Lednice-Valtice Area is one of the Czech UNESCO heritage sites. Valtice is a beautiful baroque chateau from the 17th century. More information about the chateau and the area can be found on zamky-hrady.cz and on Wikipedia.
The workshop hotel is located directly in the left wing of the chateau. A guided tour of the chateau interiors and historical expositions is planned.
The area is well-known as a centre of vineculture in south Moravia. The tradition of winegrowing thrieves in its many vineyards, wine cellars and collections. One of the wine cellars is located directly at the hotel.
| Monday | Arrival | |
|---|---|---|
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 | Welcome party | |
| Tuesday | 10:00-12:00 | D. Thilikos: "Graph Searching Tutorial, Part I", intended for PhD students and newcomers to the topic |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-16:00 | D. Thilikos: "Graph Searching Tutorial, Part II" | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday | 9:00-10:00 | P. Pralat: "Chasing robbers on random graphs: The zigzag theorem" |
| 10:00-11:00 | Open prolems | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:30 | S. Ordyniak: "Complexity and Monotonicity of Domination Search Games" | |
| 15:00-17:00 | Discussions | |
| 17:00 | Progress report | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Thursday | 9:00-9:30 | I. Adler: "Games for width parameters and monotonicity" |
| 10:00-11:00 | Discussions | |
| 11:00 | Progress report | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 15:00 | Excursion to Lednice | |
| 19:00 | Dinner | |
| Friday | 9:00 | F. Mazoit: "Monotonicity in graph searching games" |
| 10:00-11:00 | Discussions | |
| 11:00 | Final report | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
Dimitrios M. Thilikos: Graph Searching Tutorial (7MB PDF presentation). Also see the exercises (PDF).
Pawel Pralat: Chasing robbers on random graphs: The zigzag theorem (1MB PDF presentation).
Pawel Pralat: Cleaning random d-regular graphs with brushes and Brooms (2MB PDF presentation).
Transcript (PDF) of the problems (by N. Nisse) and scanned notes from the first sessions: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
Valtice is a small town located 50 km south of Brno, 100 km from Bratislava (Slovakia), 100 km from Vienna (Austria) and 200 km from Prague, near the borders with Austria and Slovakia.
The nearest bigger city Břeclav is just 10 km east of Valtice with bus and train connections approx. once an hour. Břeclav is reachable by direct trains from Brno, Bratislava, Vien and Prague (direct or via Brno). The on-line timetables of Czech Railways are available at jizdnirady.idnes.cz/ (also English version). For most of the trains (incl. all local trains) it is best to buy the tickets in the station. Some trains (i.e. EC, SC) may require a seat reservation.
If you plan to come by train, take a train to Břeclav and there take a local train to Valtice (direction Znojmo), take off at Valtice-mesto station and from there walk cca 1km to the city center and the chateau.
The chateau has GPS coordinates 48°44'23.248"N, 16°45'22.315"E. Do not confuse the Valtice chateau with tha chateau Belveder Valtice, which is off city center, near the train station.
You can find basic information about visiting Czech Republic on the site www.czechtourism.com.
Accommodation is provided directly in the hotel Hubertus, the price for one night is approximately 40 EUR. However, we will be able to help the participants with local expenses.
The hotel provides free wireless Internet.
