================================================================= SIAM Activity group on Discrete Mathematics DM-Net ----------------------------------------------------------------- March 7, 2008 (Number 2008.01) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Email contributions to: Address changes to: Archive URL: ================================================================= ================================================================= CONTENTS: 1. Editor's Note 2. 4th annual Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC), April 12-13, Davis, CA 3. 21st Cumberland Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing, May 15-17, Nashville, TN 4. SIAM DM08 -- Burlington, VT, June 16-19, 2008 5. Adam Marcus wins Konig Prize ================================================================= 1. *** Editor's Note *** ------ Congratulations and welcome to the new SIAG board, names and affiliations listed at the end of this page. The URL for the newsletter archive is http://orion.math.iastate.edu/rymartin/dm-net.html -- Ryan ================================================================= 2. *** 4th annual Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC), April 12-13, Davis, CA *** ------ We would like to invite graduate students to attend the 4th annual Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC) on April 12-13, 2008 at the University of California, Davis. This conference is for graduate students and their research in combinatorics and related fields. Any graduate student is eligible to give a 20-minute talk on their research or on any topic they find interesting. The conference will also include social gatherings as a chance for graduate students from around North America to get to know others in their field. In addition to the graduate student talks, the conference will feature two keynote speakers this year: Ron Graham, of UC San Diego, and Arun Ram, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All students are encouraged to speak in the friendly environment of GSCC; however, it is not necessary that you give a talk in order to attend. Support is available for travel to the conference, and we encourage students to not let lack of funding be a barrier to their attendance. More information and a registration form can be found at the conference website: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~gscc2008 Also on the website is the conference poster which we encourage you to print out and display in your department; or, we can mail copies of the poster upon request. If you have any further questions, emails are welcome at: gscc2008@math.ucdavis.edu. We look forward to seeing you at the conference! GSCC 2008 Organizing Committee Chris Berg Sonya Berg Edward Kim Steven Pon ================================================================= 3. *** Call 21st Cumberland Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing, May 15-17, Nashville, TN *** ------ Dedicated to Mike Plummer on the occasion of his 70th birthday Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. May 15-17, 2008 PLENARY SPEAKERS * Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College, U.S.A. * Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Neil Robertson, Ohio State University, U.S.A. * Akira Saito, Nihon University, Japan * Bjarne Toft, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark FOCUS The conference will be dedicated in honor of Mike Plummer on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Therefore, we are trying to focus on areas in which Mike has worked, including topological graph theory, colorings, and matchings. There will be special sessions on Hadwiger's conjecture and on matchings, factors and factorizations. However, talks from any area related to graph theory, combinatorics and computing are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES April 4, 2008 Deadline for submitting support request. April 18, 2008 Deadline for online registration and abstracts. May 15-17, 2008 Conference. FURTHER INFORMATION Web site: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~math21cc/ Email: math21cc@vanderbilt.edu ORGANIZERS Mark Ellingham and Gexin Yu, Vanderbilt University -------------------------------------------------------------- We gratefully acknowledge support from Vanderbilt University, the Shanks Endowment, and the National Science Foundation. IMPORTANT DATES April 4, 2008 Deadline for submitting support request. April 18, 2008 Deadline for online registration and abstracts. May 15-17, 2008 Conference. FURTHER INFORMATION Web site: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~math21cc/ Email: math21cc@vanderbilt.edu ORGANIZERS Mark Ellingham and Gexin Yu, Vanderbilt University ================================================================= 4. *** SIAM DM08 -- Burlington, VT, June 16-19, 2008 *** ------ The SIAM conference in Discrete Mathematics will take place at the University of Vermont in Burlington, June 16-19, 2008. Registration and hotel reservation deadlines are both May 19, 2008. http://www.siam.org/meetings/dm08/ ================================================================= 5. *** Adam Marcus wins Konig Prize *** ------ The first award of the The Denes Konig Prize in Discrete Mathematics will be presented to Adam Marcus of Georgia Institute of Technology at the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. 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