First Announcement OPTIMAL DISCRETE STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS (ODSA 2010) September 13-15, 2010, Rostock, Germany http://www.math.uni-rostock.de/odsa/ The ODSA 2010 conference, to be held at the University of Rostock, continues the ODSA series following previous conferences in 1997, 2000 and 2006. 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. AIMS AND SCOPE 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. ORGANIZERS A. Brandstädt and V.B. Le (Dept. of Computer Science), K. Engel, H.-D. Gronau, R. Labahn and F. Pfender (Dept. of Mathematics). INVITED SPEAKERS Bela Bollobas (Cambridge, Memphis) Michal Karonski (Poznan) Kurt Mehlhorn (Saarbrücken) Walter Wallis (Carbondale) Peter Widmayer (Zürich) Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We invite submission of short abstracts of 25-minute talks to be presented at the conference in parallel sections. The deadline for submission is July 15th, 2010. See http://www.math.uni-rostock.de/odsa/ for submission details. 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, 2000 and 2006 appeared as DAM Volume 95, No. 1-3, Volume 138, No. 1-2, and Volume 157, No. 9. PREREGISTRATION To make sure you receive further information, please preregister by email to odsa@uni-rostock.de We will confirm preregistration by an email response within a week. If you do not receive any answer, your message might have been lost in spam - then please repeat it. REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE FEE The deadline for registration is July 15th, 2010. The conference fee of Euro 50 (students: Euro 35) includes refreshments, social events and a conference dinner. Please see http://www.math.uni-rostock.de/odsa/ for more details.