OPTIMAL DISCRETE STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS ODSA 2006 Rostock (Germany), September 04 - 06, 2006

The ODSA 2006 conference, to be held at the University of Rostock, continues the ODSA series following previous conferences in 1997 and 2000. The University of Rostock was founded in 1419 and is the oldest university in Northern Europe. The old Hanse-town Rostock is located about 200 km north of Berlin at the Baltic coast.

The conference aims at the interactions between several aspects of Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical Optimization, Theoretical Computer Science, and their applications. In particular, the scope of the conference includes combinatorial optimization and algorithms on discrete structures, extremal problems in posets, design theory, coding theory, and graph theory.

Invited Speakers

Charles J. Colbourn (Tempe)	Martin Golumbic (Haifa)
Georg Gottlob (Oxford)	Horst W. Hamacher (Kaiserslautern)
Gyula O.H. Katona (Budapest)	Majid Sarrafzadeh (Illinois)

Registration and Conference Fee

To register for the conference please complete our registration form. The deadline for registration is July 31, 2006. The conference fee of Euro 50 (students: Euro 35) includes refreshments, social events and a conference dinner. The conference fee has to be paid upon arrival at the conference office.

CONFERENCE OFFICE ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:
The conference office will be located in the restaurant "Olympia", Freiligrathstrasse 4. From the main railway station ("Hauptbahnhof"), you can reach the restaurant by leaving through the main exit towards the center. Turn right and cross the street "Herweghstrasse". After only a few steps you are at the beginning of the street "Freiligrathstrasse". About 100 meters down the street you will find the restaurant "Olympia" on the left. The conference office will be opened from 16.00h to 21.00h. There you will receive the conference materials. This restaurant is also intended to meet other conference participants, and gives a good opportunity for your private dinner.

CONFERENCE OFFICE FROM MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY:
On these days, the office will be located in Ulmenstrasse 69, Room 225, open from shortly before until shortly after the sessions.

Program

The conference will start on Monday morning and end on Wednesday afternoon. There will be registration on the evening before the conference (Sunday, Sept. 3).
In the morning sessions we will have the talks of the invited speakers, while the afternoons are for the contributed talks in parallel sections. The schedule is now available. (last update of online version: 24/08/2006)

On Tuesday evening, there will be a reception on a river-boat. Click here for more information on our boat excursion. For companions, and those who intend to stay longer in Rostock or its beautiful neighborhood, click here.

Contributed Talks

Submission of abstracts is closed now. The program booklet containing schedule and abstracts is now in press and all abstracts are sent to Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematic as announced. You will receive a copyright transfer form (referring to an article with the title of your abstract) from Elsevier which needs to be returned. We quote from the publisher the following statement:
"the publication of an abstract or extended abstract in this journal will NOT restrict the author(s) from publishing a full-length article on the same topic and with the same title in another journal (possibly with another publisher) provided that the original publication is sufficiently enhanced (i.e. approximately doubled in size)."
Abstracts are now available from Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathmatics 27 (2006) .

Accommodation

Rooms for participants of ODSA 2006 have been reserved by the conference organizers in two hotels: Intercity Hotel Rostock and Ibis Hotel Rostock. See here for more details. As a general remark, we like to mention that Rostock is a major tourist destination. Therefore, we recommend early booking If you need further assistence, please, contact Tilo Klembt at odsa@uni-rostock.de with subject "accommodation".

How to get to Rostock

Rostock can be reached from Berlin, Hamburg or Frankfurt (airports TXL, HAM or FRA) by frequent trains departing usually in a two-hour-tact from Berlin, Hauptbahnhof, or Hamburg, Hauptbahnhof, or Frankfurt, Flughafen, respectively. See the online timetable in English or German.

The locations of our conference are marked on a map of Rostock which can be reached here. If you click on the map24 button and then on the details button for one of the locations you will find a link to a route finder tool which might be helpful if you arrive by car.

Conference Proceedings

There will be a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics (DAM) with contributions to the conference. Submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual procedures. Proceedings of ODSA 1997 and ODSA 2000 appeared as DAM Volume 95, No. 1-3 and Volume 138, No. 1-2.

The deadline for submission will be October 15, 2006. Submissions during the conference are very welcome.

Organizing Committee

A. Brandstädt	K. Engel	H.-D. Gronau	V.B. Le
M. Grüttmüller	T. Kalinowski	T. Klembt	R. Labahn
E. de Ridder	A. Straßburg	R. Fengler	K. Erdmann
S. Schweder

Information on ODSA 2006

The conference will be sponsored by

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

Last update: 15. September 2006