Workshop: Recent Progress in Combinatorics on Words

March 12-16, 2007

Program

 

Monday, March 12, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Registration
Room 5367

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Jean Berstel
(Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
First results on Sturmian trees
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 12:00
Xavier Provençal
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
On the problem of tiling the plane with a polyomino
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Petr Ambroz
(Czech Technical University)
Matrices of morphisms preserving 3-interval exchange transformation words
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 16:00
Julien Cassaigne
(Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy (UMR 6206))
Diophantine properties of automatic real numbers
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:00 - 17:00
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Alexei G. Miasnikov
(McGill University)
Non-Archimedean words and group actions
Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 12:00
Denis E. Serbin
(McGill University)
Automata and infinite words: applications in Group Theory
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Arye Juhasz
(The Technion Israel Institute of Tech.)
An Application of Word Combinatorics to Group Theory
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 16:00
Aviezri Fraenkel
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
Complexity of the Membership Question
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:00 - 17:00
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Gregg Musiker
(University of California, San Diego)
The Zeta Function of a Cyclic Language with Connections to Elliptic Curves and Chip-Firng Games
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 12:00
Benjamin Steinberg
(Carleton Univ.)
Rational codes and free clopen submonoids of free profinite monoids
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Amy Glen
(Université du Québec à Montéal)
A few words about skew and episkew words
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 16:00
Valérie Berthé
(Université Montpellier II)
Sturmian fixed points of morphisms
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:00 - 17:00
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Thursday, March 15, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Pierre Arnoux
(Institut de Mathématique de Luminy)
Pavages, substitutions et automorphismes de groupes
Abstract

Diapos 2 / Slides 2
11:00 - 12:00
Sebastien Ferenczi
(Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy)
Weak mixing and eigenvalues for Arnoux-Rauzy sequences

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Alexandre Blondin-Massé
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
On the critical exponent of generalized Thue-Morse sequences
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 16:00
Dominique Perrin
(Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
Synchronization delay
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:00 - 17:00
Coffee
Room 6245

 

Friday, March 16, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Anna Frid
(Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
A family of factorial languages whose complexity satisfies a recurrence
11:00 - 12:00
Laurent Vuillon
(Université de Montréal)
A characterization of balanced episturmian sequences
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Aldo de Luca
(Università degli Studi Napoli “Federico II”)
Pseudoepisturmian sequences
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 16:00
Lubomira Balkova
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
Defects of fixed points of some substitutions
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

16:00 - 17:00
Coffee
Room 6245