| Tree Automata and Tree Languages | Magnus Steinby, Turku | |
| Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation | Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Bremen | |
| Formal Power Series | Werner Kuich, Vienna | |
| DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments | Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden | |
| Membrane Computing | Gheorghe Paun, Tarragona | |
| Splicing Systems | Rani Siromoney, Madras | |
| Aqueous Computing | Tom Head, Binghamton NY | |
| Developmental Languages vs. DNA Computing | Arto Salomaa, Turku | |
| Cellular Automata | Giancarlo Mauri, Milano | |
| Quantum Computing | Cristian Calude, Auckland | |
| Formal Language Theory and the Description of Natural Languages | TBD | |
| Context-Free Grammar Parsing | Giorgio Satta, Padua | |
| Probabilistic Parsing | Marc Jan Nederhof, Groningen | |
| Tree Adjoining Grammars | James Rogers, Richmond IN | |
| Categorial Grammars | Michael Moortgart, Utrecht | |
| Weighted Finite-State Transducers | Mehryar Mohri, Florham Park NJ | |
| Formal Languages and Logic | Vincenzo Manca, Verona | |
| Grammatical Inference and Learning | Colin de la Higuera, St. Etienne | |
| Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life | Jozef Kelemen, Opava | |
| Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition | Rudolf Freund, Vienna | |
| Automata-Based Techniques for Verification and Other Decision Problems | Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara CA | |
| Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems | Jetty Kleijn, Leiden | |
| Text Retrieval | Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Santiago de Chile | |
| Codes | Fernando Guzmán, Binghamton NY | |
| Cryptography | Valtteri Niemi, Helsinki |