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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

 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

  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