Program

The conference will start on Monday, June 30th in the morning and end on Friday, July 4th at noon.

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Monday, June 30th

9:30 AM: Welcome coffee

10:00 AM: Welcome speech

Chair : Štěpán Holub

10:10 AM: Markus Whiteland – Glimpses into Recent Developments in Subword Combinatorics and Binomial Coefficients (Invited talk). Slides.

11:10 AM: Break

11:40 AM: On maximal 2-dimensional binary words of bounded degree – Alexandre Blondin Massé, Alain Goupil, Raphaël L’Heureux, Louis Marin. Slides.

12:20 PM: Binomial Coefficients of Multidimensional Arrays – Mehdi Golafshan, Michel Rigo. Slides.

1:00 PM: Lunch

Chair : Svetlana Puzynina

2:30 AM: Circularity and repetitiveness in non-injective DF0L systems – Herman Goulet-Ouellet, Karel Klouda, Štěpán Starosta. Slides.

3:10 PM: And now there are four: Another brick in the wall of the optimal upper bound on the MP-ratio – Kristina Ago, Bojan Bašić. Slides.

3:50 PM: Break

4:20 PM: Digital Convexity and Combinatorics on Words – Alessandro De Luca, Gabriele Fici, Andrea Frosini. Slides.


Tuesday, July 1st

Chair : Narad Rampersad

9:30 AM: Martin Lustig – S-adic expansions, invariant measures and substitutive subshifts (Invited talk)
With associated hand-out.

10:30 AM: Factorizations and Monoids – Fabio Burderi

11:10 AM: Break

11:40 AM: Free Product of Formal Series – Fabio Burderi

12:20 PM: Note on dissecting power of regular languages – Josef Rukavicka

1:00 PM: Lunch

Chair : Julien Cassaigne

2:30 PM: Open Problems. Slides gathering all open problems.

3:50 PM: Break


Wednesday, July 2nd

Chair : Anna Frid

9:30 AM: Idrissa Kaboré – On the abelian complexity of infinite words (Invited talk). Slides.

10:30 AM: Purely automatic sequences with the uniform distribution property – Shuo Li, Narad Rampersad. Slides.

11:10 AM: Break

11:40 PM: Shuffle Squares and Nest-Free Graphs – Jarosław Grytczuk, Bartłomiej Pawlik, Andrzej Ruciński. Slides.

12:20 PM: Clustering of return words in languages of interval exchanges – Francesco Dolce, Christian B. Hughes. Slides.

1:00 PM: Lunch

3:00 PM: Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Place Stanislas, Nancy (registration required);
IMPORTANT:
– Departure as a group from the LORIA (meet at the place of the coffee breaks) at 2:20 PM (for those who want to go downtown with other participants.)
– Otherwise, directly meet in front of the museum (3 Pl. Stanislas, 54000 Nancy) at 3:00 PM



Thursday, July 3rd

Chair : Julien Leroy

9:30 AM: Daniel Gabrić – Combinatorial problems on closed and privileged words (Invited talk). Slides.

10:30 AM: The Heinis spectrum has non-empty interior – Harold Erazo, Carlos Gustavo Moreira. Slides.

11:10 AM: Break

11:40 AM: On the closed-rich constant of infinite words – Anuran Maity, Svetlana Puzynina

12:20 PM: Symmetries of rich sequences with minimum critical exponent – Ľubomíra Dvořáková, Edita Pelantová. Slides.

12:45 -1:00 PM:— Conference photo —

1:00 PM+epsilon: Lunch

Chair : Zuzana Masáková

2:30 PM: Words avoiding half-flips – James D. Currie, Narad Rampersad. Slides.

3:10 PM: Avoiding abelian and additive powers in rich words – Jonathan Andrade, Lucas Mol. Slides.

3:50 PM: Break

4:20 PM: A Characterization of Algebraic Multivariate Power Series with Sparse Support – Seda Albayrak

7:30 PM: Banquet : Grand Café Foy (1 Pl. Stanislas, 54000 Nancy)

IMPORTANT : Please remember your choices you made via mail for “Starter – Main course -Dessert” and/or take the little yellow paper at the desk in the lecture hall !

Drinks:

* Kir Lorrain, Toul auxerrois and Mirabelle cream or glass of champagne;
* 2 glasses of wine from the selection offered;
* still and sparkling mineral water;
* coffee or tea.


Friday, July 4th

Chair : Michel Rigo

9:30 AM: France Gheeraert – The link between return words and extensions of factors (Invited talk). Slides.

10:30 AM: A succinct study of positionality for Dumont–Thomas numeration systems – Savinien Kreczman, Sébastien Labbé, Manon Stipulanti. Slides.

11:10 AM: Break

11:40 AM: Linear Recurrence Sequence Automata and the Addition of Abstract Numeration Systems – Olivier Carton, Jean-Michel Couvreur, Martin Delacourt and Nicolas Ollinger. Slides.

12:20 PM: About ∆-numeration – Bastien Laboureix, Eric Domenjoud

1:00 PM: Lunch