- Henning Fernau (University of Trier), Modern Aspects of Complexity within Formal Languages
- Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław), Searching and Indexing Compressed Text
- Edward A. Lee (University of California, Berkeley), Observation, Interaction, Determinism, and Free Will
- Vadim Lozin (University of Warwick), From Words to Graphs, and Back
- Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki), Pattern Discovery in Biological Sequences