The Fifth Workshop Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces Tále, Low Tatras, Slovakia June, 28th - July 3rd 2009

GEMS'09

the workshop organised by

Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Pavol Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia and Slovak Mathematical Society

The workshop is the fifth in the series of Slovak GEMS workshops. The previous four were held in 1994 (Donovaly), 1997 (Banská Bystrica), 2001 (Bratislava) and 2005 (Stará Lesná). For about fifteen years, the map-theoretic community has been meeting every year somewhere on Earth. Timings and places have been stabilized, with a period of 4 years, on Slovenia (in the years congruent to 3 mod 4), New Zealand (0 mod 4), Slovakia (1 mod 4), and some other places such as Arizona or Portugal (2 mod 4).

The workshop should bring together people interested in various aspects of graphs embedded on surfaces. The programme will consist of lectures by invited speakers and short talks by participants. Contributed talks should be related to one or more of the following topics:

• Embeddings of graphs in surfaces
• Symmetrical embeddings, regular maps
• Group actions on graphs
• Combinatorial properties of embedded graphs
• Representativity and graph minors
• Convex polytopes and polytopal graphs
• Dessins d'enfants
• Map enumeration

Invited speakers:

• Marston Conder, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Gareth A. Jones, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
• Mikhail Klin, Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel
• C. H. Li, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• Dragan Marušič, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
• Alexander Mednykh, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
• Jűrgen Wolfart, Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

The venue for the 2009 GEMS workshop will be Hotel Stupka, Tále, Slovakia, a tourist resort in the Low Tatra mountains, nearby Banská Bystrica. The Low Tatras are the second highest mountain range in Slovakia, situated in the middle of the country. The mountains offer numerous hiking opportunities and views of astounding beauty. The Tale resort offers lots of services, including one of the best golf courses in the country. In the neighbourhood, one can find other attractions such as caves, old-time railway, open-air museum of forrestry, etc.

Organising comitee:

• Roman Nedela, Matej Bel University
• Stanislav Jendroľ, Pavol Šafárik University
• Jozef Širáň, Slovak University of Technology
• Martin Škoviera, Comenius University

The deadline for submitting the final registration data and the abstracts submission is April 30th, 2009.

The second announcement will be distributed to the conference participants on about May 15th, 2009.

If you have any questions, please contact us via the conference e-mail, where you can direct a preliminary registration as well.