Fall School on Algorithms for Hard Problems
September 23-27, 2002
Bildungszentrum Matt
Schwarzenberg,
Switzerland
The themes of the school are algorithmic techniques for dealing
with hard optimization problems arising in practice. The focus is
on algorithms with provable performance guarantees. In particular,
the school will cover recent advances in the design and analysis
of approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms, and fixed-parameter
tractable algorithms in application domains such as machine scheduling,
facility location and computational biology.
Confirmed lecturers are:
- Susanne Albers (Universität Freiburg)
- Rolf Niedermeier (Universität Tübingen)
- Peter Rossmanith (Technische Universität München)
- David Shmoys (Cornell University)
- Angelika Steger (Technische Universität München)
- Gerhard Woeginger (University of Twente)
The intended audience of the school are final-year master students as
well as doctoral students in fields related to the themes of the school.
Participants should have a basic knowledge of algorithms and should be
interested in learning about the state of the art in this area. The
school will also be a good opportunity to get to know other people
working in the field and to establish contacts that may lead to
research collaborations in the future.
ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION
The school is organized within the European graduate program
"Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation"
(http://www.cgc.ethz.ch/),
which brings together ETH Zurich and the three universities of Berlin.
It will take place in Bildungszentrum Matt in Schwarzenberg (Switzerland),
a village in the vicinity of the Pilatus mountain range that is reachable
in 30 minutes from Lucerne and in 90 minutes from Zurich (by train and bus).
See also here.
SCHOOL SCHEDULE
Participants are expected to arrive in Schwarzenberg on Sunday,
September 22, 2002. Lectures will then be given from Monday to
Friday. Each lecturer will teach one or several lectures, covering
half a day or a full day of the school's program. Lectures will be
accompanied by exercises that can be solved by the students during
times especially reserved for this purpose. On at least one of the
days we will have an excursion in the afternoon.
PARTICIPATION
Participation is open to all qualified applicants, but the number of
participants will be limited to a maximum of about 30. There will be no
participation fee, but an amount of approximately 500 SFr. (Swiss Francs)
will have to be paid to cover the costs for accomodation (shared double-
room) and meals (from Sunday evening to Friday evening). Students who
want to participate in the school should send an application letter with
a curriculum vitae (stating also their previous knowledge in fields
related to the theme of the school) and a brief letter of reference by
a university professor to the following address until July 21, 2002:
Prof. Thomas Erlebach
Institut TIK, ETH Zurich
Gloriastrasse 35
CH-8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Email: erlebach@tik.ee.ethz.ch
Fax: +41-1-632-1036
Phone: +41-1-632-7050
We have received many more applications than we have places in
the school already before the early application deadline
(June 5, 2002). Therefore, it is very unlikely that we can
accept additional participants.
CONTACT
For further information, please contact one of the organizers:
- Thomas Erlebach
- Peter Widmayer
Last modified on 2006-07-23
by Thomas Erlebach
|
Copyright © 2000-2002
|