Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées

CIMPA-UNESCO-MESR-MICINN-BURKINA FASO research School

Report by Idrissa Kaboré & Théodore Tapsoba

Report by Julien Cassaigne & Marie-Françoise Roy

Objectives :

The school aims to develop research on discrete mathematics in West Africa, and more generally on topics at the interface between mathematics and computer science.

It is a followup of the thematic semester "Mathematics and computer science : towards new interactions" that was organised at CIRM (Marseille) in 2010, and is supported by the African network of geometry and algebra applied to development (RAGAAD) and by the cooperation agreement between Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille) and Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso.

The proposed lectures cover various topics that are strongly linked with each other : combinatorics on words, symbolic dynamics, tilings and cellular automata, graphs. Additionally, the school includes an initiation to the free mathematical software Sage, and to its combinatorics library Sage-Combinat.

Organizing committee :

 Idrissa Kaboré, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, ikaborei@yahoo.fr
 Julien Cassaigne, Marseille, France, cassaigne@iml.univ-mrs.fr

Dates and location :

October 29 - November 9, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Scientific programme :

 Lectures :

1. Combinatorics on words (Julien Cassaigne, Marseille, France)
2. Discrete geometry and Rauzy fractals (Tarek Sellami, Sfax, Tunisia)
3. Invariant measures in symbolic dynamics (Thierry Monteil, Montpellier, France)
4. Symbolic dynamics and piecewise isometries (Nicolas Bédaride, Marseille, France)
5. Tilings : from local to global (Mathieu Sablik, Marseille, France)
6. Dynamics of cellular automata (Alejandro Maass, Santiago, Chile)
7. Algorithmics of graphs, parametrized complexities and kernels (Stéphane Bessy, Montpellier, France)
8. Initiation to the mathematical software Sage (Nicolas M. Thiéry, Orsay, France, and/or Franco Saliola, Montreal, Canada).

 Talks :

1. Modelling genetic regulation systems with graphs and discrete dynamical systems (Anne Crumière, Marseille, France)

(other talks will be added later)

Deadline for registration :

September 3, 2012

Application procedure and Online registration only for applicants not from Burkina Faso.

Applicants from Burkina Faso must contact the local organizer : Idrissa Kaboré ikaborei@yahoo.fr