Call for application for pre-doc course in Optimization Methods in Discrete Geometry

PreDoc-Course Berlin, April - June 2006 Optimization Methods in Discrete Geometry organized by Günter M. Ziegler and Thorsten Theobald

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PreDoc-Course Berlin, April - June 2006
Optimization Methods in Discrete Geometry
(organized by Günter M. Ziegler and Thorsten Theobald)
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+ reminder: DocCourse Prague, January - March 2006
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****************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS *******************

PhD students and students preparing to enter a PhD program
in Discrete Mathematics or in Computer Science (in a broad sense)
are invited to participate in a three months study program.
The PreDoc-Course is offered by the International
Graduate Programs "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" and
"Methods for Discrete Structures" (funding pending) of the Free
University, the Humboldt University and the Technical University
in Berlin, in cooperation with Charles University Prague.

It includes four minicourses with exercise sessions and projects:
Bernd Gärtner: Linear Programming Methods
Komei Fukuda: Polyhedral Computation
Thorsten Theobald: Semidefinite Programming Methods
Ileana Streinu: Rigidity
and it is connected to various other events in discrete
mathematics during that time in Berlin
(including the Symposium on Discrete Mathematics on April 3-4,
see http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler/dm2006.html ).

The Predoc-Course is free of charge. Moreover, there is a
limited number of stipends of approximately 1000 EUR per month
available.

For more information see

http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler/doccourse06.html

Application deadlines:
for stipends: January 15, 2006
for participation in the PreDoc-Course: March 15, 2006

For senior researchers: If you know bright students who might be
interested, please encourage them to apply!

The Predoc-Course Berlin is organized in coordination with the
DocCourse 2006 "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" in Prague
(January-March 2006). For information on that programme
see http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/doccourse06.html
Application deadline: October 20, 2005.