Schloß Dagstuhl's older buildings

Dagstuhl is a computer science meeting facility near the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern county, Saarland, Germany. It is located in a historic country house Schloss Dagstuhl (Dagstuhl Castle), together with modern purpose-built buildings connected by an enclosed footbridge. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Wadern is the northernmost town of the German federal state Saarland, which is situated in the southwest of Germany. ... Merzig-Wadern is a Kreis (district) in the northeast of the Saarland, Germany. ... Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DEC Capital Saarbrücken Minister-President Peter Müller (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  2,569 km² (992 sq mi) Population 1,044,000 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 406 /km... A country house is a large dwelling, such as a mansion, located on a country estate. ...

The Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik (IBFI, International Meeting and Research Center for Computer Science) was established at the Schloss in 1990. The center is managed as a non-profit organization, and is sponsored by a variety of German and foreign research institutions. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

Following the model of the mathematical center at Oberwolfach, the center is installed in a somewhat remote and relaxed location in the countryside. The number of participants is limited, if only 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 castle. The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach is a leading mathematical research intitute in Oberwolfach Germany. ...

Seminars are usually held for a weekly period: participants arrive on Sunday evening and depart on Friday evening or Saturday morning. One, sometimes two seminars, are held simultaneously.

IFBI has an excellent computer science library with a full set of Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and electronic access to many computer science journals. The Springer-Verlag (pronounced SHPRING er FAIR lahk) was a worldwide publishing company base in Germany. ... Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is an important computer science series published by Springer-Verlag. ...

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Coordinates: 49°31′49″N, 6°53′57″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...