CSC05 Announcement

Second International Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC05)
June 21--23, 2005
Toulouse, France
URL: www.cerfacs.fr/algor/CSC05

The Second International Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing
(CSC05) will be organized at CERFACS, Toulouse, June 21--23, 2005.
The workshop, organized in cooperation with SIAM, CERFACS,
ENSEEIHT-IRIT, and INRIA, will provide a  forum for
researchers interested in the  interaction of
combinatorial mathematics and algorithms with scientific computing
to discuss current developments in research.

CSC05 follows the pioneering
SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC04)
held at San Francisco in Feb 2004.
The CSC04 Workshop, attended by close to a hundred participants,
featured three plenary talks and 21 selected talks
on the themes of sparse matrix computations, high-performance algorithms,
combinatorial problems in optimization and automatic differentiation,
mesh generation, computational biology, and combinatorial matrix theory.
The CSC05 Workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in
these themes as well as other aspects
of combinatorial mathematics and algorithms in scientific computing,
broadly interpreted.
Researchers in emerging application areas
as well as  theoretical areas that intersect with combinatorial
scientific computing, e.g.,  information science,
networks, bioinformatics, and combinatorial optimization,
are invited to participate.

Contributed presentations in lecture format are invited in all areas
consistent with the workshop themes.
A 2-page extended abstract, in PDF format,
of a proposed talk should be submitted  by February 21, 2005.
The submission procedure is described
on the web page for the conference (listed above).
Authors will be notified of acceptance of their talks by mid March.

Toulouse, the capital of the Midi-Pyrenees region of France,
is a European center for science and technology,
and is close to the Pyrenees mountains, the Mediterranean Sea,
Carcassone, and many  tourist attractions.
The Workshop will be held at the Conference Center of the
Meteo France campus, where CERFACS is located.
A limited number of rooms (single and double) will be  available
at the Meteo.

Further details on workshop registration, hotels and housing
options, etc., will be   posted as they become available at
the conference web page.

LOCAL COMMITTEE
Patrick R. Amestoy (IRIT, Toulouse and ScAlApplix, INRIA)
Iain Duff (CERFACS, France and Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK)
Luc Giraud (CERFACS, France)
Serge Gratton (CERFACS, France)
Brigitte Yzel (Secretary)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Iain Duff, CERFACS and Rutherford Laboratory (Co-Chair)
John Gilbert, University of California, Santa Barbara (Co-Chair)
Alex Pothen, Old Dominion University (Co-Chair)
Patrick R. Amestoy, IRIT, Toulouse and ScAlApplix, INRIA
Rob Bisseling, University of Utrecht
Andreas Griewank,  Humboldt University, Berlin
Jean-Yves L'Excellent,  INRIA, Lyon
Cynthia A. Phillips,  Sandia National Labs
Bryan Shader,  University of Wyoming

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