Programme

 

Wednesday, 7 February, 2024

09.00 –17.00

Workshop Frontiers of String Algorithms and Bioinformatics at Birkbeck Central, BCB 311


              18.00             Cocktail  [The Marquis Cornwallis]

Thursday, 8 February, 2024

09.50 –10.00

Opening words/welcome to Sequences


10.00 –10.25

Sensitivity of string compressors and repetitiveness measures

Shunsuke Inenaga

10.25 –10.50

Heuristics for the Run-Length Encoded Burrows-Wheeler Transform Alphabet Ordering Problem

Lily Major

10.50 –11.20

Coffee Break

11.20 –11.45

Computing the optimal BWT of very large string collections

Veronica Guerrini

11.45 –12.10

r-indexing without backward searching

Lore Depuydt

12.10 –14.30

Lunch break

14.30 –14.55

Utility-Oriented String Mining

Giulia Bernardini

14.55 –15.20

Counting K2,t subgraphs

Angelina McDonald

15.20 –15.50

Coffee Break

15.50 –16.15

Maximal CIH Seeding: A Novel Strategy for Enhanced Genomic Sequence Similarity

Sasha Darmon

16.15 –16.40

Masked superstrings as a unified framework for textual k-mer set representations

Ondřej Sladký

18.30        Drinks at Coin Laundry                

       19.30      Dinner at  Dame Alice Owen pub 

 Friday, 9 February, 2024

10.00 –10.25 

Linear Time Construction of Cover Suffix Tree and Applications

Jakub Radoszewski

10.25 –10.50 

Longest Common Substring and Longest Palindromic Substring in O(√n) Time

Arianna Pavone

10.50 –11.20

Coffee Break

11.20 –11.45 

A quantum circuit for the cyclic rotation operator and its applications to string matching problems

Caterina Viola

11.45 –12.10 

Space-Efficient Indexes for Uncertain Strings

Estéban Gabory

12.10 –14.30

Lunch break

14.30 –17.00

Free discussion

18.00        Closing Party at [ Coin Laundry]