Time passes fast, no one would believe it, but Laci Lovász turns sixty in 2008. To celebrate his enormous contribution to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithm theory, in general and connecting Combinatorics and Computer Science in particular, with various other fields of Mathematics, The János Bolyai Mathematical Society, the Eötvös Lóránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics organize an international conference entitled Building Bridges between August 5th, 2008 and August 9th, 2008. It will be held at Gólyavár, near the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary.
There will be only invited talks. The Program Committee has put together a list of outstanding mathematicians and computer scientists with the aim to create a scientific program (almost) on a par with Laci's research achievements.

Another, connected conference of similar topics entitled Fete of Combinatorics and Computer Science will be held in Keszthely at Lake Balaton, Hungary right after Building Bridges, where contributed talks are welcome.

Invited speakers who have already accepted our invitation

  • Noga Alon
  • Imre Bárány
  • Anders Björner
  • Béla Bollobás
  • Christian Borgs
  • Jennifer Chayes
  • Uriel Feige
  • András Frank
  • Michel X. Goemans
  • Shafi Goldwasser
  • András Hajnal
  • Jeff Kahn
  • Gil Kalai
  • Ravi Kannan
  • Richard Karp
  • Bernhard Korte
  • Hendrik Lenstra
  • Nathan Linial
  • Jaroslav Nešetřil
  • Mike Plummer
  • Herbert Scarf
  • Miklós Simonovits
  • Vera T. Sós
  • Joel Spencer
  • Balázs Szegedy
  • Endre Szemerédi
  • Éva Tardos
  • Gábor Tardos
  • Santosh Vempala
  • Katalin Vesztergombi
  • Van H. Vu
  • Peter Winkler
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Program Committee

  • Christian Borgs
  • Jennifer Chayes
  • Martin Groetschel (chair)
  • Ravi Kannan
  • Gyula OH Katona
  • Lex Schrijver
  • Miklós Simonovits
  • Vera T. Sós
  • Avi Wigderson

Organizing Committee

  • Gyula O.H. Katona (chair)
  • Dezső Miklós (co-chair)
  • András Frank
  • Ervin Győri
  • Péter Hajnal
  • András Recski
  • Miklós Simonovits
  • Vera T. Sós
  • Tamás Szőnyi
  • Cecília Kulcsár (co-secretary)
  • Attila Sali (co-secretary)
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Looking forward to seeing you in Budapest,

                                                                    the organizers

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