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Dr. Hendrik Van Maldeghem awarded the 2021 Euler Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 18, 2022                                                                                                Secretary of the ICA                                                                                                 Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com                                                                                                 url: the-ica.org   Dr. Hendrik Van Maldeghem awarded the 2021 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.   Hendrik Van Maldeghem is a world leader in combinatorial geometry. His research has spanned Tits buildings, generalised polygons, Moufang sets, projective spaces, unitals, Veronese and Hermitian varieties, and the Freudenthal-Tits magic square. Further

Dr. Gary Chartrand awarded the 2021 Stanton Medal of the ICA

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      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 18, 2022                                                                                                Secretary of the ICA                                                                                                 Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com                                                                                                 url: the-ica.org   Dr. Gary Chartrand awarded the 2021 Stanton Medal of the ICA   Stanton Medals honour significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring.   Gary Chartrand has played a large part in popularizing graph theory. In particular, he has written eleven different text books (not counting editions) and three monographs, with various co-authors. These include books intended to introduce graph theory to

Updated Articles of Association as of 3/9/22

  ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE ICA     THE INSTITUTE OF COMBINATORICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is a professional society whose mission is to promote the development of combinatorics and to encourage publications and conferences in the field of combinatorics.   Contents General 1 Membership . 1 Fellows . 1 Honorary Fellows . 1 Associate Fellows . 1 Companion Members . 1 Student Members . 1 Corporate and Institutional Members . 1 Nominations, Elections, and Transfers . 1 By-laws, Entrance Fees, and Subscriptions . 1 Rights of Members . 1 Resignation and Removal of Names from the Register 1 General Meetings . 1 Proceedings at General Meetings . 1 Votes of Members . 1 Powers of the Council 1 Proceedings of the Council 1 Registrar 1 The Seal 1 Accounts . 1 Audit 1 Medals . 1 Policies . 1     General The first draft of these articles was modelled on those of the Br

Conference Announcement: 29th British Combinatorial Conference Monday 11th July-Friday 15th July 2022 Lancaster UK

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 https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/maths/bcc2022/ Speakers Noga Alon Princeton (Clay Lecturer), "Fair partitions" Jozsef Balogh Illinois, "Hypergraph Turan problems in l_2-norm" Irit Dinur Weizmann, "Expanders and codes" David Ellis Bristol, "Intersection problems in extremal combinatorics" Valentina Pepe Rome, "Finite geometry and extremal graph theory" Alexey Pokrovskiy UCL, "Rainbow subgraphs and their applications" Laszlo Vegh LSE, "Linear programming and the circuit imbalance measure" Paul Wollan Rome, "Explicit bounds in graph minors" Josephine Yu Georgia Tech, "Combinatorics of tropical geometry" The Mini-symposia will be: Additive combinatorics  (organised by  Ben Green , Oxford) Natasha Morrison  (University of Victoria) Akshat Mudgal  (Oxford) Sarah Peluse  (Princeton) Freddie Manners * (TBC, UC San Diego) Designs and algebraic structures  (organised by  Leonard Soicher , Queen Mary), speakers