<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Flavio Keidi Miyazawa <<a href="mailto:fkm@ic.unicamp.br">fkm@ic.unicamp.br</a>><br><b>Date:</b> November 13, 2019 at 10:06:44 AM CST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:fkm@ic.unicamp.br">fkm@ic.unicamp.br</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>LATIN 2020 Final Call for Papers</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>==================================================</span><br><span></span><br><span>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br><span></span><br><span>LATIN 2020</span><br><span></span><br><span>The 14th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/">https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>==================================================</span><br><span></span><br><span>A series of Symposia in Theoretical Computer Science was launched in</span><br><span>1992, to be held in Latin America: LATIN, Latin American Theoretical</span><br><span>Informatics. This is the 14th event of the series, after São Paulo,</span><br><span>Brazil (1992), Valparaiso, Chile (1995), Campinas, Brazil (1998),</span><br><span>Punta del Este, Uruguay (2000), Cancún, Mexico (2002), Buenos Aires,</span><br><span>Argentina (2004), Valdivia, Chile (2006), Búzios, Brazil (2008),</span><br><span>Oaxaca, Mexico (2010), Arequipa, Peru (2012), Montevideo, Uruguay</span><br><span>(2014), and Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018). In 2020, LATIN will be</span><br><span>held in São Paulo, Brazil.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For further information on LATIN, visit <a href="https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/">https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>SCOPE AND TOPICS</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>LATIN is devoted to different areas in theoretical computer science</span><br><span>including, but not limited to: algorithms (approximation, online,</span><br><span>combinatorial optimization, etc.), algorithmic game theory, analytic</span><br><span>combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, automata theory and formal</span><br><span>languages, combinatorics and graph theory, computational algebra and</span><br><span>number theory, computational complexity, computational biology,</span><br><span>computational geometry, data structures and information retrieval,</span><br><span>foundations of data science and theoretical machine learning, parallel</span><br><span>and distributed computing, quantum computing, randomization and</span><br><span>pseudorandomness, sublinear algorithms and testing.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>INVITED SPEAKERS</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Nikhil Bansal, CWI and Eindhoven University of Technology</span><br><span>Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University</span><br><span>Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research</span><br><span>Subhash Khot, New York University</span><br><span>Eduardo Sany Laber, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro</span><br><span>Alexander Razborov, The University of Chicago</span><br><span>Luca Trevisan, Bocconi University</span><br><span>Bianca Zadrozny, IBM Research Brazil</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>IMPORTANT DATES</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Abstract Submission: November 17, 2019</span><br><span>Paper Submission: November 24, 2019</span><br><span>Author Notification: February 10, 2020</span><br><span>Camera Ready: March 2, 2020</span><br><span>Symposium: May 25-29, 2020</span><br><span></span><br><span>All deadlines are AOE time zone.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>PROCEEDINGS</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>As in previous editions, the proceedings of LATIN 2020 will be</span><br><span>published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Visit the</span><br><span>LATIN webpage at SpringerLink through <a href="https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/">https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>SUBMISSION</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Submissions are limited to twelve (12) single-column letter-size pages</span><br><span>in Springer LNCS format (check Springer's authors' guidelines and</span><br><span>other details at <a href="https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/">https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/</a> ). This page limit</span><br><span>includes figures and references. An optional appendix (to be read at</span><br><span>the program committee's discretion) may be included if desired.</span><br><span>Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with</span><br><span>published proceedings, as well as the submission of previously</span><br><span>published papers, is not allowed. Papers must be written in English.</span><br><span>For each accepted paper at least one author must register and attend</span><br><span>the symposium to present it. Moreover, an author cannot register for</span><br><span>multiple papers. That is, each accepted paper must have its own</span><br><span>registered presenter.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Instructions for the submission process will be posted on the</span><br><span>conference web site.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (Chair), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</span><br><span>Flávio Keidi Miyazawa (Chair), Universidade de Campinas, Brazil</span><br><span></span><br><span>Andris Ambainis, University of Latvia, Latvia</span><br><span>Frédérique Bassino, Université Paris 13, France</span><br><span>Flavia Bonomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina</span><br><span>Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada</span><br><span>Olivier Carton, Université Paris Diderot, France</span><br><span>Ferdinando Cicalese, University of Verona, Italy</span><br><span>José Rafael Correa, Universidad de Chile, Chile</span><br><span>Pierluigi Crescenzi, Université Paris Diderot, France</span><br><span>Luc Devroye, McGill University, Canada</span><br><span>Martin Dietzfelbinger, TU Ilmenau, Germany</span><br><span>David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State University, USA</span><br><span>Esteban Feuerstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina</span><br><span>Eldar Fischer, The Technion, Israel</span><br><span>Pierre Fraigniaud, Université Paris Diderot, France</span><br><span>Martin Fürer, The Pennsylvania State University, USA</span><br><span>Anna Gál, The University of Texas at Austin, USA</span><br><span>Ron Holzman, The Technion, Israel</span><br><span>Marcos Kiwi, Universidad de Chile, Chile</span><br><span>Teresa Krick, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina</span><br><span>Cláudia Linhares Sales, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil</span><br><span>Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan</span><br><span>Conrado Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</span><br><span>Marco Molinaro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span><br><span>Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland</span><br><span>Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile</span><br><span>Rolf Niedermeier, TU Berlin, Germany</span><br><span>Rafael Oliveira, University of Toronto, Canada</span><br><span>Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada</span><br><span>Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy</span><br><span>Pan Peng, University of Sheffield, UK</span><br><span>Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University, Israel</span><br><span>Paweł Prałat, Ryerson University, Canada</span><br><span>Pavel Pudlák, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic</span><br><span>Svetlana Puzynina, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia</span><br><span>Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico</span><br><span>Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA</span><br><span>Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford, UK</span><br><span>Asaf Shapira, Tel Aviv University, Israel</span><br><span>Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley, USA</span><br><span>Mohit Singh, Georgia Tech, USA</span><br><span>Maya Stein, Universidad de Chile, Chile</span><br><span>Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span><br><span>Eli Upfal, Brown University, USA</span><br><span>Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico</span><br><span>Brigitte Vallée, Université de Caen, France</span><br><span>Mikhail V. Volkov, Ural Federal University, Russia</span><br><span>Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa, Israel</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>IMRE SIMON TEST-OF-TIME AWARD</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>As of 2012, the Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award is given to the LATIN</span><br><span>paper deemed most influential among all those published at least ten</span><br><span>years prior to the current edition of the conference. Papers</span><br><span>published in the LATIN proceedings up to and including 2010 are</span><br><span>eligible for the 2020 award.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>BEST PAPER AWARD</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Papers presented at the conference will be considered for the LATIN</span><br><span>2020 Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz Best Paper Award.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>POSTER SESSIONS</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Poster sessions are planned to facilitate and promote the attendance</span><br><span>of students and young researchers. Details of the poster submission</span><br><span>procedure will be given in the second call for papers.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil</span><br><span>Guilherme Oliveira Mota, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil</span><br><span>José Coelho de Pina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</span><br><span>Yoshiko Wakabayashi, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span>LATIN STEERING COMMITTEE</span><br><span>----------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Michael A. Bender, Stony Brook University, USA</span><br><span>Cristina G. Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil</span><br><span>Joachim von zur Gathen, Bonn-Aachen International Center for</span><br><span>Information Technology, Germany</span><br><span>Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada</span><br><span>Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh, USA</span><br><span>Alfredo Viola, Universidad de la República, Uruguay</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>