Thursday, May 20, Morning (Chair M. Santha) 09h00-09h05: Welcoming 09h05-09h55: Randomized algorithms over the real and complex numbers Pascal Koiran (Lyon) 09h55-10h15: A Fast Approximation Algorithm for TSP with Neighborhoods and Red-Blue Separation Christos Levcopoulos (Lund) 10h15-10h45: Coffee break 10h45-11h30: Algorithmic and analytic aspects of the digital tree process Philippe Flajolet (Rocquencourt) 11h30-12h15: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis of a Class of Euclidean Algorithms Brigitte Vallee (Caen) 12h15-14h00: LUNCH 14h00-14h30: Payment for stays in the Centre the Formation Thursday, May 20, Afternoon (Chair M. Karpinski) 14h30-15h15: Optimal Bounds for the Predecessor Problem Faith Fich (Orsay) 15h15-16h00: Independent sets in bounded-degree graphs. Mark Jerrum (Edinburgh) 16h00-16h30: Coffee break 16h30-17h15: The complexity of counting graph homomorphisms Catherine Greenhill (Leeds) 17h15-17h45: Slow mixing of random walks for graph homomorphisms Martin Dyer (Leeds) Friday, May 21, Morning (Chair D. Welsh) 09h00-09h40: Quantum Counting Michele Mosca (Oxford) 09h40-10h30: Quantum Communication Complexity Harry Buhrman (Amsterdam) 10h30-11h00: Coffee break 11h00-11h50: Spooky Communication Complexity Gilles Brassard (Montreal) 11h50-12h30: Quantum Complexity in the Black-Box Model Ronald de Wolf (Amsterdam) 12h30-14h30: LUNCH Friday, May 21, Afternoon (Chair M. Dyer) 14h30-15h15: Sorting by Reversals is Hard to Approximate Within Certain Constant Marek Karpinski (Bonn) 15h15-16h00: Concentration for random minimmum spanning trees Colin McDiarmid (Oxford) 16h00-16h30: Coffe break 16h30-17h00: The Giant Component is Normal Stephane Boucheron (Orsay) 17h00-17h45: How tall are the trees? Bruce Reed (Paris) Saturday, May 22, Morning (Chair M. Jerrum) 09h00-09h50: Relaxation properties of Metropolis and Kawasaki dynamics for lattice spin models: an overview Martinelli Fabio (Roma) 09h50-10h35: Fast randomized algorithms for matrix algebras over finite fields Gabor Ivanyos (Budapest) 10h35-11h05: Coffee break 11h05-11h35: Improved Bounds for Random-Self-Reductions, Rounds, and Advice Sophie Laplante (Orsay) 11h35-12h20: On Recycling the Randomness of States in Space Bounded Computation Ran Raz (Rehovot)