[comp.theory] FSTTCS Conference Programme

SHYAM@TIFRVAX.BITNET (09/24/90)

                                    F.S.T. & T.C.S.


                                 Preliminary Programme
                              (only first Authors given)

                                 10 FST&TCS Conference

                             (Including Sessions Honouring
                            Professor R. Narasimhan, TIFR)

                               West End Hotel, Bangalore
                                December 17 - 19, 1990

           Registration Form

           Last date for advance registration: November 30, 1990

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           Venue                Hotel Westend is centrally located  about  10
                               kms.  from  the airport and within 5 kms.  of
                               most of the hotels and the railway station.

           Weather              December is a  pleasant  month  in  Bangalore
                               with  temperatures  ranging from 10 degrees C
                               at night to 25 degrees C in the afternoon.

           Transport            Autorickshaw (three-wheeler) can be shared by
                               two to three passengers, Rs. 2.00 per km. Bus
                               available, but crowded.

           Hotels               Around $ 50 a day : Windsor Manon, Taj,
                                                   Holiday Inn, Ashok,














                                                   Westend

                               Around $ 25 a day : Harsha, Cauvery,
                                                   Chalukya, Bangalore Intl.

                               Around $ 15 a day : Gautam, Kanishka,
                                                   Rajmahal, Maurya,
                                                   Woodlands

                               Around $  8 a day :  Ajantha, Brindavan,
                                                   Motimahal


                                       PROGRAMME

           December 17, 1990

           8.00 - 9.00          Registration

           9.00 - 9.30          Inauguration:   R. Narasimhan

           9.30 - 10.30         Session 1: Chairman: R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR)
                               Invited Lecture: Topic to be announced
                                         J.L. Lassez (IBM, Thomas J. Watson
                                         Research Center, Yorktown Heights)

           10.30 - 11.00        Tea

           11.00 - 13.00        Session 2: Logic
                               Chairman: G. Venkatesh (IIT,Bombay)

                               Jia-Huai You "Discriminant Circumscription"

                               R. Subrahmanyam "Complexity of Algebraic
                                                Specifications"

                               Ralf Treinen "A New Method for Undecidability
                                             Proofs of First Order Theories"

                               M. Masseron "Generating Plans in Linear
                                            Logic"

           13.00 - 14.00        Lunch

           14.00 - 15.30        Session 3: Automata Formal Languages
                               Chairman: Kamala Krithivasan (IIT, Madras)

                               Karel Culik II "Automata Theoretic Techniques
                                               for Image Generation and
                                               Compression"

                               A. Saoudi "Recognizable Infinite Tree Sets
                                          and their Complexity"














                               V. Vinay "The expressibility of nondetermin-
                                         istic auxiliary stack automata and
                                         its relation to tree size .......
                                         automata"

           15.30 - 16.00        Tea

           16.00 - 17.00        Session 4: Theory of Programming
                               Chairman: K.V. Nori (TRDDC, Pune)

                               C.P. Lewington "Towards constructive program
                                               derivation in VDM"

                               G. Sivakumar "A new method for proving
                                             termination of AC-Rewrite
                                             systems"

           December 18, 1990

           9.00 - 10.30         Session 5: Parallel Algorithms
                               Chairman: Y.N. Srikant (IISc, Bangalore)

                               A. Tyagi "Efficient parallel algorithms for
                                         optical computing with DFT
                                         primitive"

                               R. Raman "The power of collision: Randomized
                                         parallel algorithms for chaining
                                         and integer sorting"

                               S. Olariu "An NC recognition algorithm for
                                          Cographs"
           10.30 - 11.00        Tea

           10.30 - 13.00        Parallel Algorithms (Contd.)

                               J. Case "Optimally representing euclidean
                                        space discretely for analogically
                                        simulating physical phenomena"

                               A. Lingas "Optimal parallel algorithms for
                                          testing isomorphism of trees and
                                          outerplannar graphs"

                               R. Sanguthevar "Randomized parallel
                                               selection"

                               D. Pearson "A fast parallel algorithm for
                                           finding a maximal bipartite set"


           13.00 - 14.00        Lunch

           Post Lunch Session   Tribute to Prof. R. Narasimhan, TIFR, Bombay














                               Invited Speakers: A. Rozenfield
                                                 B. Chandrasekaran
                                                 Rajeev Sangal
                                                 K.V. Nori
                                                 S. Ramani
                                                 R.K. Shyamasundar

                               Dinner

           December 19, 1990

           9.00 - 10.00         Session 6:
                               Chairman: C.E. Venimadhavan (IISc, Bangalore)
                                          On the Parallel Evaluation of
                                          Classes of Circuits

                               Invited Lecture: S.R. Kosaraju (The John
                                                Hopkins University)
                                                (Topic to be Announced)

           10.00 - 10.30        Tea/Coffee

           10.30 - 12.00        Session 7: Geometric Algorithms
                               Chairman: S.N. Maheshwari (IIT, Delhi)

                               R.C.T. Lee "Voronoi Diagrams of Moving Points
                                           in the Plane"

                               B. Bhattacharya "Efficient algorithms for
                                                identifying all maximal
                                                isothetic empty rectangles
                                                in VLSI layout design"

                               A. Datta "On some largest empty ortho convex
                                         polygons in a point set"

           12.00 - 13.00        Session 8: Concurrancy
                               Chairman: P.S. Thiagarajan (SPIC Foundation,
                                                                Madras)
                               M.Z. Kwiatkowska "Defining fairness for Non-
                                                 interleaving concurrency"

                               G.L. Ferrari "Observational logics and
                                             concurrency models"


           13.00 - 14.00        Lunch

           14.00 - 15.30        Session 9: Distributed Computing
                               Chairman: G.P. Bhattacharjee (IIT, Kharagpur)

                               A. Arora "Distributed Reset"

                               H.H. Lovengreen "Refinement and composition














                                                of transition-based rely-
                                                guarantee specifications
                                                with auxiliary variables"

                               S. Venkatesan "Efficient algorithms for crash
                                              recovery in distributed
                                              systems"
           15.30 - 16.00        Tea

           16.00 - 17.00        Session 10: Semantics
                               Chairman: S. Biswas (IIT, Kanpur)

                               G. Reggio "A non-standard inductive
                                          semantics"

                               K. Sieber "Relating full abstraction results
                                          for different programming
                                          languages"

                               Registration Information

           Important            Advance  registration  is  recommended.  Com-
                               pleted  registration  forms should be sent to
                               reach the address given below before November
                               30, 1990.

           Registration         Rs. 650 per person upto November 30, Rs.  750
                               per person after November 30; includes a copy
                               of  the conference proceedings,  refreshments
                               and lunch.  Rs.  200 for full-time  students;
                               includes refreshments and lunch.

           Payment              By bank draft enclosed with registration form
                               in  favour  of "Foundations of Software Tech-
                               nology and Theoretical Computer Science 10"

           Indian               Limited travel  grants are  available to full
           Participants         time students, teachers,  research workers in
                               educational   institutions.   Those   seeking
                               travel support must write a  covering  letter
                               indicating their need.

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                               to  pay  their  fee at the conference.  Allow
                               plenty of  time  for  the  visa  formalities.
                               Please make your travel arrangements early as
                               flights  to  India are packed at this time of
                               the year. Also, please note that currency ex-
                               change will not be possible at the Conference
                               Venue.

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                               Tata Research Development and Design Centre
                               1, Mangaldas Road
                               Pune 411 001
                               INDIA
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