Combinatorics and related conferences

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From January 2005, there is a list of past conferences available, to which conference listings from this page will be moved. More details about past British Combinatorial Conferences can be found on the BCC archives.

Please email me (p.j.cameron at qmul.ac.uk) with details of conferences in combinatorics and related areas for inclusion here.

Needless to say, there is no guarantee of the accuracy of this information and no control over the content of the web pages listed!

Conferences organised or sponsored by the BCC

• London Combinatorics Colloquium, London, England, UK, 21-22 May 2008: Web page
• Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference, Warwick, England, UK, 21-23 July 2008: Web page
• 22nd British Combinatorial Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, UK, 5-10 July 2009: Web page

Main conference list

• January - May 2008
  • Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics (MSRI program), Berkeley, CA, USA, January - May 2008: Web page. Workshops include (see individual entries for details):
    • Introductory workshop, 28 January - 1 February 2008
    • Homological methods in representation theory, 3-7 March 2008
    • Lie Theory, 10-14 March 2008

• January - July 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics (Newton Institute programme), Cambridge, England, UK, 14 January - 4 July 2008: Web page. Workshops (all in Cambridge):
    • Introductory cross-disciplinary workshop, 14-18 January 2008
    • Zeros of graph polynomials, 21-25 January 2008
    • Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and generalisations, 25-28 March 2008
    • Combinatorial identities and applications, 7-11 April 2008
    • Quantum field theory and statistical mechanics in enumeration, 21-25 April 2008
    • Combinatorial and probabilistic inequalities, 23-27 June 2008
    See individual workshop entries for links.

• May 2008
  • Interdisciplinary research in logic, group theory and theoretical computer science, New York, NY, USA, 2 May 2008: Web page
  • New directions in algorithms, combinatorics and optimization (for the 65th birthday of William T. Trotter), Atlanta, GA, USA, 5-9 May 2008: Web page
  • Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Day, Ottawa, Canada, 9-10 May 2008: Web page
  • Ottawa-Carleton Graph Theory Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, 11-13 May 2008: Web page
  • ROGICS'08 (International Conference on Relations, Orders and Graphs: Interaction with Computer Science), Mahdia, Tunisia, 12-15 May 2008: Web page
  • Groups in Galway, Galway, Ireland, 16-17 May 2008: Web page
  • Topological and geometric graph theory (TGGT 2008), Paris, France, 19-23 May 2008: Web page
  • London Combinatorics Conference, London, England, UK, 21-22 May 2008: Web page
  • International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008), Sanya, Hainan, China, 28-30 May 2008: Web page
  • Festive Combinatorics (in honor of Anders Björner's 60th birthday), Stockholm, Sweden, 28-30 May 2008: Web page
  • 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, Sanya, Hainan, China, 28-30 May 2008: Web page

• June 2008
  • Hash functions in cryptology: theory and practice, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2-6 June 2008: Web page
  • 23rd Math/Chem/Comp conference, Verbania, Italy, 10-13 June 2008 (and 4th IAMC meeting, 9 June 2008): Web page
  • HPOPT 2008: Algebraic structure in semidefinite programming, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 11-13 June 2008: Web page
  • SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics (DM08), Burlington, VT, USA, 16-19 June 2008: Web page
  • ATINER conference, Athens, Greece, 16-19 June 2008: Web page
  • Nordstat2008 (22nd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics), Vilnius, Lithuania, 16-19 June 2008: Web page
  • Math/Chem/Comp course, 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 16-21 June 2008: Web page
  • Groups and topological groups, Leipzig, Germany, 20-21 June 2008: Web page
  • Combinatorics 2008, Costermano, Italy, 22-28 June 2008: Web page
  • Profinite and asymptotic group theory, Oberwolfach, Germany, 22-28 June 2008
  • 20th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2008), Valparaiso, Chile, 23-27 June 2008: Web page
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Combinatorial and probabilistic inequalities, Cambridge, England, UK, 23-27 June 2008: Web page
  • Seventh Iberoamerican Conference on Topology and its Applications, Valencia, Spain, 25-28 June 2008: Web page
  • 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, USA, 29 June - 2 July 2008: Web page
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Algebraic geometry, Leiden, Netherlands, 30 June - 4 July 2008: Web page

• July-August 2008
  • Design of Experiments (Newton Institute programme), Cambridge, England, UK, 21 July - 15 August 2008: Web page. Workshop (see individual entry for details):
    • Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA2008), Cambridge, England, UK, 11-15 August 2008

• July 2008
  • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TFMCS-08), Orlando, FL, USA, 7-10 July 2008: Web page
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Modules and representation theory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-12 July 2008: Web page
  • Algebraic Aspects of Association Schemes and Scheme Rings, Regina, Canada, 8-11 July 2008: Web page
  • Classification of finite p-groups by coclass and beyond, Cambridge, England, UK, 11 July 2008
  • 3rd Research Workshop on Flexible Network Design, Coventry, England, UK, 13-16 July 2008: Web page
  • 5th European Congress of Mathematics (5ECM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-18 July 2008: Web page. Mini-symposia include
    • Algebra in optimization: Web page
    • Combinatorics of hard problems
    • Discrete structures in geometry and topology: Web page
    • Graphs and matroids: Web page
    • Mathematics of cryptology
    • Mathematical logic (E W Beth centenary): Web page
    • Representation theoretical methods and quantization: Web page
    Satellite conferences (see individual listings):
    • Algebraic geometry, Leiden, Netherlands, 30 June - 4 July 2008
    • Modules and representation theory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-12 July 2008
    • Bridges: Mathematics, music, art, architecture, culture, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 24-28 July 2008
  • Industrial conference on data mining, Leipzig, Germany, 16-18 July 2008: Web page
  • International symposium on symbolic and algebraic computation (ISSAC2008), Hagenberg, Austria, 20-23 July 2008: Web page
  • Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference, Warwick, England, UK, 21-23 July 2008: Web page
  • First De Brún Workshop on Computational Algebra, Galway, Ireland, 21 July - 1 August 2008: Web page
  • DATICS 2008 (Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 22-24 July 2008: Web page (deadline for submission 31 March 2008)
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Bridges: Mathematics, music, art, architecture, culture, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 24-28 July 2008: Web page

• August 2008
  • Computational Group Theory and Cohomology, Grantham, England, UK, 4-8 August 2008: Web page
  • Building Bridges (for the 60th birthday of Laci Lovász), Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 August 2008: Web page
  • BLAST (Boolean algebras, Lattices, Algebraic logic, universal algebra, Set theory, set-theoretic Topology and point-free topology), Denver, CO, USA, 6-10 August 2008: Web page
  • Fete of Combinatorics and Computer Science, Keszthely, Hungary, 11-15 August 2008: Web page
  • Design of Experiments: Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA2008), Cambridge, England, UK, 11-15 August 2008: Web page
  • Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 4, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands, 17-22 August 2008: Web page
  • DTVCS 2008 (Design, Testing and Formal Verification Techniques for Integrated Circuits and Systems), Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, 18-20 August 2008: special session at CS 2008, Web page

• September 2008
  • X Spanish meeting on cryptology and information theory, Salamanca, Spain, 2-5 September 2008: Web page
  • Discrete geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany, 21-27 September 2008

• November 2008
  • Combinatorial optimization, Oberwolfach, Germany, 9-15 November 2008

• December 2008
  • Workshop on spectral graph theory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1-4 December 2008: Web page
  • 4th international conference on combinatorial mathematics and combinatorial computing (4-ICC), Auckland, New Zealand, 15-19 December 2008: Web page

• January 2009
  • Group Theory, Combinatorics & Computation (in honour of Professor Cheryl E. Praeger's 60th Birthday), Perth, WA, Australia, 5-16 January 2009: Web page

• June 2009
  • Character Theory of Finite Groups (in honour of Marty Isaacs), Valencia, Spain, 3-5 June 2009: Web page

• July 2009
  • 22nd British Combinatorial Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, UK, 5-10 July 2009: Web page

• August 2009
  • Groups St Andrews in Bath, Bath, England, UK, 1-15 August 2009: Web page

Institutes

• Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
• American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, USA
• Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada
• Centra de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
• Centre International de Rencontres Mathétiques, Luminy, France
• Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, PQ, Canada
• DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science), Piscataway, NJ, USA
• EIDMA (Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Applications), Eindhoven/Twente/Delft, The Netherlands
• Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria
• Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
• IMI (IISc Mathematics Initiative), Bangalore, India
• Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
• Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore
• International Centre for the Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, UK
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany
• Max Planck Institut Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany
• New Zealand Institute of Mathematics & its Applications, Auckland, New Zealand
• Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conference series archives

• Lists from this page
• British Combinatorial Conferences
• Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory (BEST)
• Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG)
• Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC)
• Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS)
• Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar (MAMLS)
• MIdwest GrapH TheorY (MIGHTY)
• Set Theory and its Neighbours (STN)

Other sources of information

• Conference-Service.com listings:
  • Mathematics index
  • Graph Theory and Combinatorics
• MASCOTTE's Conference & Seminar Homepage (discrete mathematics and related areas)
• Group Pub Forum (group theory and related areas; now somewhat out of date)
• The Combinatorics Net
• Graph Theory White Pages (now very out of date)
• American Mathematical Society's Mathematics Calendar
• SIAM Activity Group in Discrete Mathematics
• Douglas West's Links to Combinatorial Conferences
• Conferences of Interest for Complexity People by ECCC (now extremely out of date)
• CODES, Prochaines conférences (with deadlines!)

Peter Cameron
p.j.cameron at qmul.ac.uk
27 March 2008

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