CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                        CONCUR & PODC 2008
                          Toronto, Canada
                        August 17-23, 2008


27th Annual ACM Symposium on               19th International
 Principles of Distributed       &     Conference on Concurrency
      Computing (PODC)                      Theory (CONCUR)
   www.podc.org/podc2008               www.cse.yorku.ca/concur08


Special Events
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- Nancy Lynch Celebration:  Sixty and Beyond
- Presentation of 2008 Dijkstra Prize

Invited Talks
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Hagit Attiya        Technion
Tevfik Bultan       University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Druschel      Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Michael Fischer     Yale University
Seth Gilbert        EPFL
Joseph Halpern      Cornell University
Maurice Herlihy     Brown University
Prakash Panangaden  McGill University
Shaz Qadeer         Microsoft Research
Roberto Segala      University of Verona
Don Towsley         University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jennifer Welch      Texas A&M University

Workshops
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- Workshop on Approximate Behavioural Equivalences (ABE 08)
- Workshop on Concurrency in Enterprise Systems (COINES 08)
- 5th International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing 
         (DIALM-POMC 2008)
- Workshop on Distributed computing, Concurrency theory, and 
         Verification (DisCoVeri 2)
- 15th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency (EXPRESS'08)
- Workshop on Formal Methods for Wireless Systems (FMWS 2008)
- 10th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State 
         Systems (INFINITY 2008)
- 6th International Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency (SecCo 08)
- Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (YR-CONCUR 2008)

Registration and Accomodation
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Local information, accommodation information and a link
to the registration website can be found at the CONCUR
and PODC websites.  Note that some of the hotel reservation
deadlines are as early as July 17.  The early registration
deadline for PODC and CONCUR is August 1.

Workshops will have separate registration, available later.