From odsa@neptun.math.uni-rostock.de Sat Jan 1 19:50:27 2000 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:58:48 +0100 (MET) From: ODSA To: odsamail@neptun.math.uni-rostock.de Subject: ODSA 2000 - 1.Announcement First Announcement OPTIMAL DISCRETE STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS - ODSA 2000 September 11-13, 2000, Rostock, Germany The conference will be held at the University of Rostock, the oldest university in Northern Europe; founded in 1419. The old Hanse-Town Rostock is located about 200 km north of Berlin at the Baltic coast. This conference is the successor of ODSA '97, and thus the second meeting in our ODSA-series. Emphasis is put on the interactions between several aspects of Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical Optimization, and Theoretical Computer Science. TOPICS: Combinatorial optimization and algorithms on discrete structures, Extremal problems in posets, Design theory, Coding theory, Cryptography, Graph theory, Complexity theory, and related topics. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: A. Brandst\"adt (Dept. of Computer Science), K. Engel, H.-D. Gronau, R. Labahn (Dept. of Mathematics). PROGRAM: The program will include invited plenary lectures (55 min) and contributed talks (25 min) in parallel sections. INVITED SPEAKERS: C.J. Colbourn (Burlington) P. Frankl (Tokyo) J.R. Griggs (Columbia) C.T. Hoang (Thunder Bay) D. Kreher (Houghton) A. Pott (Magdeburg) J.P. Spinrad (Nashville) I. Wegener (Dortmund) G. Ziegler (Berlin) PROCEEDINGS: There will be a special issue of DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS with papers related to the conference and refereed according to the usual procedures. INFORMATION: For further information see our WWW-page http://www.math.uni-rostock.de/odsa or contact Prof. K. Engel, Dr. R. Labahn, ODSA 2000 Universit\"at, FB Mathematik, 18051 Rostock, Germany e-mail: odsa@mathematik.uni-rostock.de PREREGISTRATION: If you wish to receive further information, please preregister as soon as possible by sending a brief e-mail to odsa@mathematik.uni-rostock.de A second announcement will be sent out in March 2000.