The school aims to develop research on discrete mathematics in West Africa, and more generally on topics at the interface between mathematics and computer science.
It is a followup of the thematic semester "Mathematics and computer science: towards new interactions" that was organised at CIRM (Marseille) in 2010, and is supported by the African network of geometry and algebra applied to development (RAGAAD) and by the cooperation agreement between Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille) and Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso.
The proposed lectures cover various topics that are strongly linked with each other: combinatorics on words, symbolic dynamics, tilings and cellular automata, graphs. Additionally, the school includes an initiation to the free mathematical software Sage, and to its combinatorics library Sage-Combinat.