Conferences and Meetings on Graph Theory and Combinatorics

ICERM

Research in combinatorial algebraic geometry utilizes combinatorial techniques to answer questions about geometry. Typical examples include predictions about singularities, construction of degenerations, and computation of geometric invariants such as Gromov-Witten invariants, Euler characteristics, the number of points in intersections, multiplicities, genera, and many more. The study of positivity properties of geometric invariants is one of the driving forces behind the interplay between geometry and combinatorics. Flag manifolds and Schubert calculus are particularly rich sources of invariants with positivity properties.

Phone: [4018635030];     Email: info@icerm.brown.edu

ICERM

This workshop will focus on the development of software to facilitate research in combinatorial algebraic geometry, based on the SAGE Mathematical Software System and the OSCAR Computer Algebra System. Special attention will be given to efficient computations with multi-variate polynomials, which is a critical part of many algorithms in combinatorial algebraic geometry. Aside from development of software, the workshop will feature a series of talks about polynomial computations, as well as introductory lectures about Sage and Oscar.

Email: info@icerm.brown.edu

Algebra,    Geometry and Topology

REACT is an online workshop aimed at bringing together PhD students in the areas of combinatorics, commutative algebra, applied algebraic geometry and neighbouring subjects. The structure of REACT is modeled after PRAGMATIC, a summer school which took place in Catania, Italy for many years in a row.

Algebra,    Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers

REACT (Research Encounters in Algebraic and Combinatorial Topics) is an online workshop for graduate students that will take place February 15 - March 5, 2021 on Zoom. The goals of this workshop are: 1) To bring students together and help them build a professional network despite the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) To provide a collaborative research experience for students via accessible open problems in combinatorics and algebra. The first week (February 15-19) will consist of three courses, where speakers will introduce open problems in their fields. The courses are: 1) Matthias Beck (SFSU/FU Berlin), "Classifying combinatorial polynomials" 2) Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke (Universität Osnabrück) and Uwe Nagel (Kentucky), "Symmetries in algebra and combinatorics in finite and infinite settings" 3) Mateusz Michałek (Universität Konstanz), "Applications of enumerative algebraic geometry: complete quadrics in statistics." During the second and third weeks, students will work on the problems in small groups. There will also be online social activities. Please see the REACT website https://sites.google.com/view/react-2021 for course abstracts and more details.

combinatorics, commutative algebra, algebraic statistics, algebraic geometry, online, graduate students, workshop

Algebra,    Geometry and Topology

The Fields Institute

This workshop will showcase recent advances in combinatorial and geometric rigidity theory. Particular topics of interest include d-dimensional rigidity, global and universal rigidity, symmetry and periodicity, rigidity of alternate constraint systems and applications..

Algebra,    Geometry and Topology

Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA

In recent years, deep learning has significantly improved the fields of computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. Beyond these traditional fields, deep learning has been expended to quantum chemistry, physics, neuroscience, and more recently to combinatorial optimization (CO). Well-known CO problems are Travelling Salesman Problem, assignment problems, routing, planning, Bayesian search, and scheduling. CO is basically used every day in finance and revenue management, transportation, manufacturing, supply chain, public policy, hardware design, computing and information technology. The workshop will bring together experts in mathematics (optimization, graph theory, sparsity, combinatorics, statistics), CO (assignment problems, routing, planning, Bayesian search, scheduling), machine learning (deep learning, supervised, self-supervised and reinforcement learning) and specific applicative domains (e.g. finance, transportation, hardware design, computing and information technology) to establish the current state of these emerging techniques and discuss the next directions. Besides, such generalization of deep learning techniques to CO problems will also push forward the mathematical analysis of the properties of these learning systems like generalization and transfer, stochastic optimization and dynamic predictivity that make the success of these techniques.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Operational research

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

ICERM

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together a diverse group of researchers working on combinatorial and geometric aspects related to spaces with symmetries. The workshop will cover problems arising from various flavors of Schubert Calculus and enumerative geometry on flag manifolds, and problems from geometric representation theory and combinatorial Hodge theory. The topics covered include the study of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, quantum cohomology and quantum K theory of flag manifolds, Maulik-Okounkov stable envelopes and characteristic classes, conformal blocks, and combinatorics related to moduli spaces, Macdonald theory, and quiver polynomials, Soergel bimodules, Hodge theory of matroids. These are trends in a rapidly developing area, and our aim is to facilitate interactions among researchers who work on different problems but employ similar techniques, at the intersection of algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and representation theory.

Email: info@icerm.brown.edu

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

The researchers participating in this workshop come from several mathematical subdisciplines, including combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and theoretical computer science. Their work and common interest here is to investigate new interactions between discrete mathematics, algebra, algebraic geometry, tropical geometry, and combinatorial algorithms. Some participants have collaborated before in smaller groups, but this meeting will provide an opportunity to work together more intensively. Several recent mathematical breakthroughs will be highlighted in the workshop, including the recent resolution of some long-standing open problems about graphs and matroids. These breakthroughs used a surprising combination of interdisciplinary techniques which the organizers expect to have exciting further applications.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Information Theory, Foundations of Computer Science

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

The Ontario Combinatorics Workshop is an annual meeting for researchers working in combinatorics to gather and share their latest research developments. The objective of this meeting is to have an atmosphere conducive to research discussion and collaboration. The setting of the meeting is informal to provide a friendly environment for students and post-doctoral fellows to present their results, to exchange ideas, and to gain exposure to various topics in combinatorics. It is also a place where students and faculties meet, which may foster future collaborations.

Algorithms and complexity: algorithms and computational complexity; approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms; computational geometry; parameterized complexity. Operations Research and Mathematical Programming: combinatorial optimization; integer programming; polyhedral combinatorics; operations research and management science. Graph Theory: cliques, dominating and independent sets; colorings; covering and packing, factorization, matching; digraphs, tournaments; graph algorithms; graphs and matrices; hypergraphs; perfect graphs; random graphs; structural characterization of graph classes. Applications to real-world problems: mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, continuous optimization, heuristics, and metaheuristics.

Algorithms and Data Structues,    Operational research

American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to bringing researchers with expertise in asymptotic integrals, computer algebra and topology of complex varieties into contact with those working on analytic combinatorics in several variables (ACSV), in order to make progress on the technical infrastructure of ACSV results.

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

The IPCO conference is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society and is held every year. The conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

The conference will be preceded by a Summer school (May 17-18)

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Operational research

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Geometry and Topology,    Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

The workshop is organized by Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana.

The topic of the workshop is domination in graphs and closely related areas.

hosted by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physics and Natural Sciences

The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in the field of Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications.

Faculty of Applied Mathematics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków

This is a subsequent meeting in the series of former Cracow Conferences on Graph Theory, from this event on merged with the Workshop on Graph Theory - CID. We believe our joint traditions and mutual synergy shall result in a new quality conference devoted to a wide range of subjects within graph theory and beyond. This event is also otherwise exceptional, as it shall provide opportunity to celebrate 80th birthday of Mieczysław Borowiecki and 70th birthday of Mariusz Woźniak — two fundamental figures in the history of the both conferences.

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

Applied and computational topology, one of the most rapidly growing branches of mathematics, is becoming a key tool in applied sciences. It is making impact not only in mathematics, but on the wide interdisciplinary environment including material and medical sciences, data science, robotics.

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Since its inception in 1989 as AWOCA (Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA) has provided a forum for researchers who design algorithms for the myriad combinatorial problems that underlie computer applications in science, engineering and business. IWOCA's ongoing goal is to advance this area of scientific achievement by bringing together the most creative and successful practitioners in this fundamental intersection between mathematics and computer science. IWOCA's sessions provide for the dissemination of new results as well as for discussion and analysis of new problems and problem areas. Both complete papers and problem submissions are subject to a rigorous refereeing process that seeks to maintain the highest standards of academic research.

Durham University, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences

The British Combinatorial Conference is a biennial event organized in the UK attracting international researchers in all areas of combinatorics. The 2021 is the 28th conference in the series and is being held online organized by the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences in Durham under the auspices of the ACiD research group. The conference is overseen by the British Combinatorial Committee

Conference enquiries;     Email: bcc.2021@durham.ac.uk

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

FPSAC/SFCA is a series of annual international conferences on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. The principal topics featured during FPSAC conferences are algebraic and enumerative combinatorics and their applications and relations with other areas of mathematics, physics, biology and computer science. This interdisciplinary nature is reinforced by the choice of plenary speakers.

ICMS - Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

The Young Researchers in Combinatorics workshop is aimed at PhD students and early-career academics working in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics and related fields. By building an environment of mostly young researchers, we hope the participants will feel free to contribute their ideas openly, thus preparing them to undertake their own research projects. The workshop consists mostly of working sessions in which participants collaborate on research problems, and a limited number of talks and lectures.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

The systematic study of random graphs commenced with the seminal work of Erd" os and Renyi in the 1960s. Beyond the classical connections and synergies between random graphs and computer science, over the last few years a new exciting connection between random graphs and statistical inference has been discovered. These connections have led to important new insights on computational problems and statistical inference problems and to new methods for the analysis of random graphs or random discrete structures in general. In addition, since the late 1990s an insightful approach called the cavity method by physicists has been applied to put forward predictions on structural properties of random graphs and their phase transitions. More recently, it has inspired new algorithms for statistical inference problems such as message passing algorithms and novel spectral algorithms. With this workshop we hope to stimulate research and foster new exciting interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers with different backgrounds and expertise in random graphs, computer science, probability, statistics, statistical inference and information theory.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Probability and Statistics, Game Theory

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

The goal of this workshop is to foster collaboration between experts in the domains of Lie theory, quantized enveloping algebras, and algebraic combinatorics.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

Despite the enormous commercial potential that quantum computing presents, the existence of large-scale quantum computers also has the potential to destroy current security infrastructures. Post-quantum cryptography aims to develop new security protocols that will remain secure even after powerful quantum computers are built. This workshop focuses on isogeny-based cryptography, one of the most promising areas in post-quantum cryptography. In particular, we will examine the security, feasibility and development of new protocols in isogeny-based cryptography, as well as the intricate and beautiful pure mathematics of the related isogeny graphs and elliptic curve endomorphism rings. To address the goals of both training and research, the program will be comprised of keynote speakers and working group sessions.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Cryptography, Blockchain and Information Security

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Quantum mechanics has led to some revolutionary changes in computing and information processing. Over the past decades, there has been a surge of research, mostly by physicists and computer scientists, on how quantum computers could outperform their classical counterparts. It is becoming apparent, however, that many of the problems considered have mathematical aspects, and a number of questions in combinatorics are arising as the field of quantum information theory matures. The goal of this workshop is to foster cross-collaboration among mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, in order to explore the deep connections between quantum information and algebraic graph theory.

Algebra,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

Advances in data collection and social media have led to network and graph data becoming available in many areas, including social sciences, biological sciences, and engineering. Understanding and modeling network structure, as well as conducting rigorous statistical inference to assess uncertainty, can provide crucial insights into the dynamics and interaction mechanisms of the system. Statistical network analysis to date has largely focused on the setting where a single network is observed as a noisy version of some underlying structure of interest. This setting in itself is challenging, requiring adaptation of existing statistical frameworks to networks and bridging the gap between theoretically optimal performance and computational feasibility. The workshop will start by covering recent advances in this setting.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Probability and Statistics, Game Theory

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

We are pleased to announce the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization – Methods and Applications, organized by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and held at "Hotel am Schloss" in Apolda, Germany on September 20–24, 2021. The present conference is a continuation of the German-Polish Conference on Optimization series held in Żagań (1999), Cottbus (2002), Będlewo (2005), Moritzburg (2009), Kraków (2011), Wittenberg (2014) and Będlewo (2017).

Conference Office;     Phone: [+49 3641 946200];     Email: nadin.friebe@uni-jena.de

theory of smooth and non-smooth optimization, variational problems and variational inequalities, optimal control, inverse and ill-posed problems, combinatorial optimization, vector optimization, solution methods and applications of optimization

Operational research,    Analysis

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Operational research

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

These are a series of combinatorial workshops, held once per semester, each on a Saturday. The series began with its first meeting in spring 2010. They rotate among the universities in and around the Research Triangle. Participants come from numerous colleges and universities within a few hours drive, and some from even farther away. These workshops are funded by the National Science Foundation, in particular enabling us to bring in four exciting speakers to give one hour talks each time as well as funding travel expenses for participants.

Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany

The Colloquium on Combinatorics is a forum that brings together young researchers and well established scientists. The colloquium will cover all areas of Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics in a broad sense, including combinatorial aspects in Algebra, Geometry, Optimization and Computer Science. All participants are cordially invited to give a scientific talk

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Algebra

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

Graphs are the standard mathematical model of many real-world entities: computer networks, road and highway networks, drainage systems, river networks, electrical networks, and so on. In some cases, these highly-complicated graphs are contained in the product of two or more much simpler graphs. In a recent breakthrough, it was shown that this is the case for planar or near-planar graphs like those that model river, road, and highway networks; any such graph is contained in the product of a simple tree-like graph and a path. This product structure gives deep insight into these graphs and their properties, allowing a host of mathematical and algorithmic tools to be applied to these graphs. The goal of this workshop is to continue the search for product structure in more general classes of graphs as well as to find new methods to exploit such product structure mathematically and algorithmically, when it is present.

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Scheduled as part of the Thematic Program on Trends in Pure and Applied Model Theory

Algebra,    Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Algebra,    Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

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Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Probability and Statistics, Game Theory

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)