CMSA E-Newsletter 18

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA (INC) E-Newsletter 18 (June 2005) INTRODUCTION:

Thank you to the members who have sent information for this newsletter. Please send news as soon as you have anything of possible interest to CMSA members and the Combinatorial Community, even if no newsletter is imminent! Please email the Newsletter Editor at:  p.manyem at ballarat.edu.au

CLOSING DATE for Issue 19:  September 30, 2005. (Please email items to me ONLY in plain text.)

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CONTENTS:

* AIMS of the newsletter

* FUTURE WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS (and ACiD -- Algorithms and Complexity in Durham, JULY 8-10, 2005.)
 * Mile High Conference On Quasigroups, Loops And Non-associative Systems  Denver, USA, JULY 2-9, 2005.
 * 20th British Combinatorial Conference  Durham, UK, JULY 10-15, 2005.
 * 7th French International Colloquium on Graph Theory  Hyeres, Var, France, SEPTEMBER 12-16, 2005.
 * 16th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA 2005)  University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, SEPTEMBER 18-21, 2005.
 * Special Session on Mathematics of Computer Science at the 49th Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting  University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, SEPTEMBER 26-30, 2005.
 * International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics Mathematics and Applications  Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA, DECEMBER 2-4, 2005.
 * 30th ACCMCC  University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, DECEMBER 5-9, 2005.
 * A few useful conference webpages.

* RECENT NEWS OF CMSA MEMBERS and others
 * Xiaohua "Teresa" Jin has been appointed to a visiting position at the University of Vermont, USA

AIMS of the newsletter:
 * to promote combinatorics within Australasia
 * to provide a forum for sharing combinatorial and related information
 * to keep CMSA members informed and in touch with combinatorial and related matters

FUTURE WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Mile High Conference On Quasigroups, Loops And Non-associative Systems, The University of Denver, Denver, USA Conference Dates:  July 2-9, 2005.

The conference focuses on recent results in nonassociative mathematics, in particular in quasigroups and loops. Contributions from related areas (nonassociative algebras, Latin squares, computational systems for nonassociative mathematics) are welcome. Based on the initial response, the conference promises to be the main event in nonassociative algebra for 2005.

DEADLINES: April 30 for registration with accommodation on campus May 31 for registration without accommodation on campus June 15 for submission of abstracts.

For more details, see the conference webpage at http://www.math.du.edu/milehigh.

BCC 2005, The University of Durham and Open University, UK      The 2005 BCC (British Combinatorial Conference) is organised jointly by The University of Durham and The Open University, and will be held at Durham, UK, from July 10 (Sunday) to July 15 (Friday), 2005. For more details, see the conference webpage at http://mcs.open.ac.uk/bcc2005/.

Another conference, Algorithms and Complexity at Durham (ACiD), is being co-hosted, during July 8-10 2005 at the University of Durham, England, UK. Conference webpage: http://www.dur.ac.uk/acid.2005

The Seventh International Colloquium on Graph Theory,  Hyeres, Var, France Conference Dates:  September 12-16, 2005.

ICGT is the international conference initiated by Claude Berge, which is organized each 4 or 5 years by the french community in Graph Theory. The last edition was held in Marseille in 2000. It covers the full range of Graph Theory including applications in other areas of Mathematics, Biology, Computer Science and Engineering.

For more details, see the conference webpage at http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/ICGT05/.

AWOCA 2005, The University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia The 16th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms will be held at the University of Ballarat during September 18-21, 2005. The workshop will honour Professor Bill Smyth on his 70th birthday.

Topics include:  Algorithms and Data Structures, Complexity Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Cryptography, Algorithms on Strings, Graph Algorithms, Graph Drawing, Computational Algebra and Geometry, Computational Biology, Communications Networks, Probabilistic and Randomized Algorithms, New Paradigms of Computation, and other topics in theoretical Computer Science.

Invited Speakers include Lynn Batten (Australia), Michael Bender (USA), Rod Downey (New Zealand), Alan Gibbons (UK), Nora Hartsfield (USA), Alex Rosa (Canada), and John Yearwood (Australia).

The workshop webpage: http://www.ballarat.edu.au/conferences/awoca2005

There will be a Special Issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms devoted to selected papers from AWOCA 2005.

All enquiries to: awoca2005 at ballarat.edu.au

Mirka Miller (Chairperson, Organising Committee)

Special Session on Mathematics of Computer Science at the Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, Perth, Australia A special session on Mathematics of Computer Science will be organised at the 49th Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, to be held at the University of Western Australia at Perth, Australia, during September 26-30, 2005.

The Keynote Speaker for this session will be Bruce Litow of James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

Please see these webpages for more information:

http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05/html/s_sessions.html http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05/index.html

Andrei Kelarev, University of Tasmania (andrei.kelarev@utas.edu.au) Prabhu Manyem, University of Ballarat (p.manyem@ballarat.edu.au) Special Session organisers

International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics Mathematics and Applications  Auburn University, USA The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA, and the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM) are proud to co-organise a three-day International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics Mathematics and Applications, to be held during December 2-4, 2005 at Auburn University.

Invited Speakers in the Combinatorics area are: Charlie Colbourn Jean Doyen

Unlike previous Combinatorics conferences at Auburn, we do invite participants to give talks - the deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2005. The conference is using the Atlas Conference Inc service to process the submitted abstracts. Please submit your abstracts at http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/caqt-01

You can view accepted abstracts at http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caqt-01

There is a registration fee: early registration (prior to November 15) costs $150.

For further information, please see: http://www.stat.auburn.edu/scma2005/

Chris Rodgers, Alabama University

ACCMCC 2005, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia The 30th ACCMCC (Australasian Conference in Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing) will be held at the University of Queensland during December 5-9, 2005.

Invited Speakers at this stage include:

Simon Blackburn, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK     Matthew Brown, The University of Adelaide, Australia Mike Grannell, The Open University, UK     Nick Hamilton, The University of Queensland, Australia Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University, USA Curt Lindner, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA Brendan McKay, The Australian National University Charles Semple, University of Canterbury, NZ     Wal Wallis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

Details at the website http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/cdmc/30accmcc.html are being updated regularly, so please check there often!

Elizabeth Billington

A few useful conference webpages and a few upcoming conferences:

DMANET (Discrete Maths Net) has lots of conferences listed.

http://www.combinatorics.org/Conferences/

http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/conferences.html

http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/conferences.html#main

Upcoming conferences in Coding, Cryptography and Effective Algebra: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/Anne.Canteaut/annonces.html.

EUROCONFERENCES IN MATHEMATICS ON CRETE: ALGEBRAIC AND GEOMETRIC COMBINATORICS, August 20-26, 2005. http://www.math.uoc.gr/~caa/anogia05.html.

COCOON 2005 (Computing and Combinatorics), August 16-19, 2005 in Hong Kong. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~lwang/COCOON2005/.

GRACO 2005: 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Graphs, Algorithms and Combinatorics, April 27-29, 2005. http://www.ime.usp.br/graco2005/.

The EUROPEAN GRADUATE PROGRAM "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" will offer a Spring School on Enumerative Combinatorics during June 1-4, 2005, in Netzeband, a little town one hour northwest of Berlin. For more information, contact: Prof. Martin Aigner (aigner at math.fu-berlin.de), or Andrea Hoffkamp (hoffkamp at inf.fu-berlin.de), or http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/gk-cgc.

RECENT NEWS OF CMSA MEMBERS and others

Xiaohua "Teresa" Jin has been appointed to a visiting position at the University of Vermont, USA.

(News from Dan Archdeacon, University of Vermont, USA)

The AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS

The web page for the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics is at http://ajc.math.auckland.ac.nz/.

The Journal is now published three times per year, in February, June and October. CMSA Members are entitled to a $10 discount per volume.

There is a search facility for past authors and for keywords in the titles of papers. Instructions to authors are also available at this web site.

The contents of all volumes, 1 to 32, are listed at the above web page. We also now have free public access to the full papers in Volumes 1 to 23 inclusive. All but the last four years are available free.

Submissions to the Australas. J. Combin. may be sent to ajc at maths.uq.edu.au. Electronic submissions are encouraged. For paper submissions, please check the web page.

The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics is published by the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia Inc.

REMINDER: Deadline for the next issue of this Newsletter:  September 30, 2005. Please email items to me ONLY in plain text format.

Prabhu Manyem, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat, Victoria 3350, Australia. Phone:  +61 3 5327 9814. Fax:  +61 3 5327 9289. Email: p.manyem at ballarat.edu.au