The GAMES-EPIT Spring School 2011 is the 38th School in the series of "Ecole de Printemps d'Informatique Théorique"
(http://epit.univ-paris-diderot.fr/) and is supported by the ESF project "GAMES for Design and Verification" (http://www.games.rwth-aachen.de/).

Programme
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The school will consist of nine lectures presenting important developments in language theory, automata, and games:

* Basic topology and game determinacy (Jacques Duparc, Lausanne)
* Basic stochastic games (Hugo Gimbert, Bordeaux)
* Basics about algebraic approach to languages (Marc Zeitoun, Bordeaux)
* Stochastic pushdown games (Antonín Ku?era, Brno)
* Algebraic approach to tree languages (Miko?aj Boja?czyk, Warsaw)
* Profinite approach to language theory (Jean-Éric Pin, Paris)
* Games, recursion schemes, and semantics (Luke Ong, Oxford)
* Automata with counters (Thomas Colcombet, Paris)
* Automatic structures (Markus Lohrey, Leipzig)

The lectures are intended to be accessible to a wide audience, but some familiarity with automata theory and logic is recommended.

Date and Venue
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The GAMES-EPIT Spring School 2011 will take place from Monday, May 23rd to Friday, May 27th, in France, near Bordeaux, in Carcans-Maubuisson.

Participation and Registration
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The GAMES-EPIT Spring School 2011 addresses primarily to PhD students and young researchers, but more senior participants are also very welcome.

The number of participants will be limited to 90.

Participants will have to pay a contribution of 350 Euro to cover accommodation, breakfasts, lunches, dinners and coffee breaks for the whole duration of the school. Thanks to the sponsorship of CNRS, the school is free for full-time CNRS researchers. ESF-GAMES offers a number of grants for other participants.

Registration is accessible through the  web-page of the conference.
http://games-epit.labri.fr/

Grants
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The school can offer about 20 grants covering the costs of the stay. There will be also a small number of grants for covering travel costs. The applications for the two types of grants should be done through the school's web-page.

Deadlines
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Registration with grant: March 7th

Grant notifications: March 17th

Registration without grant: April 4th