Latin American Theoretical INformatics

LATIN 2000

April 10-14, 2000
Punta del Este, Uruguay

Organized by the Instituto de Computación , Facultad de Ingeniería , Universidad de la República and Pedeciba Informática.
  • Last update May 29, 2001.
  • We also have a mirror page at the University of Toronto, Canada.
  • LATIN 2002 will be held at Cancun, Mexico on April 3 - 6, 2002.

    • Contents

    About the conference

    A new series of Symposia in Theoretical Computer Science was launched in 1992, to be held in a Latin American context: LATIN (Latin American Theoretical INformatics). This effort was done in cooperation with SIGACT, EATCS, the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, IFIP's new Specialist Group on Foundations of Computer Science and some Latin American Computer Societies.

    This is the fourth event of the series, after LATIN'92 (São Paulo, Brazil), LATIN'95 (Valparaíso, Chile), and LATIN'98 (Campinas, Brazil).

    Scientific related issues

    Call for papers

  • Important deadlines in postscript.
  • The first call for papers in postscript, and in text format.
  • The second call for papers in postscript, and in text format.

    • Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest for LATIN 2000 include: algorithms; analysis of algorithms; automata theory; coding theory; combinatorics (designs, enumeration, optimization, structures); computability and complexity; computational biology; computational geometry; computational number theory; computer algebra and symbolic computation; cryptography; data compression; data structures; discrete mathematics; experimental algorithmics; formal languages; graph theory; logic in computing; mathematical programming; on-line problems; pattern matching; parallel and distributed algorithms; programming theory; quantum computation; and random structures and algorithms.

    Important dates

    Submissions

    Authors are cordially invited to submit an extended abstract in English of at most ten pages, not counting the references. Authors are asked to prepare their papers using the standard LaTeX2e, together with the corresponding Springer class file "llncs.cls", and to submit a PostScript version of them. For more information, please visit the LNCS Information for Authors Web page at LNCS. Electronic submission is strongly recommended.

    The electronic address for submissions is latin@inf.ethz.ch.

    In case of hard copy submission, authors are asked to send five copies of the paper (via courier mail and postmarked by August 20, 1999), to:

    Prof. Gastón Gonnet
    Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
    ETH Zentrum IFW D 28.1
    8092 Zürich, Switzerland

    The proceedings of LATIN 2000 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the volume 1776 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. The proceedings of the previous LATIN meetings were also published by Springer-Verlag, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (volumes 583, 911 and 1380, respectively). We are pleased to announce that there will be a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science dedicated to full versions of the extended abstracts of LATIN 2000.

    Invited speakers

    Allan Borodin (Canada)
    Philippe Flajolet (France)
    Joachim von zur Gathen (Germany)
    Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (Brazil)
    Andrew Odlyzko (USA)
    Prabhakar Raghavan (USA)

    Program committee

    The chair of the Program Committee is Gastón Gonnet.

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chile)
    Béla Bollobás (USA)
    Felipe Cucker (Hong Kong)
    Josep Díaz (Spain)
    Esteban Feuerstein (Argentina)
    Celina M. H. de Figueiredo (Brazil)
    Gastón Gonnet (Switzerland, Chair)
    Jozef Gruska (Czech Republic)
    Joos Heintz (Argentina/Spain)
    Gérard Huet (France)
    Marcos Kiwi (Chile)
    Ming Li (Canada)
    Cláudio L. Lucchesi (Brazil)
    Ron Mullin (Canada)
    Ian Munro (Canada)
    Daniel Panario (Canada)
    Dominique Perrin (France)
    Patricio Poblete (Chile)
    Bruce Reed (France)
    Bruce Richmond (Canada)
    Vojtech Rödl (USA)
    Imre Simon (Brazil)
    Neil Sloane (USA)
    Siang Wun Song (Brazil)
    Endre Szemerédi (USA)
    Alfredo Viola (Uruguay)
    Yoshiko Wakabayashi (Brazil)
    Nivio Ziviani (Brazil)

    Organizing committee

    The organization committee is co-chaired by Daniel Panario and Alfredo Viola.

    Scientific Program of the Conference

    Accepted papers

  • This is the list of accepted papers.

    • The scientific program

  • We are very pleased to announce that Gadiel Seroussi will present a one hour tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems.

  • This is the scientific program. Each Invited Speaker gives a 55 minutes talk plus 5 minutes for questions. The contributed talks are 20 minutes long plus 5 minutes for questions.

    • Location of the conference

    Punta del Este is one of South America's top coastal resorts, located one hour East of Montevideo, Uruguay. We expect an exciting meeting, with the main accommodation and conference site in a hotel facing the Atlantic Ocean which will provide the opportunity for close interaction among participants in a very attractive setting.

    LATIN 2000 will take place at the at the Dunas Hotel in Manantiales, 10 minutes driving from Punta del Este. The Dunas Hotel is located in Ruta 10, km163, Playa de Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay, and you can contact them by phone (+598-42-771211) or by fax (+598-42-771210).

    We recommend to fly to Montevideo (Carrasco Airport), and then take a ground transportation to the Conference. We will soon update you about the possibilities for the trip Montevideo - Punta del Este. We also recommend that you book your air flight as soon as possible, since some flights may already be sold out.

    Registration and accommodation fees

    Information on registration fees, accommodations and form of payment is now available. The deadline for early registration is February 29, 2000. The registration form can be downloaded in Registration.doc, Registration.txt and Registration.html.

    Please remember to check whether you need a visa to enter in Uruguay.

    Social program

    Some of the activities at LATIN 2000 will be:
    Sunday 9: Reception
    The Conference starts Monday 10 at 9:00 AM.

    Monday 10 (night): welcome cocktail
    The welcome party will be held in the Dunas hotel.

    Tuesday 11:
    We will provide a list of cultural options for the evening.

    Wednesday 12 (noon): excursion to Estancia & Museo Siglo XX
    Lunch will be in the best traditions of the country: a complete barbecue.
    Please, let us know in advance of any special diets, including vegetarian.

    Thursday 13: farewell dinner

    Moreover, the "Dunas Club" provides days and night entertainments. The surroundings of the hotel are also a very enjoyable place to visit, offering an ideal environment for walks.

    Mailing list

    To receive further announcements please send your name, affiliation and e-mail to latin@fing.edu.uy.

    Sponsors and Supporting Organizations

    Universidad ORT del Uruguay

    Conicyt (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)

    CSIC (Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica de la Universidad de la República)

    CLEI

    CYTED Subprograma VII

    UNESCO

    Tecnología Informática

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