For a few years, an increasing number of researchers has been interested in discrete models from several points of view: computer science, mathematics, physics, biology, ... Many different problems were unified thanks to these studies, and a new field of research appeared. The aim of this conference is to put together researchers working on various aspects of the discrete models studies and to give the opportunity of fruitful exchanges.

The conference will consist in invited talks, contributed presentations selected after a refeering procedure, and poster sessions. The proceedings will be published as a special issue of DMTCS (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science). DM-CCG will take place in Paris (France) on July 2-5 2001 at the Institut Henri Poincare (map).

Program

Researchers interested in the following subjects (non exhaustive list) are encouraged to submit and/or to participate:

• (Abelian) Sand Pile Model
• Chip Firing Games
• Convergent Games
• Integer Partitions
• Cellular Automata
• Tilings
• Polytopes
• Quasi-crystals
• Integrable Models

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Important dates:

Deadline for submission: February, 4 2001.

Notification of acceptance/rejection: April, 4 2001.

Definitive version due: April, 20 2001.

Reduced registration fees until: May, 25 2001.

Registration

Submission of papers

Invited speakers :

Jean-Paul Allouche (LRI, Orsay, France)

Anders Bjorner (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)

Mireille Bousquet-Melou (LABRI, Bordeaux, France)

Nicolas Destainville (LPQ-IRSAMC, Toulouse, France)

Deepak Dhar (TIFR, Bombay, India)

Michel Duneau (CPHT, Palaiseau, France)

Eric Goles (DIM, Santiago, Chile)

Denis Gratias (LEM, Chatillon, France)

Richard Kenyon (TDS, Orsay, France)

Cris Moore (SFI, Santa Fe, USA)

James Propp (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Guenter Ziegler (TU, Berlin, Germany)

Steering Committee :

Robert Cori (LABRI, Univ. Bordeaux I and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)

Jacques Mazoyer (LIP, ENS Lyon)

Michel Morvan (LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII, and IUF)

Remy Mosseri (GPS, Univ. Paris VI)

Organizing Committee

Sebastien Desreux (DDM, LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

Matthieu Latapy (DDM, LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

Clemence Magnien (DDM, LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

Maurice Nivat (LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

Jean-Christophe Novelli (DDM, LIFL, Univ. Lille I)

Ha Duong Phan (DDM, LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

Eric Remila (LIP, ENS Lyon)

Dominique Rossin (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)

Laurent Vuillon (DDM, LIAFA, Univ. Paris VII)

The conference is organized by the Maison de l'Informatique et des Mathematiques Discretes (MIMD).

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