Apologies for multiple postings. ************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMBINATORICS, GRAPH THEORY AND APPLICATIONS EUROCOMB’13 http://www.eurocomb2013.it/ Pisa, September 9-13, 2013 ************************************************************ 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.