ACCOTA 2006
(Ten Years)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to announce that our next workshop ACCOTA'2006, Aspectos Combinatorios y Computacionales de Optimizacion, Topologia y Algebra (Combinatorial and Computational Aspects of Optimization, Topology and Algebra) will be held December 3 to 8, 2006 in the beautiful harbor city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. As in earlier ACCOTA's, our aim is to bring together mathematicians interested in combinatorics and computing, and their interactions. The Workshop's lectures and contributed papers, as well as the opportunity for informal mathematical discussion, have proved to be of great interest to participants in previous years. Each discipline represented in the meeting can be of great use in each of the other disciplines, and the purpose of the Workshop is to increase the interaction among researchers in each of the fields represented. In this year's workshop we celebrate ten years of the event, thus modifying slightly its format.

As in ACCOTA'95, ACCOTA'96, ACCOTA'98, ACCOTA'2000, ACCOTA'2002 and ACCOTA'2004 workshops, we are expecting internationally recognized mathematicians in the areas of combinatorics and computer science to participate in the workshop this year.

For this Workshop, we hope to count with most of our previous participants, for whom we are asking confirmation:
A. Alcantar, G. Araujo, D. Archdeacon, J. Arocha, M. Balinski, V. Bonanzinga, J. Bonin, A. Bouchet, V. J. Bracho, G. Calvillo, C. Colbourn, M. Chari, M. Chudnovsky, J.A. De la Peña, A. de Mier, J. Edmonds, S. Eliahou, G. Even, R. Faudree, H. Galeana, E. Gallegos, E. Garcia-Moreno, I. Gitler, H. Glover, L. Goddyn, M. Goemans, R. Gould, A. Guedes de O., P. Hell, M. Herlihy, P. Hlineny, H.A. Juarez, G. Karolyi, B. Korte, G. Kortsarz, J. Kratochvil, F. Larrion, I. Lopez, R. Lopez-Bracho, F. Luca, W. Mader, J. Martinez-Bernal, A. Menezes, C. Merino, L. Mendoza, G. Mohar, L. Montejano, J.J. Montellano, G. Morales-Luna, U.S.R. Murty, D. Naddef, J. Nesetril, S. Norine, M. Noy, M. Olsen, B. Oporowski, J. Pach, D. Peleg, S. Provan, S. Rajsbaum, J. Ramirez-Alfonsin, M.P. Revuelta, E. Rivera, N. Robertson, G. Rodriguez, R. Rojas, D. Romero, M. Ruszinko, F. Sagols, G. Salazar, A. Sanchez-Flores, I. Sarmiento, R. San Agustin, J. Seade, P. Seymour, B. Shepherd, A. Sprague, R. Strausz, J.L. Szwarcfiter, H. Tapia, R. Thomas, K. Truemper, J. Urrutia, C.E. Valencia, E. Vallejo, L. Verde, D. Vertigan, R. Villarreal, D. Welsh, G. Whittle, P. Wiederhol, P. Wollan, F. Zaragoza, R.E. Zuazua.

We are also extending invitations to other colleagues and will notify their participation once confirmed.

The program is planned to include 40 talks. Because of the limited number of time slots, we would greatly appreciate if you would let us know whether or not your intention to participate (please fill in the registration form at http://accota.math.cinvestav.mx/ ). Participants who wish to give a talk are asked to submit a title and an extended abstract of their talk.

Because of budget cuts and restraints in our national scientific programs we can only promise to make our best effort to cover a part of the travel expenses or hotel expenses for exceptional requests. We can only cover a very small number of expense petitions.

The members of the organizing committee are:
Gilberto Calvillo (INEGI), Isidoro Gitler (CINVESTAV-IPN), Jose Martinez-Bernal (CINVESTAV-IPN), Sergio Rajsbaum (Imate UNAM), David Romero (IMATE Cuernavaca), Feliu Sagols (CINVESTAV-IPN), Gelasio Salazar (IICO-UASLP), Jorge Urrutia (IMATE UNAM) and Carlos Valencia (IMATE UNAM).

Sponsors:
Departamento de Matematicas CINVESTAV-IPN, CINVESTAV-IPN, INEGI, IMATE-UNAM, and CONACYT.

A second announcement will be sent in May to all who intend to participate and have let us known so. All relevant information (final program, hotels and reservations, transportation, etc.) will be available at the Internet address given below.

http://accota.math.cinvestav.mx