The Monday Meetings

The Monday meetings of the Algorithms Group of the University of Verona take place every Monday at 5 p.m. (Italian time), and have been taking place online (zoom) since March 2020. We have decided to stick to the online mode (zoom), since several of our regular members are physically in other places (in other cities, in other countries, or even on other continents!)

Working language is English. If you are interested in participating, send me an email.

The person in charge of coordinating the meetings is Francesco Masillo (francesco dot masillo at univr dot it).

List of talks of previous years:


Spring Semester 2023/2024



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Mon, Mar. 11, 2024 Luca Parmigiani A BWT-based algorithm for random de Bruijn sequence construction Zsuzsanna Lipták and Luca Parmigiani: A BWT-based algorithm for random de Bruijn sequence construction. Accepted at LATIN 2024. Paper here: link. Code is available (in C++ and python) at Luca's github.
Mon, Mar. 18, 2024 Davide Cenzato Sketching and Streaming for Dictionary Compression Ruben Becker, Matteo Canton, Davide Cenzato, Sung-Hwan Kim, Bojana Kodric, Nicola Prezza: Sketching and Streaming for Dictionary Compression, accepted at DCC 2024.
Mon, Mar. 25, 2024 -- -- --
Mon, April 1, 2024 -- (Easter Monday) --
Mon, April 8, 2024 Elena Biagi Finimizers: Variable-length bounded-frequency minimizers for k-mer sets Jarno N. Alanko, Elena Biagi, Simon J. Puglisi: Finimizers: Variable-length bounded-frequency minimizers for k-mer sets. Paper on bioarxiv, code: Elena's github.
Mon, Apr. 15, 2024 Giuseppe Romana Repetitiveness Measures for 2D strings Giuseppe Romana, Marinella Sciortino, Cristian Urbina: Repetitiveness Measures for 2D strings, see here for arxiv version.
Mon, April 22, 2024 Ferdinando Cicalese On the complexity and approximability of Bounded access Lempel Ziv coding Ferdinando Cicalese and Francesca Ugazio: On the complexity and approximability of Bounded access Lempel Ziv coding. Paper on arxiv: here.
Mon, April 29, 2023 Luca Parmigiani    
Mon, May 6, 2024 Francesco Masillo    
Mon, May 13, 2024 tbd    
Mon, May 20, 2024 -- (no meeting due to San Zeno on 21 May) --
Mon, May 27, 2024 Davide Cenzato    
Mon, June 3, 2024 tbd    
Mon, June 10, 2024 Zsuzsanna Lipták    
Mon, June 17, 2024 tbd    


Fall Semester 2023/2024



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Mon, Oct. 9, 2023 all Introduction and distribution of dates  
Mon, Oct. 16, 2023 Giuseppe Romana Circular String Attractors: an algorithmic overview Giuseppe Romana: Algorithmic View on Circular String Attractors, ICTCS 2023, Palermo, 13-15 Sept. 2023 (paper)
Mon, Oct. 23, 2023 Francesco Masillo Matching Statistics speed up BWT construction Francesco Masillo: Matching Statistics speed up BWT construction, ESA 2023, Amsterdam, 4-6 Sept. 2023 (paper)
Mon, Oct. 30, 2023 Andrea Cracco Extremely fast construction and querying of compacted and colored de Bruijn graphs with GGCAT Andrea Cracco, Alexandru I. Tomescu: Extremely fast construction and querying of compacted and colored de Bruijn graphs with GGCAT. Genome Research 2023 (paper)
Mon, Nov. 6, 2023 Elena Biagi On the number of equal-letter runs of the Bijective Burrows-Wheeler Transform Elena Biagi, Davide Cenzato, Zsuzsanna Lipták and Giuseppe Romana: On the number of equal-letter runs of the Bijective Burrows-Wheeler Transform, ICTCS 2023, Palermo, 13-15 Sept. 2023 (paper).
Mon, Nov. 13, 2023 Davide Cenzato On indexing string collections using the extended BWT Christina Boucher, Davide Cenzato, Zsuzsanna Lipták, Massimiliano Rossi, Marinella Sciortino: r-indexing the eBWT SPIRE 2021: 3-12.
Mon, Nov. 20, 2023 Cristian Urbina Grammar Boosting: A New Technique for Proving Lower Bounds for Computation over Compressed Data, by De and Kempa Rajat De and Dominik Kempa (Stony Brook University): Grammar Boosting: A New Technique for Proving Lower Bounds for Computation over Compressed Data, accepted at SODA24, arXiv version:
Mon, Nov. 27, 2023 Zsuzsanna Lipták A shorthand universal cycle for fixed-weight binary strings by Ruskey, Sawada, and Williams (part 1) Frank Ruskey, Joe Sawada, Aaron Williams: De Bruijn sequences for fixed-weight binary strings, SIAM J Discrete Math. Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 605-617 (2012)
Mon, Dec. 4, 2023 Martina Lucà Efficient matching statistics calculation in large text collections Project work with Francesco Masillo
Mon, Dec. 11, 2023 Zsuzsanna Lipták A shorthand universal cycle for fixed-weight binary strings by Ruskey, Sawada, and Williams (part 2) Frank Ruskey, Joe Sawada, Aaron Williams: De Bruijn sequences for fixed-weight binary strings, SIAM J Discrete Math. Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 605-617 (2012)
Mon, Dec. 18, 2023 -- -- --
Mon, Jan. 8, 2024 Zsuzsanna Lipták On the Burrows-Wheeler Transform of string collections Practice for my online talk in the series 'Primavera dell'Informatica Teorica', given on 11 Jan. 2024, see here: talk abstract and video


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