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Press Release: Dr. Yifan Jing awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                Contact: Sarah Heuss, Secretary of the ICA June 4, 2024                                                                 Email: sarah.heuss@gmail.com                                                                                     url: the-ica.org   Dr. Yifan Jing awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of the ICA   Kirkman Medals recognize excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA early in their research career, as evidenced by an excellent body of published research . Yifan Jing earned his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. Subsequently, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow in Wolfson College at Oxford. This Fall, he will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University.   Yifan Jing is a highly accomplished young ma
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Press Release: Dr. Sam Mattheus awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                Contact: Sarah Heuss, Secretary of the ICA June 4, 2024                                                                 Email: sarah.heuss@gmail.com                                                                                     url: the-ica.org   Dr. Sam Mattheus awarded the 2023 Kirkman Medal of the ICA   Kirkman Medals recognize excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA early in their research career, as evidenced by an excellent body of published research . Sam Mattheus obtained in 2016 the degree of Master in Mathematics, with Summa Cum Laude, at Ghent University. Sam Mattheus obtained in 2022 the Degree of Doctor in Mathematics at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Since 2022, he is a junior postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation at the VUB. During the academic year 2022-2023, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Sa
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Press Release: Dr. Kenta Ozeki awarded the 2023 Hall Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                    Contact: Sarah Heuss, Secretary of the ICA June 4, 2024                                                     Email: sarah.heuss@gmail.com                                                                         url: the-ica.org   Dr. Kenta Ozeki awarded the 2023 Hall Medal of the ICA   Hall Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international impact by Fellows of the ICA in mid-career.   Kenta Ozeki has made deep contributions in the field of structural and topological graph theory. He has obtained a number of important results and solved several long-standing conjectures and problems. His penetrating insight has enabled him to make new discoveries in subjects which have already been thoroughly studied. For example, inspired by Fisk’s seminal result that all the 3-edge-colorings of a cubic bipartite planar graph are Kempe equivalent, Mohar raised the problem of characterizing
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Press Release: Dr. Cheryl Praeger named Honorary Fellow of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                    Contact: Sarah Heuss, Secretary of the ICA June 4, 2024                                                     Email: sarah.heuss@gmail.com                                                                         url: the-ica.org   Dr. Cheryl Praeger named Honorary Fellow of the ICA   Honorary Fellowship in the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is awarded to an individual who has made pre-eminent contributions to combinatorics or its applications .   Cheryl Praeger was a Foundation Fellow of the Institute in 1990 and was a Council Member from 1992 to 2010. She has also held many leadership positions in the mathematical community: President of the Australian Mathematical Society (1992–1994), Member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (2007–2014) and Foreign Secretary of the Australian Academy of Sciences (2014–2018).   Her research and service has been r
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Press Release: Dr. Jennifer Seberry awarded the 2023 Euler Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                    Contact: Sarah Heuss, Secretary of the ICA June 4, 2024                                                     Email: sarah.heuss@gmail.com                                                                         url: the-ica.org   Dr. Jennifer Seberry awarded the 2023 Euler Medal of the ICA   Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research by Fellows of the ICA, including those who remain active in research. Jennifer Roma Seberry (Wallis) has made distinguished contributions to Discrete Mathematics over her sixty-year career. She is world renowned for her new discoveries on Hadamard matrices, orthogonal designs, weighing matrices, Bhaskar Rao designs and statistical designs. She has applied bent functions and S-box design to the design of secure cryptoalgorithms and strong hashing algorithms for secure and reliable information transfer in networks and tel
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Upcoming Conference: 30th British Combinatorial Conference Monday 1 July – Friday 5 July 2024, Queen Mary University of London

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 https://www.qmul.ac.uk/maths/news-and-events/30th-british-combinatorial-conference/ 30th British Combinatorial Conference Monday 1 July – Friday 5 July 2024, Queen Mary University of London School of Mathematical Sciences News and Events 30th British Combinatorial Conference **  IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT  ** We have become aware of a phishing scam requesting arrival and departure dates and offering to reserve accommodation during the conference. The conference organisers will only contact you using @qmul.ac.uk email addresses, and if you are in any doubt about the legitimacy of a request please don't hesitate to get in touch  Speakers Federico Ardila, SFSU Intersection Theory of Matroids: Variations on a Theme Clay Lecturer Photo credit: May-Li Khoe Paul Balister, Oxford Erdős Covering Systems Matthew Jenssen, KCL The Cluster Expansion in Combinatorics Shoham Letzter, UCL Sublinear Expanders and Their Applications Richard Montgomery, Warwick Transversals in Latin Squares Photo credit
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Draft minutes of the2024 AGM

  June 4, 2024 Prior to the beginning of the meeting, two awards were made: 2023 Honorary Fellowship awarded to Cheryl Praeger 2023 Kirkman Medal awarded to Sam Mattheus Dr Colbourn read citations and made the awards with the assistance of Dr Pasotti.     2024 ICA Annual General Meeting President’s Report Charles J. Colbourn June 2024 Mission of the ICA • The ICA was established in 1990 by Ralph Stanton for the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its applications. • The three most important functions of the ICA are: • publishing the Bulletin of the ICA • supporting conferences, and • awarding medals and honorary fellowships. ICA Executive Charles Colbourn President 2022-2025 Dalibor Froncek Vice-President 2022-2025 David Pike Vice-President 2022-2025 Anita Pasotti Vice-President 2023-2026 Sarah Heuss Secretary 2022-2025 Bryan Freyberg Registrar Members of ICA Coun
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