=============================================== 21st Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics =============================================== FPSAC'09 =============================================== July 20-24, 2009 Hagenberg, Austria =============================================== Third announcement -- Call for papers ********************************************************** ******** Extended deadline till November 24, 2008 ******** ********************************************************** Topics All aspects of combinatorics and their relations with other parts of mathematics, physics, computer science and biology. Conference program Invited lectures, contributed presentations, poster session, problem session and software demonstrations. As usual there will be no parallel sessions. Official languages The official languages of the conference are English and French. Invited Speakers Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan, USA) Karin Erdmann (University of Oxford, UK) Jaroslav Nesetril (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) Bruno Salvy (INRIA Rocquencourt, France) Carsten Schneider (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Michael F. Singer (North Carolina State University, USA) Frank Sottile (Texas A&M University, USA) Volkmar Welker (Philipps University Marburg, Germany) Ae Ja Yee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Call for papers and posters Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of at most twelve pages by November 24, 2008 (extended deadline). To submit papers please visit the conference web site http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/fpsac2009 Author instructions can also be found at the conference website. The submitted papers should begin with a short abstract written both in English and in French (translation provided if necessary). Authors should indicate the mode of presentation which they consider appropriate for their paper, i.e. lecture or poster session. The notifications of acceptance are scheduled for February 20, 2009. Important Note: Each submitted abstract must be prepared in accordance with AMS-LaTeX (see http://www.ams.org/tex/). Authors are encouraged to use the LaTeX template which will be provided on the 'Submission' section of the conference web site. Open problem session Contributions to the problem session are invited in advance of the conference dates. People interested in submitting a problem in advance should submit it via http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/fpsac2009 before June 30, 2009. Software demonstrations Demonstrations of software relevant to the topics of the conference are encouraged. People interested in giving a software demonstration should submit through our website before February 20, 2009, a paper briefly explaining the software, and including the hardware requirements. Graduate student papers In an ongoing FPSAC tradition, an award will be made for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. Students submitting extended abstracts are invited to indicate their eligibility for this award. Participant support Limited funds are available for partial support of participants, in particular for students, junior scientists and mathematicians from underrepresented groups. Requests should contain a letter of recommendation and include the estimated transportation and living expenses for the duration of the conference as well as the amount of any support available from other sources. All requests should be sent by March 1, 2009 to an address which we will announce at a later point. Location The conference will take place at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Austria. Further information All important information concerning FPSAC'09 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/fpsac2009 More details will be given in future announcements. Summary of important dates Submission of abstracts: November 17, 2008 Extended Deadline: November 24, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2009 Requests for support: March 1, 2009 Conference begins: July 20, 2009 Program Committee ----------------- Co-Chairs: Christian Krattenthaler (University of Vienna, Austria) Volker Strehl (University of Erlangen, Germany) Members: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University, USA) Philippe Caldero (Universite Lyon-I, France) Eva-Maria Feichtner (University of Bremen, Germany) Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan, USA) Jan de Gier (University of Melbourne, Australia) Antonio Giambruno (University of Palermo, Italy) Takayuki Hibi (University of Osaka, Japan) Alain Lascoux (Universite Marne-la-Vallee, France) Ezra Miller (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) Maxim Nazarov (University of York, UK) Marc Noy (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Grigori Olshanski (Dobrushin Mathematics Laboratory, Moscow, Russia) Soichi Okada (University of Nagoya, Japan) Marko Petkovsek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Amitai Regev (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel) Monica Vazirani (University of California, Davis, USA) Michelle Wachs (University of Miami, USA) Lauren K. Williams (Harvard University, Boston, USA) Catherine Yan (Texas A&M University, USA) Organizing Committee -------------------- Chair: Peter Paule (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Members: Susanna Fishel (Arizona State University, USA) Ralf Hemmecke (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Franz Lichtenberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Local Arrangements Committee ---------------------------- Burcin Erocal (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Manuel Kauers (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Christoph Koutschan (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Veronika Pillwein (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Clemens Raab (DK Computational Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Silviu Radu (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Flavia Stan (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Staff Assistants ---------------- Tanja Gutenbrunner (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Marion Schimpl (DK Computational Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)