| ALCCAL_2000 Algebraic Combinatorics and Computer Algebra Summer School. Varna, Bulgaria; 3--14 September 2000. |
| Algebraic_Combinatorics_and_Applications Gößweinstein, Germany; 12--19 September 1999. |
| ANALCO04 The First Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics. Held in conjunction with ALENEX04 and SODA04. New Orleans, LA, USA; 10 January 2004. |
| Asymptotic_Combinatorics_with_Applications_to_Mathematical_Physics Summer school surveying recent progress in the asymptotic theory of Young tableaux and random matrices from the point of view of combinatorics, representation theory, and the theory of integrable syst |
| AWOCA_2002 The Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, hosted by the University of Queensland. Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia; 7-10 July 2002. |
| BCC16 Sixteenth British Combinatorial Conference. Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK; 7--11 July 1997. Abstracts, problem lists. |
| BCC18 18th British Combinatorial Conference. University of Sussex in Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, UK; July 1-6, 2001. |
| BCC19 The 19th British Combinatorial Conference. Bangor, Wales, UK; 29 June -- 4 July 2003. |
| BCC2005 20th British Combinatorial Conference. Durham, UK; 10--15 July 2005. |
| BCC_-_Past_Conferences This page provides information about each of the BCC series of conferences. |
| Big_Sky_Conference_on_Discrete_Mathematics University of Montana, Missoula, MT, September 7-9, 2000. |
| Brazilian_Symposium_on_Graphs,Algorithms_and_Combinatorics Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil; 17--19 March 2001. |
| CAAN_04 Workshop on Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking. Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Alberta, Canada; 5--7 August 2004. |
| Classical_Combinatorics In honor of Dominique Foata's 65th birthday. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 7--9 July 2000. |
| COCOON_2004 Tenth International Computing and Combinatorics Conference. Jeju Island, Korea; 17--20 August 2004. |
| Coding,_Cryptography_and_Combinatorics Huang Shan City, China; 23--28 June 2003. |
| Colloquium_on_Combinatorics Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany; 12--13 November 2004. |
| Colloquium_on_Combinatorics_2001 Technical University Braunschweig, Germany; 16--17 November 2001. On-line registration. |
| Combinatorial_Aspects_of_Hyperplane_Arrangements MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA; 1--5 November 2004. |
| Combinatorial_Optimization_and_Integer_Programming Columbia University; 28 November 2001. |
| Combinatorial_Optimization_Day_1995 Applications of Semidefinite Programming in Combinatorial Optimization. Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 22 April 1995. |
| Combinatorial_Potlatch University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA; 16 February 2002. |
| Combinatorial_Structure_of_Intractable_Problems 2nd COMBSTRU Workshop. Venice, Italy; 20--22 September 2004. |
| Combinatorics_\'04 Capomulini, Catania, Sicily, Italy; 12--18 September 2004. |
| Combinatorics_and_Related_Conferences_in_2000 Maintained by the British Combinatorial Committee. |
| Combinatorics_and_Set_Theory_2 (Set theory and its Neighbours 11). London, UK; 4 April 2002. |
| Combinatorics_in_Cambridge Celebrating the 60th birthday of Béla Bollobás. University of Cambridge, UK; 4--7 August 2003. |
| Computation,_Combinatorics_and_Probability Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK; August -- December 2002. |
| CoSSaC_2001_-_Combinatorics_of_Searching,_Sorting_and_Coding Ischia Island, Italy; 7-9 September 2001. |
| CPM_2002 The Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching. Fukuoka, Japan; 3--5 July 2002. |
| Cycles_and_Colourings 13th Workshop. Tatranská Štrba, High Tatras, Slovakia; 5--10 September 2004. |
| Design_in_Combinatorics_and_Statistics An LMS/EPSRC Short Course. Queen Mary College, University of London, UK; 9--13 September 2002. |
| Design_Theory__Resolvability_and_Parallelisms PIMS at Simon Fraser University, BC; May 16-18, 2001. |
| Designs,_Codes,_Cryptography_and_Graph_Theory_(DCCG)_2001 Second Lethbridge Workshop on Designs, Codes, Cryptography and Graph Theory: a combination of instructional lectures and research sessions. Lethbridge, Alberta; July 9-14, 2001. |
| Discrete_Mathematics_and_Industrial_Applications Capri, Italy; 7--10 June 2001. |
| Discrete_Mathematics_and_its_Applications Instructional Workshop and Symposium on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Professor Raj Chandra Bose. Kolkata, India; 15--19 and 20--23 December 2002. |
| ECCO_2002 XV-th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimisation. Lugano, Switzerland; 30 May -- 1 June 2002. |
| EUROCOMB_2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Applications. Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany; 5--9 September 2005. |
| Euroconference_on_Combinatorics,_Graph_Theory_and_Applications_(COMB01) The Conference concentrates mainly on four areas: Algebraic, Algorithmic, geometric and probabilistic combinatorics, including their applications to other areas of mathematics, computer science and en |
| Extremal_Combinatorics_II DIMACS/DIMATIA/Rényi Working Group. DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 18--20 October 2004. |
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Dating skeletal material with DNA may not be as acurate as thought
Ancient DNA in skeletons has a tendency to show damage in a particular region, resulting in misleading genetic data and mistaken conclusions about the origin of the skeleton, British scientists said. A group of researchers at the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre of the University of Oxford, in Britain, made the finding while studying Viking specimens. They found that about half of the specimens had DNA that suggested they were of Middle Eastern origin. But more detailed analysis revealed that many of the genetic sequences in the double helix molecule, which carries the genetic information of every individual, were damaged at a key base that separates European sequences from Middle Eastern genetic types - damage which made the skeletons appear to have originated in the Levant.The results are published in the February 2003 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.Damage events appear to be concentrated in specific 'hotspots', indicating that a high proportion of DNA molecules can be modified at the same point. These hotspots appear to be in positions that also differ between different human groups. In other words, the DNA damage discovered affects the same genetic positions as evolutionary change. "Now that this phenomenon has been recognised, it is possible to survey the ancient sequences for damage more accurately, and determine the correct original genetic type - open the way for more reliable future studies," said Professor Alan Cooper, director of the centre. Cooper has hopes the finding may have implications for future research. "It also appears that we can use damage cause after death to examine how DNA damage occurs during life - a completely unanticipated, and somewhat ironic result," he said. "Potentially this allows us to get uniquely separate views of the two major evolutionary processes, mutation and selection."
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