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color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi, <br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Welcome to the Institute and the
school of Mathematics!<br>
<br>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This message is sent
to everyone who will be somehow affiliated with the <br>
CSDM (computer science and discrete math) program this
year. This list is in <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/11-12/members">http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/12-13/members</a>
<br>
and will probably grow.<br>
Below is some information you will find useful during your
stay here. These is a special part for the IAS postdocs
among you.<br>
<br>
Please feel free to contact me or Ran Raz</span></font><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> (who will be at the Institute for
term I),<st1:personname w:st="on"></st1:personname> if you
need help with anything at all, and certainly whenever you
want to talk about research. </span></font><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">We will shortly send e-mails about
the coming seminar season.</span></font><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
(Apropos e-mail. If you don't use regularly your ias.edu
address, please forward it to the one you do use, as many
IAS emails will be sent there.)<br>
<br>
Institute staff is extremely helpful - assistants, computing
staff, library and housing. Don't be shy about asking for
something. <br>
<br>
The CSDM website, <a href="http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm">www.math.ias.edu/csdm</a>
has lots of useful information <br>
especially on our seminars, seminars at neighboring
institutions and how to <br>
join their mailing lists, past members, activities and
papers.<br>
Any suggestions about the organization of this website are
welcome. The website also gives the schedule of our own
seminars on Monday and Tuesday of each week. For the
seminar schedule see <a
href="http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/seminars">http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/seminars</a>.
<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Those of you supported by the
school are partially supported by one of these two NSF
grants below. We will send periodic reminders to acknowledge
them on the papers you write while here. Our group received
two large NSF grants in 2008. The first grant is for a
"Center on Intractability" with <br>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Princeton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, Rutgers and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New York</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
All members (you are all included) will meet every month
for a day of tutorials, surveys, brainstorming and open
problems. More info is on the center's website <a
href="http://intractability.princeton.edu/">http://intractability.princeton.edu/</a>
<br>
The second grant is related to pseudorandomness and awarded
to the school - some info about it is here <a
href="http://www.math.ias.edu/Pseudo">http://www.math.ias.edu/Pseudo</a>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
Library: we have built a decent collection of CS and
combinatorics <br>
books, but want to expand it. Anything you'd like there or
you feel is missing, just request from the librarian, Momota
Ganguli or her assistant, Judy Wilson-Smith, (or me) and
they will purchase it. <br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Food: I recommend our dining hall
(best restaurant in <st1:place w:st="on">Princeton</st1:place>)
and going to tea/coffee each weekday from 3-4 p.m. in the
Fuld Hall common room. </span></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
*For those of you who are IAS postdocs this year: *<br>
<br>
1) Travel must be approved in advance of planning your trip
by a faculty member (I am your best shot). Travel
authorization forms are available from Marilyn Magder in
Simonyi-116. Shortly after your arrival you will receive a
letter from Mary Jane Hayes, the School's administrative
officer, with reimbursement guidelines. In order to be
reimbursed, you must follow the guidelines. The Institute
is very particular about residency. It allows 1 week of <br>
travel per term, but we are flexible if you have conferences
and/or job<br>
interviews. Please try to plan collaborations requiring
travel between terms and after the end of April. <br>
<br>
2) We hope to see all of you at the Monday and Tuesday
seminars unless you are away from the Institute. On Mondays
we typically have outside speakers, and on Tuesdays we
usually teach each other at a moderate pace (or sometimes
outsiders teach us). The seminar list is here <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/seminars">http://www.math.ias.edu/csdm/seminars</a><br>
<br>
3) Beginning September 24, there will be a series of short
postdoc presentations in the School's seminar room on the
entry-level floor of Simonyi Hall. It would be good to try
to attend as many of these as possible. The School has the
best math postdocs anywhere, and you'll get an idea of what
they do. For your own presentations, feel free to consult
us if you have questions. <br>
<br>
Have a fun and productive year! <br>
<br>
Avi <br>
<br>
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