William F. (Bill) Smyth
Panic
Welcome to my home page!
You are Visitor No. 116566 since 1 December 2001.
Regarded at its birth in 2007 as a one-off event,
StringMasters
seems to be here to stay.
Since 2007 it has been held at least once every year at a large variety of places:
Perth, Western Australia; Stellenbosch, South Africa;
Palermo & Verona, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; Rouen, France;
Warsaw, Poland; and several times more at McMaster University.
In 2015 for the first time it was sponsored by the
Centre for Combinatorics
on Words & Applications (CCWA) of Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Papers emerging from StringMasters 2007 & 2008 were published in a special issue 97-3 (2009) of
Fundamenta Informaticae Journal of Discrete Algorithms 10 (2012)
and JDA a special issue of the latter journal
also published papers from the 2012-2013 meetings.
Please take note that the
International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
held its 2017 meeting
17-21 July in Newcastle, Australia,
to commemorate Mirka Miller ,
one of the founders of IWOCA,
my old friend and colleague,
who passed away in January 2016.
In 2020, the year of the pandemic,
IWOCA ,
under the supervision of
Ralf Klasing ,
went on-line, one of the first scientific gatherings to do so.
In 2022, StringMasters was hosted by
IWOCA 2022
at the University of Trier,
co-chaired by Cristina Bazgan
and Henning Fernau .
News!
In 2016 (a long time ago now), to mark my 80th birthday,
Theoretical Computer Science
published a
special issue on Stringology.
Current Status
Emeritus Professor,
Algorithms Research Group ,
Department of Computing & Software (C&S) ,
McMaster University
Professor,
School of Computational Science & Engineering ,
McMaster University
Office Art Bourne Building Extension ABB-C535
Mobile 1-905-523-7568
Electronic Mail smyth``AT''mcmaster``FULL STOP''ca
Education
1990 Curtin University of Technology , Ph.D. (Computing Science )
1983 University of Ottawa , M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics )
1957 University of Toronto , B.A. (Pure Mathematics )
Areas of Interest (see C&S Algorithms Research Group )
Combinatorial Algorithms, Especially Algorithms on Strings
Graph Theory & Its Applications
Applications to Bioinformatics
Various Social/Cultural Issues
Membership in Professional Organizations
1966 Association for Computing Machinery
1966 American Mathematical Society
1966 Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
1974 Mathematical Association of America
1983 British Computer Society (Fellow)
1987 Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
1989 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
1990 Institute of Combinatorics & Its Applications
1990 Engineering Council (Chartered Engineer)
2006 International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (Steering Committee Member, resigned 2020)
2007 StringMasters (Founder)
2009 Mathematical Reviews (Reviewer)
2012 Mitacs College of Reviewers
Membership in Other Organizations
1986 Mosman Park Tennis Club
1995 Society for Academic Freedom & Scholarship
2001 Rosedale Tennis Club
2011 Never Again Group
Experience Current Teaching & Supervision Refereed Publications Selected Publications Can We Compute Runs Efficiently? Are Three Squares Impossible? Simon's Collection of Test Strings Sarah Banyassady: Code for Approximate Repeats using Multiple Spaced Seeds Family
Open Letter to the Editor, MAA Focus
Last revised:
Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 17:03:05 EDT
