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		 7th International Conference on Words               
                                                                    
			September 14-18, 2009                        
		 University of Salerno, Fisciano - Italy             
                                                                    
                    http://words2009.dia.unisa.it                   
 (under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)                                                                   *

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WORDS is a biannual conference devoted entirely to combinatorics on words 
(finite or infinite sequences of symbols taken from a finite alphabet). 
The 7th edition of WORDS will take place at University of Salerno, Italy, 
from September 14 to September 18, 2009. 
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)  the algebraic aspects 
of the combinatorics on words and their applications. Special attention 
will be paid to the relations with automata theory.

Detailed information about every aspect related to WORDS 2009 will be 
available in due time on the conference web site 
http://words2009.dia.unisa.it 


INVITED SPEAKERS
M. Crochemore (Paris, France)
A. Fraenkel (Rehovot, Israel)
R. Grossi (Pisa, Italy)
A. Restivo (Palermo, Italy)
C. Reutenauer (Montreal, Canada)
J. Shallit (Ontario, Canada)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
J. P. Allouche (Paris, France)
J. Berstel (Paris, France)
A. Carpi (Perugia, Italy, co-chair)
J. Cassaigne (Marseille, France) 
C. Choffrut (Paris, France)
C. De Felice (Salerno, Italy, co-chair)
A. de Luca (Naples, Italy)
L. Ilie (Ontario, Canada) 
J. Karhumaki (Turku, Finland)
J. Neraud (Rouen, France)
D. Perrin (Paris, France)
W. Rytter (Warsaw, Poland)
M. Volkov (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
L. Vuillon (Le Bourget du Lac, France)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
C. De Felice (Salerno, Italy, chair)
M. Bucci (Naples, Italy)
A. Castiglione (Salerno, Italy)
L. Catuogno (Salerno, Italy)
V. D'Alonzo (Naples, Italy)
A. De Luca (Naples, Italy)
G. Fici (Salerno, Italy) 
R. Zizza (Salerno, Italy)


CONTACT ADDRESS
words2009@dia.unisa.it


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract presenting original 
research dealing with the topic of the conference. The paper should 
not exceed 12 pages in length, including appendices, using 11-point 
font. To submit a paper, please use preferably the automated tool on 
the conference web site. Otherwise please send the paper by e-mail 
to words2009@dia.unisa.it in pdf format. 
 

PROCEEDINGS
A CD-ROM with the extended abstracts of all the invited and accepted 
papers will be  available to participants during the conference upon 
registration. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered 
for publication in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science. 


CONFERENCE SITE
Salerno is located at the geographical center of a triangle nicknamed
Tourist Triangle of the 3 P (namely a triangle with the corners in Pompei, 
Paestum and Positano). Salerno hosted the oldest university in Europe, 
the Schola Medica Salernitana, the most important source of medical 
knowledge in Europe in the early Middle Ages. In 1988, the University of 
Salerno, which now has over 43,000 students, moved to the village of 
Fisciano in the Irno valley, a few miles from Salerno. Its structure is 
that of a university campus and its modern buildings offer many efficient 
services for teaching, research and student life in general. 


SPONSORS
- Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni (University of  Salerno, Italy)
- Faculty of Science (University of Salerno, Italy)
- MIUR project (PRIN) "Mathematical aspects and emerging applications 
  of automata and formal languages"
- ESF project "AutoMathA - Automata from Mathematics to Applications". 


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 29, 2009 
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2009
Final version: July 20, 2009
Registration deadline: August 31, 2009