Important Dates
 April 11:  deadline for students to apply for financial support.
 April 14:  notification of financial support.
 April 16:  last day hotel Days Inn is holding rooms for the conference.
 April 18:  final abstracts due for OCW.
 May 1-3: OCW and Discrete Math Day activities.

Schedule of Events  [All Talks and Speakers]  [All Abstracts] Note: later finishing time on Saturday. Note room change on Saturday. Thursd., May 1   ONTARIO COMBINATORICS WORKSHOP (day 1) 8:30  Coffee and registration (no fee) 8:50  Opening remarks 9:00-10:00  Invited Talk: Nick Wormald (U Waterloo)  Two choices are better than one, but by how much? Coffee and tea break 10:20-12:40 Contributed Talks: Session I Lunch: catered lunch at SITE cafeteria (1st floor) 1:30-2:30  Invited Talk: Brian Alspach (U Regina) Poker and Mathematics 2:40-3:40  Contributed Talks: Session II Coffee and tea break 4:00-6:00  Contributed Talks: Session III Friday, May 2   ONTARIO COMBINATORICS WORKSHOP (day 2) 8:30  Coffee and registration (no fee) 9:00-10:00  Invited Talk: Sylvia Boyd (U Ottawa) Methods for hard combinatorial optimization problems - a guided tour Coffee and tea break 10:20-12:20 Contributed talks: Session IV Lunch: catered lunch at SITE cafeteria (1st floor) 1:20-3:20  Contributed talks: Session V 3:30- 4:30 Invited Talk: Ram  Murty (Queen's U) Ramanujan Graphs  [this is a joint Math&Stats Colloquium] 5:00-7:00 Reception: Cafe Nostalgica. Saturday, May 3   OTTAWA-CARLETON DISCRETE MATH DAY 9:30-10:00 Coffee and registration (no fee) 10:00-11:00 Bill Cunningham  (U Waterloo) Even Factors in Digraphs Coffee and tea break 11:30-12:30 Endre Szemerédi (Rutgers U) Long Arithmetic Progressions in Sum-set sums 12:30-2:30 Lunch: Walk to the Market (via cannal); choose restaurant. 2:30-3:30 Clement Lam (Concordia U) Block design existence -- when it rains, it pours Coffee and tea break 4:00-5:00 Brian Alspach (U Regina) Searching and Sweeping Graphs 5:00-5:30 Farewell

Discrete Math Day, 2002

Location

Rooms: S.I.T.E. B-0138 (Thursday/Friday)               S.I.T.E. H-0104 (Saturday only) School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa parking: parking lots map, parking info campus map

Peter Rodney Book Prize
The best talk given by a student at the Ontario Combinatorics Workshop will be awarded the Peter Rodney Memorial Book Prize. This prize of a book and memorial book plate is given in honour of Dr. Peter Rodney (1965-1995). Dr. Peter Rodney graduated from McGill University, and then obtained his Masters and Ph.D degrees in Combinatorics, from the University of Toronto. He graduated in 1993 and went on to do postdoctoral research at the University of Vermont. He then continued to work in both the public and private sectors, using discrete mathematics, cryptography, and number theory. He had a deep appreciation for probability theory and was an avid card player. He died unexpectedly at the age of 30. His friends and family created a fund in his memory whose proceeds finance this book prize.

Student Application for Financial Support
Students speaking at the OCW and travelling to Ottawa can apply for financial support.
Complete this application form and send to:
Mateja Sajna (msajna@science.uottawa.ca) or Brett Stevens (brett@math.carleton.ca).
Application deadline: Friday April 11 (applications after this date will be considered, if funds available)
Notification of financial support: Monday April 14
Deadline to submit final abstract: Friday April 18

Submitting an Abstract to OCW
Please send an abstract or intend to speak at OCW by Friday April 11.
Final abstract are due by Friday April 18.
Send abstracts to: Mateja Sajna (msajna@science.uottawa.ca) or Brett Stevens (brett@math.carleton.ca).

Accommodations

Days Inn  319 Rideau St ,Ottawa, phone:(613)789-5555
20 rooms will be held for the conference until April 16, after that it will depend on availability.
conference rate: $99 a night per room for one or two people.
room types: 2 queen size beds nonsmoking; 2 double beds smoking; 1queen size bed and one sofa.
booking: mention OCW booking ,by e-mail: daysinnottawa@orhma.biz, by phone: (613)789-5555

Sharing a room at the Days Inn
We can put you in touch with another person in order to share a room (The price is half!).
Please, e-mail Gabriel Verret  gverr026@uottawa.ca; he will be happy to put you in touch with a roomate.

Other recommended hotels:
Quality Hotel:  290 Rideau St, (613) 789-7511
Lord Elgin Hotel: 100 Elgin St, (613) 235-3333
Novotel Ottawa: 33 Nicholas St, (613) 230-3033, reservations: 1-800-668-6835
The Westin Ottawa: 11 Colonel By Dr, (613)560-7000
For more information on hotel accommodations go to www.ottawa.com and go to accommodations.

Around Ottawa

While in Ottawa, take some time to enjoy these other events: MITACS Annual Conference at the National Arts Centre (May 8-10) Canadian Tulip Festival (May 1-19) Atlantic Scene, the Atlantic Canadian Cultural Festival (April 22-May 4)

Support

University of Ottawa
Carleton University

Organizers
Sylvia Boyd,  Lucia Moura, Mateja Sajna  (University of Ottawa)
Jason Gao, Daniel Panario, Irwin Pressman,  Brett Stevens (Carleton University)

Contacts

Mateja Sajna  University of Ottawa  (613) 562-5800 x3788  FAX: (613) 562-5776  msajna@uottawa.ca

Brett Stevens  Carleton University  (613) 520-2600 x2125  FAX: (613) 520-3536  brett@math.carleton.ca