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The Summer 2005 program announcement is available online in pdf format.
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.
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. A detailed schedule for the entire eight weeks is also available.
| Week 1 | orientation, preliminaries on partial words, description of problems, creation of teams, basic XHTML and CSS, welcome breakfast and dinner |
| Week 2 | team meetings, individual LaTeX lessons, technical writing |
| Week 3 | guest speakers Dr. Paul Duvall and Ajay Chriscoe, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 4 | guest speaker Dr. Nancy Green, initial student presentations, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 5 | team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 6 | guest speaker Stacy Duncan, team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 7 | team meetings, technical writing |
| Week 8 | team meetings, technical writing, final student presentations, farewell picnic |
Crystal Dawn Davis 
Margaret Anne Moorefield
David Dakota Blair
Texas A&M University - College Station
Jonathan Troy Britton
University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Kevin William Corcoran
University of Missouri - Columbia
Joel Robert Dodge
City University of New York - Hunter College
Rebeca Virginia Lewis
Tennessee Tech University
Jenell Elizabeth Nyberg
University of Iowa
Nathan David Wetzler
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
Jeffery Zhang
Cornell University
Papers and Websites
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, D. Dakota Blair, and Rebeca V. Lewis,
“Equations on partial words,”
in R. Kralovic and P. Urzyczyn (Eds.),
MFCS 2006 31st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, August 28-September 1, 2006,
Stara Lesna, Slovakia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4162, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006, pp.
167-178.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Jonathan T. Britton, Mihai Cucuringu, Joel Dodge, and
Margaret Moorefield,
“Counting unbordered partial
words.”
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, Kevin Corcoran and Jenell Nyberg,
“Periodicity properties on partial words,”
Information and Computation,
Special issue for LATA 2007, 1st International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, March 29-April 4, 2007, Tarragona,
Spain, to appear.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, C.D. Davis, Joel Dodge, Robert Mercas and Margaret Moorefield,
“Unbordered Partial Words,” Discrete Applied Mathemartics, To appear.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri and Nathan D. Wetzler,
“Partial words and the critical factorization theorem
revisited,” Theoretical Computer Science, 385 (2007)
179-192.
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F. Blanchet-Sadri and Jeffery Zhang,
“Critical factorization theorem.”
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F. Blanchet-Sadri, D. Dakota Blair and R.V. Lewis,
“Equations on Partial Words,”
Theoretical Informatics and Applications, To appear.
Presentations
F. Blanchet-Sadri, “Partial words and three periodicity results,” University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, October 27, 2005. F. Blanchet-Sadri, “On partial words,” University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, October 28, 2005. 
F. Blanchet-Sadri, “Mots partiels: Equations et Applications,” LIAFA Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications, Paris, France, November 18, 2005. 
Nathan D. Wetzler, "Partial Words and the Critical Factorization Theorem," SCRA 2006-FIM XIII, Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques, New University of Lisbon-Tomar Polytechnic Institute, Lisbon-Tomar, Portugal, September 2006 (Talk for Session on Semigroups and Languages). Joel Dodge, "Counting Unbordered Partial Words," SCRA 2006-FIM XIII, Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques, New University of Lisbon-Tomar Polytechnic Institute, Lisbon-Tomar, Portugal, September 2006 (Talk for Session on Undergraduate Research in Interdisciplinary Mathematics). Joel Dodge, Francine Blanchet-Sadri and Nathan Wetzler at SCRA 2006-FIM XIII, Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques, New University of Lisbon-Tomar Polytechnic Institute, Tomar, Portugal, September 2006.
Dakota Blair, "Equations on Partial Words," MFCS 2006, 31st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, August 28-September 1, 2006, Stara Lesna, Slovakia (joint work with F. Blanchet-Sadri and Rebeca V. Lewis). Dakota Blair presenting the paper entitled "Equations on Partial Words" at MFCS 2006, 31st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Stara Lesna, Slovakia, August 29, 2006.
F. Blanchet-Sadri, “Fine and Wilf's Periodicity Result on Partial Words and Consequences,” LATA 2007, 1st International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, March 29-April 4, 2007, Tarragona, Spain (joint work with Kevin Corcoran and Jenell Nyberg). Kevin Corcoran at l'Arc de Bera during the excursion on Sunday April 1, 2007 of LATA 2007 1st International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, Tarragona, Spain, March 29-April 4, 2007.
Conference
We attended the FOCS 2005 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science from October 22 to October 25, 2005 in Pittsburgh, PA.