[Opt-Net] Sao Paulo School on Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization

[Marcel K. de Carli Silva]

SECOND CALL: São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Algorithms,  
Combinatorics and Optimization, July 2016, Brazil

The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Algorithms, Combinatorics  
and Optimization (SPSAS-ACO) will be held from 18 to 29 July 2016, at  
the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

http://sp-school2016.ime.usp.br

The school is aimed at Master's students, PhD students, and young  
researchers.  Exceptional undergraduate students may also qualify.

COURSES:

- Robert Kleinberg (Cornell), Combinatorial stochastic search and selection

- Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (USP), The regularity method and blow-up lemmas  
for sparse graphs

- Alexandr Kostochka (UIUC), Coloring sparse graphs with few colors

- Daniel Král' (Warwick), Graph limits and their applications in  
extremal combinatorics

- Cláudio L. Lucchesi (UFMS), The perfect matching polytope, solid  
bricks and the perfect matching lattice

- Flávio K. Miyazawa (UNICAMP) and Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho  
(USP), Geometric packing

- Rob Morris (IMPA), The method of hypergraph containers

- Sinai Robins (USP), Harmonic analysis on polytopes and cones

- Levent Tunçel (Waterloo), Semidefinite programming techniques in  
combinatorial optimization

- Eli Upfal (Brown), Sample complexity and uniform convergence

- David Williamson (Cornell), Recent progress in approximation  
algorithms for the traveling salesman problem

Additionally, there will be a series of talks on advanced research  
topics and participants will be invited to present their work in  
poster sessions.  The school will provide a congenial environment for  
participant interaction.

Participants may choose the courses they will attend, but are expected  
to stay for the whole duration of the school (arrival date: 17 July;  
departure date: 30 July).  We expect to have around 85 students and  
young researchers.

COSTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

The school expects to provide funding to most participants.   
Participants that are successful in their funding application will  
have their local expenses (including the early registration fee) fully  
covered.  Help towards travelling expenses will also be provided to  
most participants.

APPLICATION:

An online application form is available at http://sp-school2016.ime.usp.br

Please use the form above to apply for funding.  Funding applications  
sent by March 28 will receive full consideration.  Even if you do  
_not_ require funding, please fill in the form at the URL above.

Applicants will be contacted in mid-April with information concerning  
their acceptance.

REGISTRATION:

Early registration (by 1 May 2016): 50 US dollars (students) and 80 US  
dollars (others).  Late registration (by 20 June 2016): 80 US dollars  
(students) and 100 US dollars (others).

Further information on the registration procedure and fee payment will  
be available soon.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Please visit the pages of the school regularly:

http://sp-school2016.ime.usp.br
https://www.facebook.com/spschool2016/

SPONSOR

The school is financed by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP),  
under the SPSAS program: http://espca.fapesp.br/home