From: srlm@ukc.ac.uk (S.R.L.Meira)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: IX School of Computing, Recife, Brazil
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:34:45 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


IX School of Computing              ++ IX Escola de Computacao

Recife, Brazil,   July, 1994        ++ Recife, Brasil, julho de 1994

Informatics Dept.                   ++ Departamento de Informatica
Federal University of Pernambuco    ++ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco



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The (Brazilian) School of Computing is a bi-annual event, promoted by the
main Computer Science departments of Brazil, with the aim of keeping the
student and research community of the country up to date with the
international state of the art in the area. The School is one of
the major Computer Science events in Latin America.

In its 9th edition, the school will be under the responsibility of the
Departamento de Informatica at The Federal University of Pernambuco at
Recife, as one of the events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the
Postgraduate Programme in Computer Science in Recife.

The School consists of a number of basic courses (usually 6) given
by Brazilian scientists and aimed at last year undergraduate/early
post graduate students and other 3/4 advanced courses given at PhD level.
To every basic course there is a corresponding book (up to 250 pages),
which is printed by the school and freely distributed to all attendants.
The authors retain their copyright on the material and get a number
of free copies.

There is also a series of invited lectures given by leading experts in
their fields -- Maurice Nivat, Richard Karp, Zohar Manna, Ken Thompson,
David Harel, Helder Coelho, Michael Luby, Matthew Henessy and Gaston Gonnet
are among those who came to previous schools.

The attendance to the last schools was at least 300 participants and came
near to 1.000 at one time. We are planning for 600 people to attend the school
in 1994, out of which up to 200 (from within Brazil) will be supported
by travel and/or living scholarships.

The school's steering committee chooses the courses from book
proposals submitted by prospective authors, describing the contents,
supporting bibliography, course plan for a series of 5 lectures lasting
90 minutes each and author's curriculum vitae.
The invited lecturers are chosen by the committee among
world renowned scientists.

The basic books must be written in Portuguese, which is also the
teaching language for the corresponding courses.
The PhD level texts and lectures must be in English.
Out of the expected audience of 600, 150 are expected to have
a good command of the English language and everybody else is supposed to
(at least) read well and follow slow-talk.

The school will fully support living and travel expenses of ONE AUTHOR
PER BOOK/COURSE, as well as paying a small pro labore per book.

A formal CALL FOR BOOK/COURSE PROPOSALS will be issued soon, stating
further details, naming the committee and important deadlines.
Meanwhile, we suggest to those possibly interested to get in touch with the
e-mail address given at the end of this message.

On behalf of the steering committee,

Prof. Silvio Meira
Head of the Post-Graduate Division
Department of Informatics
Federal University Pernambuco at Recife, Brazil
PO Box 7851, 50732-970.

Silvio@di.ufpe.br




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Silvio Lemos Meira
silvio@di.ufpe.br
po box 7851, 50732-970 recife brazil