Second announcement: January 17, 2005.
THE 54th
SÉMINAIRE LOTHARINGIEN DE COMBINATOIRE
(Lyon, Erlangen, Marne-la-Vallée)
will take place at the
Centre Européen de Rencontres
Maison St-Bernard
F-68480
Lucelle
France
Tel.: +33 (0)3 89 08 13 13, Fax.: +33 03 89 08 10 83
from Sunday, April 3, 2005 (evening) to Wednesday April
6, 2005 (afternoon).
Participants are expected to arrive for the dinner on Sunday and leave
after lunch on Wednesday.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
This session will be devoted to the celebration of Xavier Viennot's
60th birthday. The main speakers will be:
George Andrews (Penn State University)
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Gérard Duchamp (Université Paris 13)
Serge Dulucq (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Philippe Flajolet (INRIA, Rocquencourt)
Dominique Foata (Institut Lothaire, Strasbourg)
Ira Gessel (Brandeis University)
Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne)
Alain Lascoux (Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
Pierre Leroux (UQAM, Montréal)
Renzo Pinzani (Università di Firenze)
Gilles Schaeffer (LIX, Paris)
Dennis Stanton (University of Minnesota)
Jean Vannimenus (ENS, Paris)
Xavier Viennot (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Herb Wilf (University of Pennsylvania)
but there will be also time for a (very) limited number of contributed
talks. Everybody is invited to submit a talk.
SPECIAL VOLUME OF THE SLC
On the occasion of this jubilee, we shall edit a special issue of
the Séminaire
Lotharingien de Combinatoire.
The deadline for submission will be June 30, 2005. The papers will
be read by two experts before publication.
Everybody is invited to submit a paper.
EUROPEAN NETWORK
The Seminar will shelter the activities of the European Network on
"Algebraic Combinatorics", consisting of the teams from the Universities
of Bordeaux, Jerusalem, Lyon, Linköping, Marburg,
Marne-la-Vallée, Roma,
Stockholm and Wien. It is expected that members of the
network will report on their latest research activities.
ACCOMMODATION
Participants will be housed in the Maison Saint-Bernard in double
rooms or in single rooms. The rates will be roughly
60 Euros (board and lodging) per person (per day). It will be a bit more
on a single occupancy basis, a bit less on a double occupancy basis.
HOW TO GET THERE?
The Maison Saint-Bernard
is reachable
- by car: via the highway A35/36,
- by train and bus: train up to Basel and Delemont, then bus from
Delemont to Lucelle,
- by plane: fly to the Basel-Mulhouse airport, take the shuttle
to the Basel train-station, and follow the instructions above.
We may also organize a (private) bus transportation from Mulhouse
or Basel to Lucelle.
More precise information will be given once it is available.
REGISTRATION
Make your registration AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
There is only limited amount of space at Saint-Bernard.
If it does not suffice, we would be forced to make special arrangements,
but we have to know in advance.
You can use one of the following ways to register :
QUESTIONS
For questions get in touch with
Christian
Krattenthaler (email: kratt at euler dot univ dash lyon1 dot fr).