A Workshop to Celebrate the 60th Birthday of Alan Frieze.
Dates: Oct 21 and 22 2005
Location: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
As you may recall from our earlier announcement, Alan Frieze is turning 60 this coming Fall, and we are celebrating with a workshop focusing on probabilistic combinatorics and randomized algorithms.
There is a new web site for the workshop which includes a tentative schedule as well as registration, banquet and hotel information.
http://www.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/workshops/ffest/
There will be no registration fee if you register before Friday, September 30, 2005. Please register early to help us with planning. On the evening of Friday, 21 October 2005, there will be a workshop banquet featuring reminiscences about the life and career of Alan Frieze (both respectful and otherwise).
IMPORTANT: Out-of-town visitors should make hotel reservations immediately since availability is severely limited due a number of events in Pittsburgh on the weekend of the workshop.
Graduate student and post-doc funding: Travel funding is available for a limited number of graduate students and/or postdocs who will be attending the workshop. This funding is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents. To apply send a description of your research interests and one brief letter of support (preferably from an academic advisor) to Tom Bohman at tbohman@math.cmu.edu. Applications for this funding must be received by September 15, 2005. Travel awards will be in the form of room (3 nights stay in a shared hotel room) and up to \$300 for airfare.
As you may know, FOCS will be held in Pittsburgh, beginning the day after this workshop.
FriezeFest 2005 is being sponsored by the National Security Agency, the Aladdin center at CMU, the Tepper School of Business and the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
We hope that you will be able to join us,
Tom Bohman, Mike Molloy and R. Ravi
