:
			    minimum and typical values
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			  |  | Arturo Carpi, Aldo de Luca Harmonic and gold Sturmian words
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			  |  | Pedro V. Silva Rational subsets of partially reversible monoids
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			  | 12.30-13.45 | Lunch |  
			  |  | Session 7 - Chair: D. Perrin |  
			  | 13.45-14.30 | Imre Simon Words distinguished by their subwords
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			  | 16.00-19.00 | Excursion (by boat from Turku to Naantali) |  
			  | 19.00 | Banquet (in Merisali at Naantali) |  
 
			
			  | Friday, September 12 |  
			  |  | Session 8 - Chair: A. de Luca |  
			  | 09.00-09.45 | James Currie Pattern avoidance: Themes and variations
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			  | 09.45-10.15 | Narad Rampersad, Jeffrey Shallit, Ming-wei Wang Avoiding large squares in infinite binary words
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			  | 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |  
			  | 10.45-12.45 | Session 9A - Chair: T. Harju | Session 9B - Chair: F. Mignosi |  
			  |  | F. Leve, G. Richomme On a conjecture about finite fixed points of morphisms
 | Janis Buls Machine Invariant Classes
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			  |  | N.E. Oussous, M. Petitot xtaylor: un algorithme pour les polynomes non commutatifs
 | Veronique Bruyere, Olivier Carton, Geraud Senizergues Tree automata and automata on linear orderings
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			  |  | Hoang Ngoc Minh Finite polyzetas, Poly-Bernoulli numbers, identities of polyzetas
			    and noncommutative rational power series
 | Julia Stoll A regular characterization of context-free languages applying
			    an extension of Higman's theorem
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			  |  | Leszek Gasieniec, Roman Kolpakov, Igor Potapov Space efficient search for maximal repetitions
 | Peter Leupold On some properties of context-free languages related to
			    primitive words
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			  | 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |  
			  |  | Session 10 - Chair: V. Bruyere |  
			  | 14.00-16.00 | Sabrina Mantaci, Antonio Restivo, Marinella Sciortino Combinatorial aspects of the Burrows-Wheeler transform
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			  |  | Maurice Margenstern Tilings of hyperbolic spaces: the splitting method and group
			    theory
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			  |  | M. Domaratzki, A. Mateescu, K. Salomaa, S. Yu Deletion on trajectories and commutative closure
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			  |  | Sergey Verlan, Rosalba Zizza 1-splicing vs. 2-splicing: separating results
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			  | 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |  
			  |  | Session 11 - Chair: J.-M. Boe |  
			  | 16.30-18.00 | A. Bertoni, P. Massazza, R. Radicioni Random generation of words with fixed occurrences of symbols in
			    regular languages
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			  |  | Diego de Falco, Massimiliano Goldwurm, Violetta Lonati Pattern statistic in bicomponent stochastic models
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			  |  | Denis Debarbieux, Yves Roos, Sophie Tison, Yves Andre,
			      Anne-Cecile Caron Path rewriting in semistructured data
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			  | Saturday, September 13 |  
			  |  | Session 12 - Chair: J. Cassaigne |  
			  | 09.00-09.45 | Florent Hivert An analogue of the plastic monoid for binary search trees
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			  | 09.45-10.15 | Anouk Bergeron-Brlek, Srecko Brlek, Annie Lacasse,
			      Xavier Provencal Patterns in smooth tilings
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			  | 10.15-10.45 | Coffee |  
			  |  | Session 13 - Chair: J. Currie |  
			  | 10.45-12.45 | Vesa Halava Decidability in infinite Post correspondence problem
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			  |  | Tero Harju, Dirk Nowotka About Duval extensions
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			  |  | Stepan Holub A proof of Duval's conjecture
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			  |  | Eduardo Moreno Lyndon words and de Bruijn sequences in a subshift of finite type
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			  | 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |  
			  |  | Session 14 - Chair: Ch. Reutenauer |  
			  | 14.00-14.30 | D.S. Ananichev, I.V. Petrov Quest for short synchronizing words and short collapsing words
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			  | 14.30-15.15 | Filippo Mignosi The multidimensional critical factorization theorem
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			  | 15.15-16.15 | Coffee |  |  |