Eurocomb 2013 - call for participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMBINATORICS,
GRAPH THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
EUROCOMB'13
http://www.eurocomb2013.it/
Pisa, September 9-13, 2013
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Advanced registration deadline: August 9th, 2013.
Conference: September 9th-13th, 2013.

SCOPE.

In the tradition of EuroComb'01 (Barcelona), Eurocomb'03 (Prague),
EuroComb'05 (Berlin), Eurocomb'07 (Seville),
Eurocomb'09 (Bordeaux), and Eurocomb'11 (Budapest), this conference will
cover the full range of Combinatorics
and Graph Theory including applications in other areas of Mathematics,
Computer Science and Engineering.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

Algebraic Combinatorics
Combinatorial Geometry
Combinatorial Number Theory
Combinatorial Optimization
Designs and Configurations
Enumerative Combinatorics
Extremal Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Ordered Sets
Random Methods
Topological Combinatorics

PLENARY LERCTURES:

Nine outstanding researchers in the field will give plenary lectures.

DISTINGUISHED INIVITED SPEAKER:

Endre Szemerédi
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and Rutgers University

Talk Title: Packing Trees into a Graph

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Michele Conforti
Universita' di Padova

Talk Title: Integer Programming, Lattices and Polyhedra

Michel Goemans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Talk Title: Polynomiality for Packing and Scheduling in the High
Multiplicity Setting

Alexander Kostochka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Talk Title: Lower bounds on the size of k-critical n-vertex
graphs and their applications

Daniel Marx
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Talk Title: Decomposition theorems for graphs excluding structures

Mathias Schacht
University of Hamburg

Talk Title: Extremal combinatorics in random structures

Asaf Shapira
Tel-Aviv University

Talk Title: Ramsey Theory, Integer Partitions and a New Proof of the
Erdos-Szekeres Theorem

Andrew Thomason
University of Cambridge

Talk Title: Containers for independent sets

Luca Trevisan
Stanford University

Talk Title: Spectral graph theory


LIST OF COMMUNICATIONS:

Full list of communications and the conference programme is available at
the conference web site http://www.eurocomb2013.it/
The Program committee has selected 95 Oral Communications and 9 Posters.

PROCEEDINGS

A proceedings book is edited in the prestigious CRM Series printed by Le
Edizioni della Normale
and distributed by Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/7832).


EUROPEAN PRIZE IN COMBINATORICS

Continuing with the tradition established at EuroComb'03 in Prague the
European Prize in Combinatorics
will be awarded during the conference EuroComb 2013. The prize is
established to recognize excellent
contributions in Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics and their
Applications by young European researchers
(eligibility of EU) not older than 35. The prize carries a monetary
award of 2500 Euro.


FEES:

Advanced: Registration fee deadline August 9th
(Academic: € 290 ,00 Student: € 170 ,00 Industry: € 400 ,00)

Late: After August 9th to September 6th
(Academic: € 370 ,00 Student: € 260 ,00 Industry: € 500 ,00)

From September 7th, registration will be possible on site only
(Academic: € 450 ,00 Student: € 320 ,00 Industry: € 600 ,00)

The registration fees entails the following benefits:
Welcome cocktail, Lunch buffet for 5 days, Coffee breaks for 5 days, one
copy of the proceedings volume.

Social dinner ticket is not included in the registration fees.
Each social dinner ticket is to be purchased at the cost of 60 Euro per
ticket.

Registration is through the conference web site http://www.eurocomb2013.it/

ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organized in Pisa by the Institute for Informatics and
Telematics of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR),with the
Scuola Normale Superiore - Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi,
the Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa,and the Center
for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Applications
(DIMATIA) of Charles University.

CONTACT:

The organizing committee can be contacted at eurocomb2013@iit.cnr.it.
For up to date information consult the conference web site:
http://www.eurocomb2013.it/


Looking forward to seeing you in Pisa.