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SIAM Activity group on Discrete Mathematics
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(Number 2006.05)
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CONTENTS:
1. Editor's Note
2. Random Combinatorial Structures Conference
<http://math.unl.edu/pi/events/rcs>
Lincoln, NE - April 21-22, 2007
3. Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference
<http://www.math.washington.edu/~gscc07/>
Seattle, WA - April 21-22, 2007
4. (Your Regular) Workshop on Extremal Graphs and
Hypergraphs
<http://www.math.cmu.edu/~extr/>
Pittsburgh, PA - May 5-6, 2007
5. 20th Cumberland Conference on Discrete Mathematics
<http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~rg/cumber07.html>
Atlanta, GA - May 17-19, 2007
6. Carleton Discrete Mathematics Workshop 2007
<http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/0607/discrete_math/>
Ottawa, Canada - May 25-26, 2007
7. Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference
2007
<http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mreza/CANADAM/>
Banff, Alberta, Canada - May 28-31, 2007
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1. *** Editor's Note ***
-----Announcements of some upcoming conferences.
chronological order.
I placed them in
The URL for the newsletter archive is
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/rymartin/dm-net.html
-- Ryan
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2. *** Random Combinatorial Structures conference - Lincoln, NE April 21-22, 2007 ***
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This is a first announcement for the Random Combinatorial
Structures conference (http://math.unl.edu/pi/events/rcs) to be
held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 21st and 22nd
2007. Random Combinatorial Structures is associated with the 11th
Annual Rowlee Lecture (http://math.unl.edu/pi/events/Rowlee2007),
to be given by Béla Bollobás on April 20th, 2007. The conference
will bring together many prominent researchers in the field of
probabilistic combinatorics. The main purpose of this meeting is
to create an environment in which interactions and research links
between established senior faculty and younger researchers (both
graduate students and new Ph.D.s) can flourish. To this end, there
will be nine plenary talks and the rest of the time will be
devoted to informal interactions. We encourage everyone with an
interest in this field to attend. We hope to be able to provide
lodging for graduate students and recent graduates, as well as
some travel support, conditional on NSF funding.
In addition to a second lecture by Prof. Bollobás, the following
people have agreed to speak:
Paul Balister
József Balogh
Joshua Cooper
Alan Frieze
Zoltán Füredi
Boris Pittel
Prasad Tetali
Catherine Yan
If you are interested in attending please email
mailto:rcs@math.unl.edu. Please forward this announcement to
people, especially graduate students, who might be interested.
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3. *** Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference - Seattle, WA April 21-22, 2007 ***
-----We would like to announce that the third annual Graduate Student
Combinatorics Conference will be held at the University of
Washington in Seattle, WA on April 21-22, 2007!
As its name suggests, this conference is for and about graduate
student research. It will feature contributed 20-minute talks
from graduate students, a keynote address by Professor Vic Reiner
of the University of Minnesota, and a social program. More
information and an online registration form are now available at
the conference's website at
http://www.math.washington.edu/~gscc07/
While you are encouraged to apply to speak, you do not have to
speak in order to attend the conference, and you do not need to
present original research in order to give a talk -- you can
simply talk about an appropriately advanced topic that interests
you.
Some support will be available, depending on funding and when you
apply.
Please consult the above website for further details. We welcome
your inquiries; if you have any, please direct them to gscc07 (at)
math.washington.edu.
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4. *** (Your Regular) Workshop on Extremal Graphs and Hypergraphs
- Pittsburgh, PA - May 5-6, 2007 ***
-----What: (Your Regular) Workshop on Extremal Graphs and Hypergraphs
Why: The topic of this informal workshop is extremal problems for
graphs and hypergraphs, with a special interest in the Regularity
Lemma.
Where: CMU campus, Pittsburgh, PA
When: May 5-6, 2007
Who: Invited Speakers
* Penny Haxell (Waterloo)
* Benny Sudakov (Princeton)
* Balázs Szegedy (Toronto)
* Endre Szemerédi (Rutgers)
Who else: Contributed talks are welcome too. Also, we expect to a
have a tutorial on the Regularity Lemma prepared by CMU graduate
students.
How: See http://www.math.cmu.edu/~extr/ or email extr@math.cmu.edu
Who else: Add the spirit of Paul Erdos :-)
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5. *** 20th Cumberland Conference on Discrete Mathematics Atlanta, GA - May 17-19, 2007 ***
-----First Announcement - 20th Cumberland Conference on Discrete
Mathematics
Place:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
When:
May 17-19, 2007
Prinicple Speakers:
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo
Carla Savage, North Carolina State University
Contributed talks are also welcome.
For more information contact:
Ron Gould
Department of Math & CS
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
rg@mathcs.emory.edu
Or see our web page at
http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~rg/cumber07.html
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6. *** Carleton Discrete Mathematics Workshop - Ottawa, Canada May 25-26, 2007 ***
-----CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTED TALKS
OTTAWA - CARLETON DISCRETE MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP 2007
sponsored by the FIELDS INSTITUTE
to be held May 25 - 26, 2007
at the School of Mathematics and Statistics
CARLETON UNIVERSITY, OTTAWA
Please feel free to forward this message to your colleagues,
students, and others who might be interested.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Luc Devroye (School of Computer Science, McGill University,
Canada)
Hadi Kharaghani (Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences,
University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Bruce Richter (Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of Waterloo, Canada)
Catherine Yan (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
USA)
Wenan Zang (Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong
Kong)
IMPORTANT DATES
Contributed talk abstract submission deadline: April 25.
Deadline for students to apply for travel funding: April 25.
Early registration final date: May 18.
Event Date: May 25-26.
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PROGRAM
The Discrete Math Workshop will run for 2 days this year, Friday
(May 25) and Saturday (May 26), and will include five one-hour
invited talks by the above speakers as well as contributed talks.
Title and abstract for a contributed talk should be sent to:
Kevin (kcheung@math.carleton.ca) by April 25.
REGISTRATION
We strongly encourage early registration via the Fields Institute
web site
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/0607/discrete_math/
Registration fee is $20 for on-line registration and $25 for onsite registration. Students, postdocs, and invited speakers are
exempt. On-line registration will close on May 19.
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FUNDING
Students and postdocs are encouraged to apply for financial
support via the Fields Institute web site
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/0607/discrete_math/
Deadline for applications: April 25.
Campus residences are also available during the Discrete
Mathematics Workshop. Application forms can be found online.
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ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL
Please refer to
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/0607/discrete_math/
for a list of suggested accommodation including campus residences.
For more information, please e-mail any one of organizers.
We are looking forward to welcoming many of you in Ottawa!
Kevin Cheung
Jason Gao
Steven Wang
kcheung@math.carleton.ca
zgao@math.carleton.ca
wang@math.carleton.ca
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7. *** Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference
2007 - Banff, Alberta, Canada - May 28-31, 2007 ***
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Call for Submissions - CanaDAM 2007
Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference 2007
May 28-31, 2007
Banff Conference Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mreza/CANADAM/
See the link below for a PDF of this announcement:
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/rymartin/dm-net/docs/CANADAM2007.pdf
This is a new conference series on Discrete and Algorithmic
Mathematics to be held in Canada every two years (in the odd
years). The style of the conference will be similar to the SIAM
Conferences on Discrete Mathematics, which meet in all even
numbered years. The longterm organization is overseen by an
Executive Committee currently consisting of Jason Brown, Derek
Corneil (Chair), Pavol Hell, Ortrud Oellermann, Daniel Panario and
Bruce Reed.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Designs, Codes, and Cryptography
Discrete Optimization
Computational Biology
Combinatorial Geometry
Probabilistic Methods
Algorithms and Complexity
Program Committee:
Bill Cook (Georgia Tech)
Pavol Hell (Simon Fraser U.)
Joan Hutchinson (Macalester College)
Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser U.), Chair
Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley)
Pavel Pevzner (UC San Diego)
Nati Linial (Hebrew U.)
Doug Stinson (U. of Waterloo)
Eva Tardos (Cornell U.)
Godfried Toussaint (McGill U.)
Nick Wormald (U. of Waterloo)
Herb Wilf (U. of Pensylvania)
--------------------------------------PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Valerie King (University of Victoria)
Janos Pach (Courant Institute)
Bill Pulleyblank (IBM Research)
David Sankoff (University of Ottawa)
Bruce Shepherd (Bell Laboratories)
Vera Sos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth)
Xuding Zhu (National Sun Yat-sen University)
--------------------------------------There will be an Invited Minisymposium complementing the
talk of each plenary speaker. These are being arranged
now and will be announced on the webpage.
SUBMISSIONS:
We are inviting proposals for Contributed Minisymposia,
and abstracts of Contributed Talks. The information on how
to organize a Minisymposium or submit an Abstract is at:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mreza/CANADAM/participation.html
. Deadline for minisymposium proposals: January 19, 2007
. Acceptance notification for minisymposia: January 23, 2007
. Deadline for abstracts (minisymposium and contributed):
February 12, 2007
. Acceptance notification for contributed talks: February 19, 2007
Local Information:
The Local Arrangements Committee consists of Joe Culberson,
Ryan Hayward (Chair), Guohui Lin, Daniel Panario, Mohammad
Salavatipour, and Lorna Stewart.
CanaDAM 2007 will be at the Banff Conference Center
http://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences/
The number of rooms at the Conference Centre is limited. It
will be best to register and to book a room early, as they
will go on a first come first serve basis.
Funding:
Graduate Students and PDFs will have a subsidized registration
fee. There are also funds to support both travel and
accommodation for Graduate Students and PDFs attending the
conference. Priority for such support will be given to Students
and PDFs at Canadian Universities. Information on how to apply
will soon be posted on the conference webpage.
Sponsors:
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Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE)
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM)
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Please forward this message to other researchers in discrete
mathematics at your institution, or elsewhere.
Looking forward to seeing you in Banff!
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University of Delaware
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Iowa State University
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