Subject: Ceremony Rozenberg and Int.Coll. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues, on February 14, 2002 the Technical University of Berlin will confer on Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden, The Netherlands and University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) the honorary doctorate Dr. rer. nat. honoris causa. On this occasion, an International Colloquium on Graph Transformation and DNA-Computing will be held, sponsored by the ESPRIT Working Group APPLIGRAPH (Applications of Graph Transformation) and the Technical University of Berlin. With this message we would like to invite you to the ACADEMIC CEREMONY OF AWARDING THE HONORARY DOCTORATE TO PROF. DR. GRZEGORZ ROZENBERG by the Technical University of Berlin on February 14, 2002, 15:00 - 18:00 (registration deadline: January 25, 2002, no registration fee) and to participate at the INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON GRAPH TRANSFORMATION AND DNA-COMPUTING organized by ESPRIT WG APPLIGRAPH and Technical University Berlin, February 14, 2002, 9:00 - 13:00 (registration deadline: January 15, 2002, registration fee: 100 EUR). The International Colloquium and the Academic Ceremony will take place at Technical University of Berlin Main Building, Room H 1028 Straße des 17. Juni 135 D-10587 Berlin, Germany An online registration from for both events is provided on the website http://tfs.cs.tu-berlin.de/GT-DNA02 We are looking forward to your registration and your visit in Berlin. With best regards Hartmut Ehrig, Roswitha Bardohl (Local Organizers) ******************************************************************************* PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON GRAPH TRANSFORMATION AND DNA-COMPUTING February 14, 2002, 9:00-13.00, TU Berlin, Room H 1035 8:45 Registration 9:00 Opening Hartmut Ehrig (Local Organizer), Berlin, Germany Hans-Jörg Kreowski (APPLIGRAPH Coordinator), Bremen, Germany 9:15- 9:45 Language Theory in DNA Self-Assembly Erik Winfree, Pasadena, USA 9:45-10:15 Impact of Biology on Language Theory: Watson-Crick DOL Systems Arto Salomaa, Turku, Finland 10:15-10:45 Solving Graph Problems in a Rule-Based Framework Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Bremen, Germany Coffee Break 11:15-11:45 Finite State Verification of Causal Properties and Graph Transformation Systems Ugo Montanari, Pisa, Italy 11:45-12:15 The Impact of Graph Rewriting on Software Engineering Gregor Engels, Paderborn, Germany 12:15-12:45 Graph Grammars for Visual Languages: Armour or Skeleton? Roswitha Bardohl, Julia Padberg, Gabriele Taentzer, Berlin, Germany 13:00 Lunch 15:00-18.00 Academic Ceremony (program see below) 20:00 Dinner ******************************************************************************* PROGRAM ACADEMIC CEREMONY OF AWARDING THE HONORARY DOCTORATE TO PROF. DR. GRZEGORZ ROZENBERG BY THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN February 14, 2002, 15:00-18.00, TU Berlin, Room H 1035 - Welcome by the President of the Technical University of Berlin Prof. Dr. Ewers (Berlin) - Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Prof. Dr. Wolisz (Berlin) - Scientific Cooperation Highlights Prof. Dr. Ehrig, Prof. Dr. Mahr (Berlin) - Laudatio Prof. Dr. Brauer (München) - Award of the Dr. rer. nat. honoris causa to Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg Prof. Dr. Ewers (Berlin) - The Nature of Computation and Computation in Nature Prof. Dr. Rozenberg (Leiden and Boulder) - Special Event (Surprise) - Reception cca 16:30 - 18:00 ******************************************************************************* REGISTRATION DETAILS PLEASE USE THE ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE http://tfs.cs.tu-berlin.de/GT-DNA02 (..) Academic Ceremony "Rozenberg" (NO REGISTRATION FEE) Registration Deadline: January 25, 2002 (..) International Colloquium Registration Fee: (..) 100 Euro before January 15, 2002 (..) 150 Euro later Registration fee includes coffee, lunch and dinner buffet, and documentation of colloquium and ceremony. Registration fee has to be transferred to: Name of Bank: Berliner Volksbank SWIFT-Code: BEVO DEBB Bank Code: 100 900 00 Holder of Account: VFSWT Account No: 88 41 04 20 00 Purpose: Coll. GT-DNA-02 (Prof. Ehrig) Remark: VFSWT means "Verein für Freunde der Software-Technik", i.e., Association for Friends of Software Engineering ******************************************************************************* HOTEL RESERVATION DETAILS We recommend the following hotels near TU Berlin and kindly request you to make your own reservation: Berlin Excelsior Hotel Hardenbergstr. 14 10634 Berlin (Charlottenburg) Tel.: +49-30-3155-22 Fax: +49-30-31 55-1053 e-mail: info@blueband.de http://holidaycityeurope.com/excelsior-berlin/index.htm Hotel Heidelberg Berlin Knesebeckstr. 15 10623 Berlin (Charlottenburg) Tel.: +49-30-3130103 Fax: +49-30-3135870 http://www.hotel-heidelberg-berlin.de/ Hotel Gates Knesebeckstraße 8-9 10623 Berlin Tel: +49 30.311 06-0 Fax: +49 30.312 20 60 Email: info@hotel-gates.com http://www.hotel-gates.com/ Berlin Plaza Hotel Knesebeckstr. 63 10719 Berlin Tel. 030-884 13 444 Fax 030-884 13 754 http://Berlin.HotelGuide.net/data/h100027.htm Other hotels in Berlin: http://holidaycityeurope.com/berlin_hotels/