6th Workshop on the Matthews-Sumner Conjecture and Related Problems

Domazlice, April 17-22, 2011

After the workshop

Slides and pictures for some of the talks are available:

Photos from the workshop can be found in the photo gallery.

The future of the workshop: it was agreed this year that the workshop will take place biannually, in the week preceding the Easter. Thus the dates for the next workshop should be

March 24-29, 2013.

Many thanks to all the participants for their part in making the workshop an enjoyable event.


About the workshop

The workshop was focused on problems and results related to the celebrated Matthews-Sumner Conjecture whose equivalent forms assert:

Topics within the scope of the workshop included:

This event was the sixth in a series of workshops held in Nectiny (1999 and 2000), Hannover (2002), Hajek (2003) and Domazlice (2008).

Location and dates

Domazlice is a charming town about 50 kms southwest of Pilsen (see here for some photos). The workshop began with dinner on April 17 and ended with breakfast on April 22. It took place in the hotel Sokolsky dum on the main square of Domazlice.

Accommodation was arranged in Sokolsky dum and another hotel situated very close to it, Penzion U Chodskeho hradu.

Participants

The following is the list of participants:
Hajo Broersma Ralph Faudree Jiri Fiala Evelyne Flandrin
Shinya Fujita Luis Goddyn Matthias Kriesell Hao Li
Arthur Hoffmann Ostenhof Kenta Ozeki Daniel Paulusma Kiyoshi Yoshimoto
C.-Q. Zhang

...plus the organizers (Herbert Fleischner and Zdenek Ryjacek) and the Pilsen group.

Organizers and contact

The workshop was co-organized by the Department of Mathematics at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and by the Pilsen branch of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists. Support from the Research Plan MSM 4977751301 of the Czech Ministry of Education, and from the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI), is gratefully acknowledged.

The organizing committee was chaired by Herbert Fleischner and Zdenek Ryjacek.

If you need additional information, please write to ryjacek [@] kma [.] zcu [.] cz.