<div dir="ltr">[Apologies for multiple copies]<br><br>Dear all,<br><br>Let me advertise our next ERATO MMSD project 
<span class="gmail-m_7861671734214715659gmail-m_-7876995990110391283gmail-m_-2476393942481051209gmail-m_6832220814482882016gmail-m_547872329642204051m_1674442457263079573gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_7861671734214715659gmail-m_-7876995990110391283gmail-m_-2476393942481051209gmail-m_6832220814482882016gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_7861671734214715659gmail-m_-7876995990110391283gmail-m_-2476393942481051209gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_7861671734214715659gmail-m_-7876995990110391283gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">colloquium</span></span></span></span></span> talk by Takeo Uramoto on 22 February, 16:30-. Please find the 
title and the abstract below. You are all invited.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>--<br>Natsuki Urabe<br><a href="mailto:urabenatsuki@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp" target="_blank">urabenatsuki@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.j<wbr>p</a><br>The University of Tokyo, ERATO MMSD<br><br>-----<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b4fb0739-b606-146b-a5f9-9d34f3e42b34"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thu 22 February 2018, 16:30–18:00</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ERATO MMSD Takebashi Site Common Room 3</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><a href="http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd/access.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://group-mmm.org/eratommsd/access.html</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Takeo Uramoto (Tohoku University), </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recent developments in algebraic language theory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The purpose of this talk is to introduce a recent (2008~) active research trend in  algebraic language theory. This field, among other approaches to formal languages, is characterized by its methodology: one reduces combinatorial / logical problems on formal languages (say, regular languages) into some tractable problems on algebraic structures (resp., finite semigroups). Recent works in the last decade shed new lights on this field (or its methodology) from the viewpoint of Stone-type duality theorem; and most importantly, indicated several new research directions extending classical frameworks. In this talk, based on our own works, we introduce this research trend (and its background motivation) and then carefully discuss its possible future directions. </span></p><br></div>