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The tutorial Preliminaries on Partial Words by Dr. Francine Blanchet-Sadri is available.
The powerpoint presentation entitled Basic XHTML and CSS by Margaret Moorefield is available.
The LaTeX Tutorial by Stephanie Rednour and Robert Misior is available.
The Beamer Tutorial by Charles T. Batts is available.
Photo Album week 1 week 2 week 3 week 4 week 5 week 6 week 7 week 8
For a detailed account of a specific week, click on the week number.
| Week 1 | orientation, preliminaries on partial words, description of problems, creation of teams, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 2 | LaTeX tutorial, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 3 | basic XHTML and CSS, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 4 | initial student presentations, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 5 | team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 6 | team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 7 | Beamer tutorial, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 8 | team meetings, technical writing, final student presentations |
Robert Mercas 
Gautam Sisodia
Lisa Bromberg
New College of Florida
Emily Clader
Columbia University-Columbia College
Justin Fowler
North Carolina State University
Gary Gramajo
Florida State University
Andy Kalcic
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Travis Mandel
Tulane University
Geoffrey Scott
Dartmouth College
Olivia Simpson
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Tracy Weyand
University of Central Florida
Karl Zipple
Northwestern University
Papers and Websites
- F. Blanchet-Sadri, L. Bromberg and Karl Zipple,
“"Remarks on Two Nonstandard Versions of Periodicity in Words,”
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 19, 2008,
pp 1439-1448.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, N.C. Brownstein, A. Kalcic, J. Palumbo and T. Weyand,
“Unavoidable Sets of Partial Words,” Theory of Computing Systems, Vol. 45, 2009, pp 381-406.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, E. Clader and O. Simpson,
“Border Correlations of Partial Words,”
Theory of Computing Systems, to appear.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Justin Fowler, Joshua Gafni and Kevin Wilson,
“Combinatorics on Partial Word Correlations.”
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Travis Mandel and Gautam Sisodia,
“Computing strong periods in partial words.”
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Robert Mercas and Geoffrey Scott,
“A
generalization of Thue Freeness for Partial Words,” Theoretical
Computer Science, Vol. 410, 2009, pp 793-800.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Robert Mercas and Geoffrey Scott,
“Counting Distinct Squares in Partial Words,”
In E. Csuhaj-Varju and Z. Esik (Eds.), AFL 2008, 12th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages,
May 27-30, 2008, Balatonfüred, Hungary, Proceedings, pp 122-133 (an extended version to appear in Acta Cybernetica).
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F. Blanchet-Sadri and Brian Shirey,
“Periods and Binary Partial Words,” WORDS 2009, the 7th International Conference on Words, September 14-18, 2009, Salerno, Italy.
Honors
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Travis Mandel received Tulane's Glendy Burke Medal in Mathematics in
2008. This is awarded (to a graduating student) for excellence in the
field of mathematics.
Presentations
F. Blanchet-Sadri, “Counting Unbordered Partial Words”, College of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, May 23, 2008 (joint work with Mihai Cucuringu, Joel Dodge and Robert Mercas). Geoffrey Scott, “Counting Distinct Squares in Partial Words,” AFL 2008, 12th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages, May 27-30, 2008, Balatonfüred, Hungary (joint work with F. Blanchet-Sadri and Robert Mercas). Geoffrey Scott presenting the paper entitled “Counting Distinct Squares in Partial Words” at AFL 2008, 12th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages, Balatonfüred, Hungary, May 28, 2008.
Conferences
F. Blanchet-Sadri was invited for a visit at the University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, May 2008.