On the occasion of the 60th birthday of

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Ahlswede

the Sonderforschungsbereich "Discrete Structures in Mathematics" organizes a symposium

Numbers, Information and Complexity

on October 8 - 11, 1998
with invited lectures on Combinatorics, Combinatorial Number Theory, Information Theory, and applications of these fields in Computer Science. Leading experts will report on recent developments and outline future directions of research.
There will be a special colloquium dinner on Friday, October 9, in honour of Prof. Rudolf Ahlswede.

The topics include

icon Coding Theory and Search Theory
icon Identification, Common Randomness, and General Information Transfer
icon Side Information in Games and in Statistics
icon Memories
icon Networks and Computer Communication
icon Cryptology and Data Security
icon Information in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
icon Number Theory
icon Combinatorial Extremal Problems
icon Probabilistic Methods and Probabilistic Algorithms
icon Inequalities

icon Schedule
icon Hotel Information
icon Bielefeld -- How to get there and how to survive
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For further information please contact:

     Bernhard Balkenhol, Ulrich Tamm
     Fakultät für Mathematik
     Universität Bielefeld
     Postfach 100131
     33501 Bielefeld
     Germany

     FAX: +49 521 106 4743

     E-mail: SympAhls@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de