Wednesday, September 28, 2016

[DMANET] XII Escuela de Verano en Matematicas Discretas

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XII Escuela de Verano en Matematicas Discretas
http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2017/
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The school is aimed to students in mathematics, sciences and engineering
interested in algorithms, combinatorics, optimization, games, and their
diverse applications. The courses are oriented towards graduate and
advance undergraduate students.
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Dates: January 3-6, 2017.
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Place: Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaiso (http://www.iscv.cl/),
Valparaiso, Chile.
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Courses:

- David Shmoys, Cornell U.
"Approximation algorithms for the traveling salesman problem (and
related recent advances)"

- Neil Olver, VU Amsterdam and CWI.
"Advanced Network Flows"

- Santosh Vempala, Georgia Tech
"Computing the Volume in High Dimension" (in spanish)

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Application deadline: October 19.
The accepted students will receive financial aid enough to cover local
expenses in Valparaiso. More info at
http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2017/postulaciones/
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