Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B41pref (1998), 1 p.

Jacques Désarménien

Préface

The 41st session was organized by the university of Marne La Vallée, and took place at the Domaine Saint-Jacques, Saint-Nabor, Ottrott, France, from Sunday, March 15, 1998 to Wednesday March 18, 1998.

The list of participants was the following:

• Augsburg: Hachenberger D.,
• Bayreuth: Kerber A., Kohnert A.,
• Caen: Leclerc B., Leidwanger S.,
• Erlangen: Koenig R., Meyn H., Strehl V.,
• Graz: Fripertinger H.,
• Heidelberg: Gropp H.,
• Essen: Fleischmann. P.,
• Linz: Paule P.,
• Marne La Vallee: Berstel J., Desarmenien J., Gauthier B., Perrin D., Picon P.-A., Lapointe L., Lascoux A., Morse J., Thibon J.-Y., Toumazet F., Ung B.-C.-V.,
• Nancy: Giorgetti A.,
• Poitiers: Van Leeuwen M.,
• Strasbourg: Belaga E., Foata D., Han G., Jouanolou J.-P., Littelmann P.,
• Valenciennes: Gaudier H.,

The main speakers of this session were:

• Peter Paule from Linz, "Hypergeometric sums and multisums: tuning the WZ engine";
• Peter Littelmann from Strasbourg, "Crystals, paths and polytopes".