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7th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM IN RUSSIA (CSR 2012)
July 3-7, 2012, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
http://agora.guru.ru/display.php?conf=csr2012

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CSR 2012 intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science. It is the seventh conference in a series of regular events previously held in St.Petersburg (2006), Ekaterinburg (2007), Moscow (2008), Novosibirsk (2009), Kazan (2010), and St.Petersburg (2011). The proceedings are published in Springer LNCS.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: December 11, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2012
Conference dates: July 3-7, 2012

As has become tradition, there will be YANDEX AWARDs for the best paper and for the best student paper!

VENUE
Nizhni Novgorod was founded by Prince Yuri (George) Vsevolodovich in 1221 on the confluence of two great Russian rivers, Volga and Oka. It is a large city accessible by multiple international airlines including regular Lufthansa flights from Frankfurt.

TOPICS include, but are not limited to:
algorithms and data structures
automata and formal languages
combinatorial optimization
constraint solving
computational complexity
cryptography
combinatorics in computer science
computational models and concepts
algorithms for concurrent and distributed systems, networks
proof theory and applications of logic to computer science
model checking
automated reasoning
deductive methods

INVITED SPEAKERS include
Lev Beklemishev (MI RAS)
Mikolaj Bojanczyk (Warsaw)
Julien Cassaigne (Marseille)
Jaroslav Nesetril (Prague)
Pavel Pevzner (UCSD and SPbAU RAS)
TURING LECTURE connected to the THE ALAN TURING YEAR 2012 will be given by
Yuri Matiyasevich (PDMI RAS)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Lev Afraimovich (Nizhni Novgorod)
Susanne Albers (Berlin)
Andris Ambainis (Riga)
Alberto Bertoni ((Milan)
Bruno Durand (Marseilles)
Edward A. Hirsch (PDMI RAS)
Juraj Hromkovic (ETH Zürich)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku, chair)
Markus Lohrey (Leipzig)
Ernst Mayr (Munich)
Ilya Mironov (Microsoft Research)
Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Alexander Razborov (Chicago)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Jiri Sgall (Prague)
Alexander Shen (Moscow)
Arseny Shur (Ekaterinburg)
Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen)
Nikolai Vereshchagin (Moscow)
Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven)
Mikhail Vyalyi (Dorodnicyn Computing Center RAS)

ORGANIZERS
N.I.Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Michail Prilutskii (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 12 pages in the LNCS format (LaTeX, as pdf; final version with source), in English; instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
Proofs and other material omitted due to space constraints are to be put into a clearly marked appendix to be read at discretion of the referees. Papers must present original (and not previously published) research. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Springer's LNCS series.

Submissions should be uploaded to the EasyChair Conference system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csr2012

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Web http://agora.guru.ru/display.php?conf=csr2012
Email csr2012.conf at gmail.com