Dagstuhl is a computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 research center in Germany

Germany

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, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern

Wadern

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, Merzig-Wadern

Merzig-Wadern

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, Saarland

Saarland

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Location

Following the model of the mathematical center at Oberwolfach

Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach

The Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach in Oberwolfach, Germany, was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss in 1944...

, the center is installed in a somewhat remote and relaxed location in the countryside.
The Leibniz Center is located in a historic country house, Schloss Dagstuhl (Dagstuhl Castle), together with modern purpose-built buildings connected by an enclosed footbridge.

The ruins of the 13th-century Dagstuhl Castle

Dagstuhl Castle

Dagstuhl Castle is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany...

 are nearby, a short walk up a hill from the Schloss.

Center

The Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI, Leibniz Center for Informatics) was established at Dagstuhl in 1990. The center is managed as a non-profit organization, and financed by national funds. It receives scientific support by a variety of German and foreign research institutions. Until April 2008 the name of the center was: International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (German: Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik (IBFI)). The center was founded by Reinhard Wilhelm

Reinhard Wilhelm

- Life and work :Wilhelm was born in Deutmecke, Westphalia. He studied math, physics and mathematical logic at University of Münster and computer science at Technical University Munich and Stanford University. He finished his PhD at TU Munich in 1977...

, who remains its director.

Library

Dagstuhl's computer science library has over 50,000 books and other media, among them a full set of Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science is a series of computer science books that has been published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973....

 (LNCS) series and electronic access to many computer science journals.

Seminar series

Dagstuhl supports computer science by organizing high ranked seminars on hot topics in informatics. The Dagstuhl seminars which are established after review and approval by the Scientific Directorate bring together personally invited scientists from academia and industry from all over the world to discuss their newest ideas and problems. As part of the Dagstuhl seminars, the center hosts summer schools, group retreats, and other scientific conferences, all discussing informatics. Every year about 3,500 scientists stay in Dagstuhl for about 100 conferences and workshops. The number of participants is limited to enable discussion and by the available housing capacity. The stay is full-board; participants are accommodated in the original house or in the modern annex, and have all their meals at the center. Seminars are usually held for a weekly period: participants arrive on Sunday evening and depart on Friday evening or Saturday morning. One or sometimes two seminars are held simultaneously with other small meetings.

Publications

As well as publishing proceedings from its own seminars, the Leibniz Center publishes the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, a series of open access

Open access

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 conference proceedings from computer science conferences worldwide, including the Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science held annually in Germany and France and the Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science held annually in south Asia.

External links

• Official website
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