R. C. BOSE CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM ON
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND APPLICATIONS

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, Kolkata
20-23 December 2002

Second Announcement

The following is a list, as of 19 August 2002, of persons from
outside India, who are likely to participate in the Symposium.

1. P. Camion
2. F. DeClerck
3. Cunsheng Ding
4. A. W. M. Dress
5. M. C. Golumbic
6. A. S. Hedayat
7. S. Kageyama
8. G. O. H. Katona
9. R. Laskar
10. Saumen Mandal
11. T. O'Brien
12. Rossella Petreschi
13. A. Pott
14. S. Puntanen
15. D. Raghava Rao
16. C. R. Rao
17. D. K. Ray Chaudhuri
18. N. Robertson
19. J. Seberry
20. Hao Shen
21. Mohan Shrikhande
22. M. Simonovits
23. V. T. Sos
24. J. A. Thas
25. V. D. Tonchev

Besides, about 40 persons from within India are expected
to participate  in the Symposium.

All those who have not yet sent abstracts of the papers for the
Symposium are requested to send the abstracts by 31 August
and the papers by 30 September 2002. Those who have not yet
contacted the Coordinator/confirmed their participation
in the sympopsium, are requested to do so at the earliest.

The papers submitted for presentation will be pre-refereed and
those accepted will appear in ELECTRONIC NOTES IN DISCRETE
MATHEMATICS. There will be further thorough refereeing of all the
papers, for inclusion in the Proceedings which will appear as a
special volume of the journal DISCRETE MATHEMATICS. The special
volume will have

D. K. Ray Chaudhuri, A. R. Rao and B. K. Roy

as Guest Editors. There will also be a Guest Editorial Board
consisting of

Bhaskar Bagchi (ISI, Bangalore)
Paul Camion (Paris)
M. C. Golumbic (Haifa)
A. S. Hedayat (Chicago)
G. O. H. Katona (Budapest)
Renu Laskar (Clemson)
Rahul Mukerjee (IIM, Kolkata)
R. C. Mullin (Waterloo)
S. B. Rao (ISI, Kolkata)
Jennifer Seberry (Wollongong)
Hao Shen (Shanghai)
K. Sikdar (ISI, Kolkata)
N. M. Singhi (TIFR, Mumbai)
Bikash K. Sinha (ISI, Kolkata)
Vera T. Sos (Budapest)
K. S. Vijayan (ISI, Kolkata)

Details regarding the sympoisum have been given in the First
Announcement. The Workshop to be conducted just before the
Symposium is being funded partly by the Department of Science
a nd Technology of the Government of India.

The registration fee may be paid after being informed of the
acceptance of the paper for presentation in the symposium /
application for participating in the Workshop, by bank draft
drawn in favour of Indian Statistical Institute and payable at
Kolkata.

Contact person: Prof. A. R. Rao
Coordinator, Bose Centenary Workshop and Symposium
Stat-Math Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B. T. Road, Kolkata 700 108
e-mail: rcbose@isical.ac.in
fax: +91-33-5773071

webpage: www.isical.ac.in/~rcbose