CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
             THEMATIC SCHOOL
             OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION
 
             March 12-17, 2006
 	    Les Houches Physics School, France
 
 The school is organized by the European network VISIONTRAIN,
 http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/ . The scientific program involves both
 tutorial talks and research talks focusing on optimization and
 mathematical programming in connection with current research topics in
 Computer Vision and Machine Learning. 
 
 INVITED SPEAKERS:
 	Martin Wainwright, Univ of California at Berkeley
 
 	Jean-François Aujol, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
 
 For details of the program, please see:
 http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/?page=school1	
 
 Les Houches is a very pleasant winter resort and is conveniently reached
 by ground transportation from the Geneva international airport (see
 http://www.leshouches.com/uk/index.html ). 
 
 Registration includes full accommodation and should be done
 before the
 *** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 31 January 2006 ***
 
 Scientific committee:
 	   Radu Horaud, INRIA Rhones-Alpes, France
 	   Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
 	   Emmanuel Prados, UCLA, USA
 	   Christoph Schnoerr, Univ. Mannheim, Germany