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 https://news.viu.ca/5-questions-melissa-huggan 5 Questions with Melissa Huggan May 31, 2023 - 11:30am Dr. Melissa Huggan, a Vancouver Island University (VIU) Math Professor, received the 2022 Kirkman Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). The award recognizes excellent research by fellows or associate fellows of the ICA early in their research careers.  “She is a leader in her profession, distinguishing herself in organizing conferences, mathematical outreach and teaching excellence,” said the ICA in a release. Huggan joined VIU in August 2022. She completed her PhD in 2019 at Dalhousie University and was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University from 2019 to 2021. She was an Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences post-doctoral fellow at Mount Allison University from 2021 to 2022. Huggan’s research examines pursuit-evasion games, and her current research r
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Notice of the ICA AGM

  Greetings! The Annual General Meeting of the ICA is to be held June 5, at 12:30 CDT during CANADAM 23 in Winnipeg Manitoba. Tentative Agenda: 1. President’s report 2. Membership and Financial Report  3. Election of New Council Members and edits to A of A  4. General Discussion  https://www.canadam.ca/ If you are unable to attend in person, the meeting will be available live via Zoom:  Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 83926478537?pwd= N0NvcG9nU2p1N1h6UmJyOG9taHhldz 09 Meeting ID: 839 2647 8537 Passcode: 851738 Hope to see you there!
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ICA in the news

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 https://www.psu.edu/news/eberly-college-science/story/two-eberly-college-science-named-among-first-atherton-professors/ Two from Eberly College of Science named among first Atherton Professors Abhay Ashtekar, left, and George Andrews.   Credit: Penn State.  Creative Commons FEBRUARY 23, 2023 By Sam Sholtis UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Abhay Ashtekar, Evan Pugh Professor of Physics, and George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics, have been honored by Penn State with the title of Atherton Professor. The University created the Atherton Professorship to recognize the continuing high level of scholarly or creative activity Evan Pugh University Professors may pursue after their retirement. The Evan Pugh University Professorship is the highest distinction bestowed upon faculty by the University. Since the establishment of the designation in 1960, only 79 faculty members have been named as Evan Pugh University Professors. The new professorship recognizes emeritus Evan Pugh University Profes
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Call for nominations for the 2023 medals of the ICA

 Call for Nominations: The Euler, Hall, Kirkman, and Stanton Medals and Honorary Fellows Until 31 December 2023, nominations are invited for the 2023 Medals of the ICA, and for Honorary Fellowship in the ICA. A nomination for a medal or for Honorary Fellowship is to be made by at least two nominators. Each nominator must be an Associate Fellow, Fellow, or Honorary Fellow of the ICA. Nominees must not be members of the ICA Council as of the closing date of nominations; nominees for the Euler, Hall, and Kirkman medals must not be Honorary Fellows. Normally, nominees must also meet the eligibility requirements given below, although documented career interruptions are taken into account when assessing eligibility. Each nomination must include a complete curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a letter of support. The letter of support must provide details of the extent and importance of the nominee's contributions in relation to the selection criteria, and include a summary of
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Dr. Ziqing Xiang awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA                                                                                                 Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com                                                                                                 url: the-ica.org   Dr. Ziqing Xiang awarded the 2022 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 . Ziqing Xiang has made significant contributions in several areas of combinatorics, namely, design theory, algebraic combinatorics, and graph theory. He also has done work in representation theory. Combining algebraic and number theoretic techniques with comput
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Dr. Melissa Huggan awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA

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    For immediate release                                                           Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA                                                                                                 Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com                                                                                                 url: the-ica.org   Dr. Melissa Huggan awarded the 2022 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 . Melissa Huggan is an intelligent, broadly talented, internationally well-connected, young mathematician.  She is a leading light in combinatorial game theory and has forged and strengthened connections between it and economic game theory and other branches of c
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Dr. Pablo Spiga awarded the 2022 Hall Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA                                                                                                 Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com                                                                                                 url: the-ica.org   Dr. Pablo Spiga awarded the 2022 Hall Medal of the ICA   Hall Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international impact by Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. Pablo Spiga is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and is one of the most innovative and productive combinatorial mathematicians of his generation. Pablo works across permutation group theory and graph symmetry with applications impinging on number theory, model theory, finite geometry and
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