Invited Speakers at ICALP 2008

This is my second news item on the organization of ICALP 2008 (7-11 July 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland). On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to give you the preliminary list of confirmed invited speakers. These are:

• Ran Canetti (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and MIT, USA),
• Bruno Courcelle (Labri, Universitè Bordeaux, France),
• Javier Esparza (Technische Universität München, Germany),
  
• Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google, USA) and
  
• Peter Winkler (Dartmouth, USA).

In addition, the recipients of the EATCS award and of the Gödel prize 2008 will deliver talks.

Anna, Magnus and I are very glad to be able to offer participants at ICALP 2008 this outstanding set of invited talks.

Preliminary call for workshops and call for papers will be posted on this blog and on mailing lists very soon. Watch this space if you want to be the first to know!