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Contact/Imprint
Getting to Buzios and Transfers from the international airport
The company helping us to organize the conference is offering a shuttle service from the airport to Buzios. You can book it by filling the following form, and sending it back to them by email (meta@wb.com.br).There are a number of other companies also providing the same type of service. There are also regular buses going to Buzios from the main bus terminal in Rio, but we do not recommend it to most foreigners coming for the first time to Rio. The bus terminal is not in the nicest neighborhood, and you are unlikely to find people speaking anything but portuguese there.
Visa Information
Citizens from a number of countries will need a tourist visa to enter Brazil. Please consult our visa information page, or the nearest Brazilian consulate.Tourist Information
You can find plenty of information about Rio on the web. Here's a link to to Rio's oficial city tourism office.Preliminary Program
The Preliminary Program is now available.ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
The 8th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium will be held on April 7-11, 2008 in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
LATIN was launched in 1992 to foster the interaction between the Latin-American community and computer scientists around the world. LATIN'08 will be the eighth of a series, after São Paulo, Brazil (1992); Valparaiso, Chile (1995); Campinas, Brazil (1998) and Punta del Este, Uruguay (2000), Cancun, Mexico (2002), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004), Valdivia, Chile (2006)
Themes
Themes and application areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Algorithms (approximation, online, randomized, algorithmic game theory, etc.)
- Automata theory and formal languages
- Coding theory and data compression
- Combinatorics and graph theory
- Complexity theory
- Computational algebra
- Computational biology
- Computational geometry
- Computational number theory
- Cryptography
- Databases and information retrieval
- Data structures
- Internet and the web
- Logic in computer science
- Machine learning
- Mathematical programming
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Pattern matching
- Quantum computing
- Random structures
- Scientific computing
Program Committee
Michael Bender,
Stony Brook U., USA
Leo Bertossi, Carleton U., Canada
Claudson Bornstein (vice-chair), U. F. Rio de Janeiro , Brasil
Ferdinando Cicalese, U. of Salermo, Italy
José Correa, U. Adolfo
Ibáñez , Chile
Cristina G. Fernandes, U. de São Paulo,
Brazil
David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State U., USA
Fedor Fomin, U. Bergen, Norway
Joachim von zur Gathen, U. of Bonn, Germany
Andrew Goldberg, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA
Venkatesan Guruswami, U. of Washington, USA
Alejandro Hevia, U. Chile, Chile
John Iacono, Polytechnic U., USA
Eduardo Laber (chair), PUC-Rio, Brasil
Alejandro López-Ortiz, U. of Waterloo,
Canada
Arnaldo Mandel, U. de São Paulo, Brasil
Guilhermo Matera, U. Nacional de General
Sarmiento, Argentina
Flávio Miyazawa, Unicamp, Brasil
Mike Molloy, U. of Toronto, Canada
Ojas Parekh, Emory U., USA
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv U., Israel
Artur Pessoa, U. F. Fluminense, Brasil
Jean-Éric Pin, U. of Paris 7, France
Satish Rao, U. of Berkeley, USA
R. Ravi, Carnegie Mellon U., USA
Andrea Richa, Arizona State U., USA
Miklós Ruszinkó, Computer and Automation Research Institute,
Hungary
Gelasio Salazar, U. Autónoma de
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Jayme L. Szwarcfiter, U. F. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Tamir Tassa, The Open U., Israel
Jorge Urrutia, U. Nacional Autónoma de
Mexico, Mexico
Ugo Vaccaro, U. of Salerno, Italy
Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech, USA
Alfredo Viola, U. de la República,
Uruguay
Renato Werneck, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA
Frances Yao, City U. of Hong Kong, Hong-Kong
Steering Committee
Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers U., USA
Marcos Kiwi, U. Chile, Chile
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, U. de São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Panario, Carleton U., Canada
Sergio Rajsbaum, U. Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Gadiel Seroussi, HP Labs, USA
Program Chair
Email: latinchair@inf.puc-rio.br
Eduardo Laber
Depto. de Informatica
PUC-Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vice-chair:
Claudson Bornstein
Depto Ciencia da Computacao,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Local Organizers
Email: latinorganizer@inf.puc-rio.br
Claudson Bornstein, UFRJ, Brazil
Luerbio Faria, UERJ, Brazil
Loana T. Nogueira, UFF, Brazil
Last Edited: May 27, 2007