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Dagstuhl

Oktavie-Allee, Wadern, Germany
Landmark & Historical Place

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Dagstuhl is a computer science research center in Germany, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland.LocationFollowing the model of the mathematical center at Oberwolfach, the center is installed in a very remote and relaxed location in the countryside. The Leibniz Center is located in a historic country house, Schloss Dagstuhl (Dagstuhl Castle), together with modern purpose-built buildings connected by an enclosed footbridge.The ruins of the 13th-century Dagstuhl Castle are nearby, a short walk up a hill from the Schloss.CenterThe Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik was established at Dagstuhl in 1990. The center is managed as a non-profit organization, and financed by national funds. It receives scientific support by a variety of German and foreign research institutions. Until April 2008 the name of the center was: International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science . The center was founded by Reinhard Wilhelm, who continued as its director until May 2014, when Raimund Seidel became the director.LibraryDagstuhl's computer science library has over 50,000 books and other media, among them a full set of Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and electronic access to many computer science journals.

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