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	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