Subject: Albany DM/CS Meeting 9/28

(Please accept our apologies if you receive this message
in duplicate or you have preregistered already)

Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science Day (DMCSD)
Final Announcement
University at Albany, Albany, NY

Saturday, September 28, 2002
Campus Center 2nd Floor Assembly Hall and Fireside Lounge

Speakers and Titles:
 10:00 Dan Willard (University at Albany, SUNY) 
   Generalizations and Some Exceptions for the 
   Second Incompleteness Theorem 
 10:45 Louis J. Billera (Cornell University)
   From Descents to Peaks: An Alpine View of
   Enumeration in Hyperplane Arrangements  
 2:00 Santosh Vempala (MIT)
   Random Walks and Geometric Algorithms  
 2:45 Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers University) 
   Enumeration Schemes 
 4:15 Laura Anderson (Binghamton University, SUNY)
   Recent Progress on Matroid Bundles 
 5:00 Gregory Warrington (UMASS, Amherst) 
   Towards pictures of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials 

The meeting will begin at 9:00 AM (first talk at 10:00 AM) and
continue through 5:30 PM. There will be two one-hour talks and four
one-half hour talks. Posters may be presented from 9:00 A.M through
5:00 P.M.  For more detailed information, refer to our web page
http://www.cs.albany.edu/~sdc/DMCSD

There is no registration fee but optional preregistration (via email 
to Seth Chaiken sdc@cs.albany.edu when you think you may want to come) 
is available.

Attention Students and Advisors: Additional funding to support out of
town student attendance is available.  Please preregister so we can 
keep you informed and estimate attendance.

Location:  Campus Center 2nd Floor: Assembly Hall and Fireside Lounge

Directions: From the West or from Thruway I-87 exit 24: 
 Take I-90 eastbound exit 2, 
 cross Washington Ave. straight onto the campus.  

From the East along I-90: Take Exit 2, left onto Fuller Road, 
 left after underpass onto Washington Ave, then right onto the campus.

After entering the campus from Washington Ave., turn left, 
 continue past the big circle, turn right for the Campus Center 
 Visitor's lot just past the end of the construction but 
 before the new Fine Arts and Sculpture building.

Local Organizers: 
  Seth Chaiken, Cristian Lenart, S.S. Ravi and Ganesh Ramesh 

Supported by the Dept. of Computer Science, Dept. of Mathematics, 
the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Vice-President for 
Research at the University at Albany, National Security Agency and 
NFS Career Grant DMS-0134860.

   As many of you know, the series of CoNE conferences came to an end
after 9 years.  What you may not know is that a new series of regional
meetings in combinatorics is in progress here in the North East, but
with a different format.  There will be 2 or 3 meetings a year on a
Saturday at different venues in the region.  The first meeting was at
University of Massachusetts in Amherst on October 12, 2001, the second
was at Dartmouth College on May 11, 2002 and now the third will be at
the University at Albany.  We hope to see you at this and future
meetings!

External funding to defray expenses of host institutions is available.
Please get in touch with any of us if you wish to host a future meeting
in the series.

Regional Committee: 
Mike Albertson of Smith College 
Seth Chaiken of University at Albany (SUNY) 
Karen Collins of Wesleyan University 
Rosa Orellana of Dartmouth College 
Frank Sottile at UMASS, Amherst 
Ann Trenk of Wellesley College 

Links and further information: http://www.cs.albany.edu/~sdc/DMCSD

Seth Chaiken
mailto:sdc@cs.albany.edu