TU/e Q3 & Q4 Academic calendar

This is a list of conferences and talks in the foreseeable future that are relevant to people in AC group in TU/e (which stands for Algebraic Combinatorics and includes, roughly speaking, people related to Aida in some way, mostly as her students). I like to keep this list up to date mostly for the sake of my academic siblings (and my own), but if you are in the same field / position / community as me then you might find something relevant for yourself as well.

Pretty extensive lists of links to Combinatorial Conferences: Douglas B. West's list, Janos Pach's list, conference-service.com.

April

• April 15-24: A mini-course Combinatorics on Words by Gabriele Fici will be hosted by CWI. The lectures will be Monday through Thursday, 9:30-12:30, both at CWI and online. Registration is mandatory, and the deadline is March 29. Link: https://cow-amsterdam.github.io/

• April 25: Sam Mattheus is giving a talk "Good lower bounds for off-diagonal Ramsey numbers from explicit constructions over finite fields" at TU Delft at 16:00 at TU Delft Lecture Hall Pi, 36.HB.01.580, EEMCS building. No link, but an announcement was sent through Dutch Combinatorics Network.

May

• May 3: The next edition of Dutch-Belgian Seminar will be in Brussels, and Nils may be presenting. Link: https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl/dutchbelgiandiscretemathseminar.html

• May 7: The second lecture in the current AGT-lectorium mini-course organized by MCA in Novosibirsk. The course is given by Andrei Tetenov, and it is on 'Geometrical topics in the theory of self-similar fractals'. The next lectures will be on May 16 and May 30, and the start time is 1pm Central European Time. Link: https://mca.nsu.ru/lectAGT/ 

• May 23: Intercity Seminar will be held at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It is a part of Dutch Seminar on Optimization, and the speakers are Georgina Hall (from Paris), and Alessandra Lassota from the CO group in Eindhoven. The registration is free and not necessary but appreciated, and there is also an option to join for dinner after, and if you want to, then the registration deadline is May 12. Link: https://vu.nl/en/events/2024/dutch-intercity-seminar-on-optimization

• May 31: Benders day, organized by the CO group in Eindhoven Univesity of Technology. Link: https://www.win.tue.nl/~chojny/bendersday/bendersday.html

• May 31: A special edition of Dutch-Belgian Seminar, DOCTOR (Delightful Occasion for Combinatorial Talks on Outstanding Research), will take place in Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Leo, Simeon, Gianira, and Anurag will give talks, followed by the PhD defense of Sam Adriaensen. The registration deadline is May 24 and can be done via the registration form. Link: https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl/dutchbelgiandiscretemathseminar.html

June

• June 18: Sjanne's PhD defence!

• June 3 - 7: Combinatorics 2024 in Bari, Italy, the one our Italian colleagues have been talking about for solid two years now. The (late) registration deadline is May 7. Accommodation is booked upon registration, but is not included in the fee. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/combinatorics2024/

July

• July 1 - 5: Biannual British Combinatorial Conference in London with opportunities for contributed talks. Link: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/maths/news-and-events/30th-british-combinatorial-conference/

• July 3 - 5: Discrete Mathematics Days 2024 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. It is the same conference that Robin and I attended in Santander, and it was pretty nice back then! Deadlines: confirmation of acceptance by May 17, early registration and final version submission by May 31. Link: https://dmd2024.web.uah.es/

• July 8 - 12: CoDesCo (Combinatorial Designs and Codes) 2024 in  University of Seville, Spain, on July 8–12, 2024. It is a satellite event of the 9th European Congress of Mathematics. Deadlines: early registration May 1, abstract submission May 15, late registration June 15. Link: https://gestioneventos.us.es/codesco24

• July 15-19: This year's ECM is in Seville, Spain. The travel grant deadline has already passed, but there are are opportunities to present a contributed/lightning talk or a poster. Registrations are with deadlines in May 31st (regular), and the event date (late). Link: https://www.ecm2024sevilla.com/index.php

• July 15-19: Summer School in Algebraic Combinatorics in Leipzig, Germany. The registration is already closed: https://www.mis.mpg.de/events/series/summer-school-in-algebraic-combinatorics

August

• August 11 - 25: G2C2 conference in Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China. G2C2 (Graphs and Groups, Complexity and Convexity) is another event in the G2 conference series that has been organized by Siberian algebraic graph theorists but was also hosted in China and Slovenia in more recent years. The registration is now open with the deadline of June 1st. The students (PhDs included) can get free shared accommodation on a first-come-first-serve basis, and anyway you can contact the organizers before the registration deadline to book an on-campus accommodation for a fee (three options, all shared/single use). Link: http://app.hebtu.edu.cn/2024g2c2/

September

• September 9 - 13: FRICO 2024 in Magdeburg, Germany. It is a CO workshop that is organized by PhD students for PhD students, with every participant giving a talk. FRICO usually gets industry or academia sponsors, so the participation is free. Algebraic combinatorics is a little out of the workshop's scope, but our group of CO PhDs organized the previous edition in Eindhoven, and it would be nice to see familiar faces. And the website has an easter egg similar to last year, try clicking on the "O" of the logo! Link: https://frico2024.ovgu.de/

November

• November 4 - 8: A Eurandom workshop on graph Laplacians, multivariate extremes and algebraic statistics, with mini-courses in the first two days and the workshop in the following three days. It seems related to the graph theory we are doing, so worth checking out, especially since it is in Eindhoven. Registration opens soon. Link: www.eurandom.tue.nl/event/eurandom-workshop-on-graph-laplacians-multivariate-extremes-and-algebraic-statistics/ 

Regular online seminars

• The group from Waterloo organizes an AGT Seminar that is held weekly on Mondays at 17:30 CET. I think you can contact Soffia [soffia.arnadottir@uwaterloo.ca] to get on the mailing list. There is a webpage: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~agtheory/ and also a YouTube playlist with recordings of past seminar sessions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_x-9BL_zf4EM4THqG6ZIvMbYqXdmz3QY

• (This webinar is currently on a break) AGTIW happens every other Tuesday at 19:00 CET and is managed by Robert Jajcay, mail him [robert.jajcay@fmph.uniba.sk] to get on the list. The zoom links and recordings of the past webinars are available on the webpage. Link: http://euler.doa.fmph.uniba.sk/AGTIW.html

• Mirka Miller's Combinatorics Webinar has sessions every third Wednesday of the month. Cristina [cristina.dalfo.simo@gmail.com] is probably the person that can get you on the mailing list. Link: http://combinatoricswiki.org/wiki/Mirka_Miller%27s_Combinatorics_Webinar_Series

• The people from Caserta organize an eSeminar "Galois geometries and their applications" with some very nice coding and geometry related talks, so relevant for us. The schedule is somewhat irregular, but there are usually talks take place once a month. You can find the contacts of the organizers on the seminar's webpage and ask them to include you in the mailing list. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/galoisgeometriesapplications/home

• PICS is a biweekly-ish seminar for junior researchers in coding theory. The talks are usually on Thursday or Wednesday, and you can fill out a form on the webpage to receive announcements. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/picseminar/home

Further-future events & misc.

• There will be a summer school in Brazil in August 2024, and it is possible that we will be able to go on Remco grant as Aida's students.

• Next ILAS will be in June 23-27, 2025 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.