The Ramanujan Mathematical Society was founded in 1985 with the ostensible purpose of promoting mathematics at all levels. During the last span of 20 years, RMS has witnessed a phenomenal growth. It has been publishing the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society since 1986. It also publishes the Mathematics Newsletter, a quarterly, that caters to the needs of the students and staff of colleges and other institutions in India. Recently, the Society has launched the publication of a Lecture Notes Series with financial support from the Government of India. It also publishes 'Little Mathematical Treasures', a series of books aimed to cater to the needs of high school and college students.

To mark its completion of 10 years, the Society organized in 1996 an International conference in Discrete Mathematics and Number Theory at Tiruchirapalli in India. The proceedings of the Discrete Mathematics part was published as a special number of the journal: DISCRETE MATHEMATICS (Vol. 206, 1999) and the Number Theory part was published in the CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS Series (# 210) of the American Mathematical Society.

To mark its 20 year completion, RMS now proposes to organize several conferences and one of them is the present international conference. This conference is being organized in association with the departments of Mathematics (www.math.iisc.ernet.in) and Computer Science and Automation (www.csa.iisc.ernet.in) of IISc.

The aim of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in discrete mathematics and thereby provide an opportunity to the vast body of students and young research scholars and teachers working in India in discrete mathematics and computer science to listen to the lectures and interact with them. In addition, it is expected that the Proceedings of the conference containing lectures of several leading mathematicians to serve as a good source book for researchers in several areas of discrete mathematics and applications.

The conference will consist of plenary talks, invited lectures, mini-symposia and poster sessions, encompassing all areas of discrete mathematics and its applications.

A mini-symposium will involve three speakers, each delivering a talk for 45 minutes, on a single chosen theme.

Conference Proceedings:

The conference proceedings will contain all the plenary, invited and mini-symposia talks. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes Series of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society.

The proceedings will be distributed to all the participants along with the other conference materials on the first day of the conference.
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