The Bay Area Discrete Math Day, SPRING 2004
The Eighth Bay Area Discrete Math Day will take place at Stanford University on Saturday
May 1, 2004, between 10:00 and 6:00, in 380-380X, (in the basement of
the Stanford mathematics department). All
parking lots near the math department are free on Saturdays.
Bay Area Discrete Math Days are one-day meetings aimed at
facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students
of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area. These days
happen semi-annually and strive to create a fairly informal atmosphere
to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is
chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and
Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and
Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and
Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, and
Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics
A poster to advertise the meeting is available in postscript and pdf formats.
Schedule
There will not be any registration fee, but ALL potential
participants are kindly requested to send email if you plan to
attend. Please indicate dietary restrictions and
whether you will join us for dinner. Information on the area hotels
is available upon request. If you have any questions, please contact
the local organizer Diane
Maclagan.
Directions to Stanford
- WARNING: (Added late 4/30 - please mention this to anyone
else going that you see Saturday am). University Ave will be
blocked off for a parade Saturday morning. Updated directions
from the Dumbarton bridge: After passing through East Palo Alto,
get on 101 South, and immediately off at Embarcadero. Take
Embarcadero about two or three miles until you are on campus.
Take the first right (Arboretum) and then left at the lights to
get onto Palm Drive.
- To get to Stanford by car, you can
view the Stanford
directions. These directions send you to the visitor
information center. Alternatively, coming from 101 take
University Avenue west. This will go under an underpass at the
train station and put you on Palm Drive - continue until the
end, and park at the Oval. The math department is then the
rightmost of the buildings in front of you. Coming from the
Dumbarton bridge, take the University Avenue exit (this is a
left-hand exit) and proceed as above. Coming from 280, take the
Sand Hill road exit toward Stanford. Turn right onto Junipero
Serra, and then left onto Campus Drive West. Follow this round
until it intersects with Palm Drive, then turn right and proceed
as above.
- It doesn't look like Caltrain will be running on the
weekends by May 1, so the choices for public transport (from
San Francisco or the East Bay) are to take BART to either San
Francisco or Millbrae, and then take the RRX bus to Palo Alto.
From the Palo Alto train/bus station, follow the signs toward
Stanford. This will put you on Palm Drive. Walk along Palm
Drive for about twenty minutes to arrive at the math
department. The Dumbarton express does not run on Saturdays.
- A map of the campus showing the math department is
available here.
Information about previous BAD Math Days is available
here.
The BADMath Committee: