WORDS’21

WORDS’21

13th International Conference on Words

September 13 — 17, 2021, Rouen, France.

https://words2021.sciencesconf.org/

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),
Kiel (2015), and Loughborough (2019).

If the Covid situation allows it, 
the 13th International Conference on Words, WORDS 2021 will take place on
September 13th-17th 2021 in Rouen and in some hybrid form.
Otherwise, it will be held completely virtually.

Co-chairs of this edition are Thierry Lecroq and Svetlana Puzynina.

Invited Speakers
   TBA 

Program Committee
    Hideo Bannai (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
    Elena Barcucci (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
    Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
    Gabriele Fici (Università di Palermo, Italy)
    Anna Frid (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
    Sylvie Hamel (Université de Montréal, Canada)
    Manfred Kufleitner (Loughborough University, UK) 
    Thierry Lecroq (Université de Rouen Normandie, France, co-chair)
    Florin Manea (University of Göttingen, Germany)
    Edita Pelantová (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
    Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, co-chair)
    Narad Rampersad (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
    Michael Rao (ENS Lyon, France)
    Daniel Reidenbach (Loughborough University, UK) 
    Gwenaël Richomme (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
    Michel Rigo (Université de Liège, Belgium)
    Aleksi Saarela (University of Turku, Finland)
    Arseny Shur (Ural Federal University, Russia)


Important dates
   Submission deadline: April 30, 2021
   Notification to authors: June 12, 2021
   Deadline for final versions: June 20, 2021
   Conference: September 13-17, 2021

Submission guidelines
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages (including references) 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 submissions 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=words2021

Contact
words2021-org@sciencesconf.org

The conference is organized by the following laboratories:
- LITIS EA 4108 (main organizer), University of Rouen Normandie, France,
- GREYC UMR 6072, University of Caen Normandie, France,
- LMRS UMR 6085, University of Rouen Normandie, France.