INTRODUCTION:
Many thanks to the members who have sent information for this newsletter.
CLOSING DATE for Issue 7: 30 September 2001. Email ejb@maths.uq.edu.au with all your news and information.
CMSA WEB PAGE: http://www.math.fsc.qut.edu.au/cmsa/
NEWSLETTER WEB VERSIONS: http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~ejb/cmsa-newsletter6.html
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CONTENTS:
Starting with the 26th ACCMCC this July in Perth (see details below about this conference), there will be a Prize of $300 (Australian) awarded for the best student talk at the conference.
The aims of the prize are
For more details please contact the President of the CMSA, Professor Derek Holton, at dholton@maths.otago.ac.nz.
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A WORKSHOP on COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS AND APPLICATIONS will be held in the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Queensland, from JUNE 12-13, 2001.
The workshop will address both research and teaching issues,
with particular emphasis on new applications of discrete mathematics,
and emerging methods for teaching discrete mathematics in an effective manner.
Invited Speakers include:
More details are available from Peter Adams, email pa@maths.uq.edu.au or Darry Bryant, email db@maths.uq.edu.au.
The conference will be held at Ntshondwe Camp, Ithala Game Reserve, situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and hosted by the University of Natal. The main goal of the conference is to explore the most recent research in graph theory. The Principal Talks will be scheduled for 25 minutes and contributed talks for 15 minutes.
Special functions during the week includes a night drive in open safari vehicles, breakfast at the Bird Hide, sundowners overlooking the beautiful Phongola River, a night bush braai (alias ''barbeque'') and a Zulu dancing exhibition.
The Principal Speakers are:
James Hirschfeld
Richard Lewis
(Organisers)
Registration closed on 28 April 2001.
Abstracts of the key lectures, registration forms and further information
are available at
http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/current/graph/index.html
For other events (including the 18th British Combinatorial Conference in
the previous week and a Durham Symposium on Groups, Geometry and
Combinatorics in the following week) see
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/conf2001.html
From Peter Rowlinson p.rowlinson@maths.stir.ac.uk
Registration includes : the pre-conference reception to be held on the evening of Sunday 8th July; the full day excursion which will be a bus trip through Perth, Fremantle and the Swan Valley (includes lunch and wine tasting) on Wednesday 11th July; and the conference dinner to be held on Thursday 12th July.
Professor Louis Caccetta
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
School of Applied Science
Curtin University of Technology
email :
caccetta@cs.curtin.edu.au
phone : (08) 9266 7672
fax : (08) 9266 7672
The Second Lethbridge Workshop on
DESIGNS, CODES, CRYPTOGRAPHY and GRAPH THEORY
will be held
9 - 14 JULY, 2001
at University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta.
The workshop builds on the success of the Workshop on Coding Theory,
Cryptography and Computer Security held at the University of Lethbridge,
August 3 - 7, 1998. Sponsors are the Pacific Institute for the
Mathematical Sciences, MITACs, the University of Lethbridge and
VeriSign Inc.
The workshop web site is http://www.cs.uleth.ca/dccg .
Abstracts of papers and first registration due by 15 June 2001.
INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
SUPPORT:
There is some financial support available for graduate students and
postdocs. Those working in any area of combinatorics are encouraged to
apply as soon as possible to be considered for financial support.
Further information about the workshop including accommodation information is available at the web site http://www.cs.uleth.ca/dccg .
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Wolf Holzmann, University of Lethbridge
Hadi Kharaghani, University of Lethbridge
Jim Liu, University of Lethbridge
If you have questions or wish to be put on our mailing list, please send
e-mail to Hadi Kharaghani at
hadi@cs.uleth.ca or write to:
DCCG Workshop,
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Lethbridge,
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
CANADA
FAX: (403) 329-2519
email: hadi@cs.uleth.ca
Dept. Phone: (403) 329-2470
The workshop will take place Friday, JULY 13 to Friday, JULY 27 2001 on the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Invited Speakers are (all confirmed):
The aim of the Workshop is to gather people interested in discussing recent advances and open problems in the following areas of graph theory and combinatorial designs: Cycles, Colorings, and Extremal problems.
More information, including the Registration Form, Scientific Program, Social Events, Accommodations, and Abstracts of the Invited Talks may be found at our Website http://www.math.hawaii.edu/bertram. If you intend to take part in the 2001 Workshop it is necessary to fill in and mail, Fax, or e-mail the Registration Form below even if you have submitted a Preregistration form, which we used for planning purposes.
The Registration Fee is US$70 ($50 for students) if paid by June 13, 2001 and is US$80 ($60 for students) thereafter.
See http://www.jim.info.gifu-u.ac.jp/~miwako/RIMS/01/index.html.
Organisers are:
Miwako Mishima and Ying Miao.
Miwako Mishima
Department of Information Science
Gifu University
1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193
Japan
Tel & Fax: +81-58-293-2761
E-mail:
miwako@info.gifu-u.ac.jp
Ying Miao
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences
University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8573
Japan
Tel & Fax: +81-298-53-5009
E-mail:
miao@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp.
Contact Ian Roberts at
iroberts@darwin.ntu.edu.au
or Lynn Batten at
lmbatten@deakin.edu.au
for details on the special session.
More information about the meeting is available on the
Australian Mathematical Society website; see
http://www.austms.org.au/People/Conf/AustMS45/ or else
http://room.anu.edu.au/conferences/AustMS2001/ .
Some financial support is available for students presenting a paper
who are members of the Australian Mathematical Society.
Invited Speakers:
Contact: Kathy Horadam horadam@rmit.edu.au, Serdar Boztas serdar@rmit.edu.au or Asha Baliga asha@rmit.edu.au.
See the conference website
http://www.ma.rmit.edu.au/aaecc/index.html
Registration/accommodation details will soon be posted on the web.
We are still looking for speakers, so please let me know if you plan to have international visitors at that time
Ljiljana Brankovic
lbrankov@cs.newcastle.edu.au.
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A very useful website giving upcoming conferences in Coding,
Cryptography and Effective Algebra AND their deadlines is
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/Anne.Canteaut/annonces.html .
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Peter Adams and Darryn Bryant, at The University of Queensland, have been awarded funding for a high-performance combinatorial computing cluster. The new system comprises 128 computers from Sun Microsystems, and builds upon an existing 66 CPU cluster. The computers will be used primarily to run large combinatorial searches for projects on DNA sequence assembly and virtual screening in drug design. They will also be used on a variety of graph decomposition problems.
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The old MATH ANNEX at Auburn University
Those of you who have visited the Department of Discrete and Statistical
Sciences at Auburn University, which until recently was housed in a
building called the Math Annex, very close to the football stadium on
campus, may be interested in looking at some final photographs...
http://www.dms.auburn.edu/faculty/lindnerpics.html
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OVERSEAS VISITORS
(Please send in details of future visitors and dates in time for contacts to be made with the visitors.)
The University of Newcastle has two visitors:
The University of Queensland has the following visitors:
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MEMBERS' (OR STUDENTS OF MEMBERS) RECENT RESEARCH DEGREES :
Congratulations to
Mirka Miller's student
at the University of Newvastle, on obtaining his PhD:
DR MARTIN SUTTON,
thesis title
"Summable Graph Labellings and Their Applications".
Martin has also just been promoted to Senior Lecturer in the
School of Management at the University of Newcastle.
Congratulations, Martin!
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Jason C. Rouvel is the Project Administrator for the Mathematics Genealogy Project. He has asked for help, via Jennie Seberry, to update Australian information; he says:
I'm hoping, Professor Seberry, that you might help us with our project. We have very few records from Australia, and you have a rather impressive list of students. We would very much appreciate any additional records from any of the universities in Australia. Complete records can be sent as an attached Excel file, or one-by-one on the data submission form on our web page.
See the web page http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu/.
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PREPRINTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS:
[Note from Ed: In CMSA E-News3 it was decided to shelve this
section, as no one was sending in details.
So there was no such section
in CMSA E-News4. It was resurrected in CMSA E-News5, but no details
have been received for this issue, so it is once again closed!]
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The AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS :
There is now a web page for the Australasian Journal of
Combinatorics, and it has a search facility for past authors and
for keywords in paper titles. See
http://ajc.math.auckland.ac.nz/ .
Instructions to authors are also available from this web site.
Submissions to the AJC may be sent to either of the addresses below. Paul Bonnington will mainly deal with papers in graph theory, and Elizabeth Billington will deal with all other areas of combinatorics. However, a paper may be submitted to either address below, or indeed (as in the past) to any member of the Editorial Board, or emailed to ajc@maths.uq.edu.au . Electronic submissions are encouraged.
Dr E.J. Billington,
Editor-in-Chief,
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Queensland,
Qld 4072
Australia
Dr C.P. Bonnington,
Managing Editor,
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Auckland,
Private Bag 92019,
Auckland,
New Zealand.
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REMINDER:
Deadline for next issue 30 September, 2001.
Elizabeth Billington, Dept Maths, University of Queensland, Qld 4072.
Fax: +61 7 3365 1477
ejb@maths.uq.edu.au
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