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.
Do you know of a combinatorial event that could be relevant for people attending one of the events already on the list? Email me to include it on this page! I shall not promise I will post absolutely anything, but I am willing to mention as many things as possible, especially if I know you / heard of you / see some familiar names or groups in the participant or organizers list of your event.
Pretty extensive lists of links to Combinatorial Conferences: Douglas B. West's list, Janos Pach's list, conference-service.com.
I am also in the market for a postdoc from November 2025.
TU/e Academic Year Agenda (Spring 2025)
Note: Due to TU/e cyberattack consequences, Q3 starts later by 1 week, but ends according to the agenda.
April
April 7 - 11: GAP days at VUB, Brussels, Belgium. The event is aimed at people interested in learning more about using GAP in their research but with little or no experience actually doing it, so anyone from undergraduate students to experienced mathematicians is welcome. More specifically, there will be three minicourses: an introductory one, a group-theory-oriented one (CFSG, solvable groups), and projective-geometric one (incidence geometries, coding theory, FinInG package). The registration is now open.
Link: https://www.gapdays.de/gapdays2025-spring/
April 22 - 23: The traditional NMC takes place in Soesterberg on the Tuesday and Wednesday after Easter. This year, there will be no separate DIAMANT symposium, but a DIAMANT session on the second day of NMC.
Link: https://mathematischcongres.nl/
May
May 26 - 27: RAGA 2025 (Real-world Applications of Geometry and Algebra) will take place in Eindhoven. In this workshop, speakers from industry and academia will talk about topics in their area that involve (or could benefit from) the use of geometry and algebra.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/appliedgeometryalgebra/home/raga-2025
June
June 1 - 6: Fifth Pythagorean Conference in Kalamata, Greece, on finite geometry, algebraic combinatorics, coding theory, and other things we like. The list of invited speakers includes: Ferdinand Ihringer, Klavdija Kutnar, Sam Mattheus, and Alessandro Montinaro. The submission deadline has passed. There is no clear registration form on the website nor a deadline specified, but it is mentioned that there is no registration fee.
Link: https://cargo.wlu.ca/5thPythagorean/
June 2 - 6: NetSci Conference is held in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The list of topic is very extensive, seems to include anything networks, and can be found on the webpage. Right now there is no program available yet, but the information suggests there will be an international school and conference parts, a poster session on June 6, and also various full- or half-day satellites in the first two days. Deadline for early registration has passed, but currently there is a second call for abstracts/posters until April 2.
Link: https://netsci2025.github.io/June 12th: The 8th edition of the Dutch-Belgian Seminar will take place in Brussels. Keep an eye on the webpage or on your inbox for updates.
Link: https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl/dutchbelgiandiscretemathseminar.htmlJune 22 - 27: 8th GEMS conference (Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces) will happen in Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia. The topics include maps and algebraic methods in topological graph theory, but my understanding is that the algebraic graph theory that we do in AC is also relevant. I have heard quite a few good things about the previous editions of the event from our Slovenian/Slovakian colleagues, so sounds very interesting! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 18, and the accommodation can be arranged by contacting the hotel representative by email <rec.slovakia@slktn.sk>. There is more information about rooms and rates for participants in the announcement mail, which I can forward to you if you do not have it and interested in learning more.
Link: https://gems2025.savbb.sk/June 22 - 28: Combinatorics around the q-Onsager algebra conference on the occasion of 70th birthday of Paul Terwilliger, a.k.a. TerwilligerFest, will take place in Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. One of the topics lists algebraic graph theory relevant to distance-regular graphs and association schemes, algebra and representations, and Lie theory, which is relevant to what we have been working on in AC, and the list of confirmed invited speakers includes a lot of familiar names. The abstract submission deadline is March 5, 2025, and the registration is open now.
Link: https://conferences.famnit.upr.si/event/32/June 23 - 27: Next ILAS conference will be in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. One of the announced minisymposia is Combinatorial matrix theory, with Aida as one of the organizers. Robin and I were at the previous ILAS in Madrid, and it was a great experience, it's a big conference, but not so big that most of the talks are irrelevant simply by nature of covering many topics. On the contrary, the event is in linear algebra, so there is always something at least somewhat interesting happening, and last time had a lot of graph and combinatorics focus, too. Registration is now open, early bird deadline is March 31, and there is also student support, which includes fee waivers for members of ILAS (which you can become for free), and also travel and accommodation support for up to 700 USD. The deadline for student support applications is January 31.
Link: https://ilas2025.tw/
July
July 9 - 11: Belgian Graph Theory Conference in Brussels. Based on the list of invited speakers, which includes Martin Milanič, Carla Groenland, Krystal Guo, Ross Kang, Sam Mattheus, and many others, there should be plenty of relevant topics for our community despite the rather general name. There is no information about registration yet, but the organizers say it will be open soon.
Link: https://bgtc.be/
August
August 3 - 17: The next conference in the G2-series returns to Novosibirsk, Russia, under the name of Groups and Graphs, Algebras and Applications. This is a 2-week event merging summer school and conference parts, with plenty of talks on algebraic graph theory, but also more generally algebraic combinatorics and related topics in group theory, geometry, coding theory, etc. So, this is a very nice event bringing together many interesting topics and communities, which I love and recommend to anyone related to algebra or combinatorics enough to end up on this page. There is currently no information about registration, but it is sure to come soon; the preliminary schedule features slots for contributed talks.
Link: https://mca.nsu.ru/g2a2-2025/August 4 - 6: This year's FRICO is hosted by RWTH Aachen University, Germany. This is a workshop organized by PhD students for PhD students, so it's a very nice networking event. The focus is on combinatorial optimization, but some related topics also show up. Every participant gives a 20- or 5-minute talk. The registration is free and will be open from May 1st to July 30th.
Link: https://frico.rwth-aachen.de/August 25 - 29: Once again the CO group will have the PhD week, during which all the PhDs of CO and AC groups are sent to an unannounced remote destination to solve problems and report the results on Friday. So, very fun!
August 25 - 29: EUROCOMB (European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Applications) will take place in Budapest, Hungary. This is a large European combinatorics event, and the topics include algebraic combinatorics and combinatorial optimization. Abstact submission deadline is March 23.
Link: https://eurocomb25.renyi.hu/
September
September 7 - 13: 12th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics will return to Koper, Slovenia. Aida is one of the invited speakers, as well as Miguel Angel Fiol; Sebastian Cioaba and Rajko Nenadov will give the mini-courses. The abstract submission deadline is August 5, and there is a limited financial support for PhD students (covers registration fee), deadline for application is April 15.
Link: https://conferences.famnit.upr.si/event/33/September 14–19: 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum takes place in Heidelberg, Germany. This is a networking event/workshop with focus on interdisciplinary connections between mathematicians and computer scientists. The applications should be opened sometime in spring 2025.
Link: https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/September 15 - 19: Next edition of Finite Geometry and Friends summer will be in VU Brussels, Belgium. The lecturers are Daniele Bartoli, Anurag Bishnoi, Jozefien D'haeseleer, and Violetta Weger. Also all participants can contribute a talk. The registration deadline is August 15, 2025; the registration fee is 210 euros and includes lunches, social dinner, and conference package (last year it had the lecture notes for all the minicourses, so that's a very cool book). For accommodation, there is a special VUB rate at Adagio Brussels Delta close to campus, see more information on the website.
Link: https://summerschool.fining.org/September 24: My PhD defense will take place at 11:00 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands! The defense is public, so anyone interested is welcome to attend, both in person or online; if you are interested in the latter option, just contact me via email, and I will send you the Teams link shortly before the defense.
Regular online seminars
The group from Waterloo organizes an AGT Seminar that is held weekly on Mondays at 17:30 CET. Let me know if you are interested in getting onto their mailing list, I will put you in contact with the organizing person.
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_zf4EM4THqG6ZIvMbYqXdmz3QY05C50 Online Seminar of University of Manitoba is a biweekly webinar about matrices and graphs, the talks are usually on Fridays at 17:00 CET. You can join the mailing list by filling out the subscription form on their webpage.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/05c50online/home?authuser=0Mirka Miller's Combinatorics Webinar has sessions every third Wednesday of the month. The google meet links are posted on their webpage, but there is also a mailing list, you can contact one of the organizers to be put on it.
Link: http://combinatoricswiki.org/wiki/Mirka_Miller%27s_Combinatorics_Webinar_SeriesSeminars on Groups and Graphs is an online seminar for young researchers (PhD students) in finite group theory and spectral graph theory organized by SUSTech in China. The seminar's usual time is Wednesday 10:00 CET (assuming summer time; 16:00 GMT+8), and some talks are in Chinese, but some are in English. To get notified about the latter ones, you can send an email to [groupandgraph@outlook.com] with your name.
Link: https://www.gtseminar.xyz/index.htmlPICS is a biweekly seminar for junior researchers in coding theory. In Fall 2024, the talks will be on Tuesdays at 4pm CET (not the occasional overlap with the TU/e SPOR seminar time). You can fill out a form on the webpage to receive announcements.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/picseminar/homeThe group from Caserta organizes 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 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(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
Further-future events & misc.
Next ICM will be in July 23-30, 2026 in Philadelphia, USA.
Next ECM will be in July 17-21, 2028 in Bologna, Italy.