WORDS is a field of research that has grown within several branches of mathematics and that frequently appears in problems of theoretical computer science. Indeed, words are central objects in automata theory, and in fact in any standard model of computing. In recent years novel applications of concepts in this area have emerged from algorithmics, biology, linguistics, mathematics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the algebraic aspects of the combinatorics on words and their applications. Special attention will be paid to the relations with automata theory.