[compgeom-announce] Doc-course on Geometric Graphs and Orders, May 25 - July 23, 2009, Berlin

[Guenter Rote <rote@inf.fu-berlin.de>]

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              Doc-Course on
       *Geometric Graphs and Orders*

           May 25 - July 23, 2009
                  Berlin
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LECTURERS:

Pavel Valtr (Charles University, Prague)
   *Combinatorics of Point Configurations*
   May 25 - Jun 12
Tom Trotter (Georgia Tech, Atlanta)
   *Combinatorics of partially ordered sets*
   June 15 - July 3
Olivier Bernardi (Paris-Sud):
   *Enumeration and planar maps*
   July 6-23

AUDIENCE:

The (Pre-)Doc-Course is organized as part of the
Berlin Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
"Methods for Discrete Structures".
<http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/mds/>
It is addressed to graduate students and postdocs in
mathematics or computer science who are interested in
geometry, combinatorics and related fields. Students
preparing to enter a PhD program in Discrete Mathematics
or in Computer Science are also welcome.

FORMAT:

There will be three mini-courses of 3 weeks duration.
Each weak, there will be two days of lectures.
In addition, exercises will be solved in
small teams, with solution sessions.
The instruction language is English.
The course will take place at
  * Technische Universität Berlin and
  * Freie Universität Berlin

PARTICIPATION/STIPEND:

Applications for the course, with a short curriculum vitae and
scientific background, should be sent by March 31, 2009, to

     Elke Pose, <mailto:pose@math.fu-berlin.de>

We can support a limited number of participants with an
amout of up to 1500 EUR. Applications for stipends, with
curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, diploma or master
thesis, areas of interest, and a letter of recommendation
should be sent by March 15, 2009, preferably by e-mail, to

     Elke Pose, <mailto:pose@math.fu-berlin.de>
     RTG "Methods for Discrete Structures"
     Inst. Mathematics, MA 6-2
     TU Berlin
     D-10623 Berlin, Germany

Applicants will be notified by March 20.
If there are still places available, the deadline can
be extended.

CONTACT/ORGANIZERS:

Stefan Felsner, felsner@math.TU-Berlin.DE and
Günter Rote, rote@inf.FU-berlin.de

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