[Compgeom-announce] Geometric and Topological Combintorics, August 2006

[Francisco Santos <santosf@unican.es>]

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        Workshop on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
  - A satellite conference of  ICM 2006 (http://www.icm2006.org/) -
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DATES: August 31 to September 5, 2006

INVITED SPEAKERS
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
Stefan Felsner, Technische Universität Berlin
Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
Neil Sloane, AT&T Research
Ileana Streinu, Smith College

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URL:            http://www2.uah.es/gtc06/
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PLACE: Universidad de Alcala (UAH), Alcala de Henares
       The university of Alcala is one of the oldest in Europe. The
       workshop will take place in its historic "Rectorado" building.
       The town of Alcala de Henares itself is a charming town very
       close to central Madrid, and declared World Heritage by UNESCO.

Scientific committee:
       Christos Athanasiadis (Crete)
       Imre Bárány (Budapest)
       Anders Björner (Stockholm)
       Jesús A. de Loera (Davis)
       Günter Rote (Berlin)
       Francisco Santos (Santander)
       Emo Welzl (Zürich)

Organizing committee:
       Manuel Abellanas (Madrid)
       David Orden (Alcalá)
       Julian Pfeifle (Barcelona)
       Pedro Ramos (Alcalá)
       Francisco Santos (Santander)

TOPICS: Geometric and/or topological combinatorics concerns discrete 
structures that arise in a wide array of mathematical contexts, ranging 
from enumerative questions about polytopes and other constructions from 
linear algebra to the topology of manifolds and algebraic varieties. 
This workshop is intended as an informal discussion forum for people 
from such fields as combinatorics, discrete geometry, algebraic 
geometry, convex geometry, algebraic topology, combinatorial 
optimization and theoretical computer science, among others.

STRUCTURE: The Workshop will be intertwined with the advanced course 
"Combinatorial and Computational Geometry: Trends and topics for the 
future" (http://www.crm.es/ComputationalGeometry), which will take 
place in the same dates and place. The scientific programs of both 
activities are independent, but the timetables will be coordinated to 
allow attendance to both. The workshop will consist of five 
"half-days", with Sunday September 3 left free for participants to 
entertain themselves.

The workshop is organized with the support of
       Universidad de Cantabria,
       Universidad de Alcalá,
       Centre de Recerca Matematica, and
       Spanish Ministry of Science and Education.

For more information, go to http://www2.uah.es/gtc06/ or contact the 
organizers at francisco.santos@unican.es

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Francisco Santos,   santosf@unican.es
Departamento de Matematicas, Estadistica y Computacion
Universidad de Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, SPAIN.
Phone: +34-942-201522   -   Fax: +34-942-201402
http://personales.unican.es/santosf






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