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The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.comBlogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-20908249481525879162023-06-15T07:20:00.001-07:002023-06-15T07:20:00.155-07:00Draft minutes of the ICA AGM<h1 style="text-align: left;">2023 ICA Annual General Meeting</h1><h2 style="text-align: left;">PART I: President’s Report</h2><p>Charles J. Colbourn</p><p><b>Mission of the ICA</b></p><p>• 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.</p><p>• The three most important functions of the ICA are:<br /><span> </span>• publishing the Bulletin of the ICA<br /><span> </span>• supporting conferences, and<br /><span> </span>• awarding medals and honorary fellowships.</p><p><b>ICA Executive</b></p><p>Charles Colbourn President 2022-2025<br />Dalibor Froncek Vice-President 2022-2025<br />David Pike Vice-President 2022-2025<br />Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng Vice-President 2020-2023<br />To Be Elected Vice-President 2023-2026<br />Sarah Holliday Secretary 2022-2025<br />Bryan Freyberg Registrar<br />Doug Stinson Past President<br />Spyros Magliveras Registrar Emeritus</p><p><b>Members of ICA Council (2022–2023)</b></p><p>Subramanian Arumugam 2021-2024 Darryn Bryant 2022-2025<br />Yeow Meng Chee 2020-2023 Charles Colbourn 2022-2025<br />Jeff Dinitz 2021-2024 Dalibor Froncek 2022-2025<br />Wayne Goddard 2020-2023 James Hammer, III 2020-2023<br />Masaaki Harada 2020-2023 Derek Hein 2020-2023<br />Fred Hoffman 2022-2025 Sarah Holliday 2022-2025<br />Lijun Ji 2019-2023 Mark Kayll 2020-2023<br />Melissa Keranen 2021-2024 Bill Kocay 2022-2025<br />Selda K ̈u ̧c ̈uk ̧cif ̧ci 2020-2023 Mariusz Meszka 2021-2024<br />Bojan Mohar 2021-2024 Gary Mullen 2021-2024<br />Darren Narayan 2022-2025 Ortrud Oellermann 2021-2024<br />Patric Osterg ̊ard 2022-2025 ̈ Daniel Panario 2020-2023<br />Anita Pasotti 2022-2025 Adrian Pastine 2021-2024<br />David Pike 2022-2025 Dinesh Sarvate 2021-2024<br />Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng 2020-2023 John Wierman 2022-2025</p><p><b>ICA Office</b></p><p>• The ICA Office is located at Duluth, Minnesota (University of Minnesota Duluth).</p><p>• The ICA Registrar is Bryan Freyberg, and the ICA Assistant is Connor Pride at email pride035@d.umn.edu</p><p>• Invoicing of members’ dues from the UMD office started in January, 2022. </p><p>• Dues payments are made via email; invoices are sent to member’s email addresses via Authorize.net.</p><p>• For information about memberships, please send email to Bryan: frey0031@d.umn.edu</p><p>• Tax-deductible donations can be made to the ICA; email Bryan for further information.</p><p><b>Dues Schedule</b></p><p>FTICA (fellow)</p><p>• one year : $85<br />• two years: $155 (approximately a 10% discount)<br />• three years: $205 (approximately a 20% discount)<br />• lifetime: $1000</p><p>AFTICA (Associate Fellow)</p><p>• one year: $65</p><p>MTICA (Companion, Graduate, Student)</p><p>• one year: $45</p><p>Retired Persons</p><p>• one year: $42.50 (this is a 50% discount)<br />• lifetime: $500 (for members for ≥ 10 years)</p><p>For most membership categories, dues are virtually unchanged since the founding of the ICA in 1990.</p><p>Institutional Members: $250 per year<br />Corporate Members: $500 per year<br />Senior Corporate Members: $1000 per year<br />Sponsoring Corporate Members: $2500 per year</p><p>We do not have any active memberships in these categories.</p><p>New Member Initiatives</p><p>• any student who finishes a PhD in Combinatorics is eligible to receive a one-year free membership in the ICA</p><p>• a new ICA member who registers for two years will receive the first year of membership free</p><p><b>ICA Medals Committee</b></p><p>Member Years Chair</p><p>Heather Jordon 2021–2024 2023–2024<br />Ying Miao 2022–2025<br />Kai-Uwe Schmidt 2023–2026<br />Michael Giudici 2020–2023 2022–2023<br />Gennian Ge 2019–2022 2021–2022<br />Mateja Sajna ˇ 2018–2021 2020–2021<br />Jonathan Jedwab 2016–2020 2019–2020<br />Charlie Colbourn 2016-2019 2016–2019<br />Christine O’Keefe 2016-2018</p><p>• Kai-Uwe Schmidt is replacing Michael Giudici, whose term has just finished. Thanks to Michael for excellent leadership, to Kai for willingness to serve, and to Heather and Ying for handling a larger than usual volume of nominations in 2022–23.</p><p>• The three committee members are on staggered three year terms, which helps to ensure continuity in the committee.</p><p>• The Medals Committee reviews all nominations using the individual medal criteria and recommends awards to the ICA President. The ICA Council makes the final decision to approve these recommendations.</p><p>• The Medals Committee does not comment on nominations that are not recommended in a given year, and these are not forwarded to the President, Executive, or Council.</p><p><b>ICA Canvassing Committee</b></p><p>• A new Canvassing Committee (Mateja Sajna (chair), Wayne Goddard, Alison Marr, Daniel Panario, Olga Polverino, Dinesh Sarvate, Tommaso Traetta, Xiande Zhang, and Sanming Zhou) identified more than twenty possible nominees, and succeeded in bringing in at least a dozen nominations.</p><p>• The Committee was particularly successful in increasing the number of high-quality Hall and Euler nominees.</p><p>• Thanks to everyone on the Canvassing Committee for their efforts!</p><p>Euler Medal Winners 2010–2022</p><p>year winner(s)</p><p>2022 George Andrews <br />2021 Hendrik Van Maldeghem<br />2020 Marston Conder<br />2018 Dieter Jungnickel<br />2017 Fan Chung<br />2016 James Hirschfeld<br />2014 Brian Alspach<br />2013 Curt Lindner<br />2012 Alex Rosa<br />2011 Cheryl Praeger<br />2010 Bojan Mohar</p><p>Hall Medal Winners 2010–2022</p><p>year winner(s)</p><p>2022 Jan De Beule Pablo Spiga<br />2021 Tao Feng Anita Pasotti<br />2020 Jie Ma<br />2019 Jeroen Schillewaert Koen Thas<br />2018 Kai-Uwe Schmidt<br />2017 John Bamberg Daniel Horsley<br />2015 Lijun Ji<br />2014 Peter Dukes<br />2013 Bart De Bruyn<br />2012 Michael Giudici</p><p>2011 Olga Polverino</p><p>2010 Catherine Greenhill</p><p><br /></p><p>Kirkman Medal Winners 2010–2022</p><p>year winner(s)</p><p>2022 Melissa Huggan Ziqing Xian<br />2021 Yujie Gu Natasha Morrison<br />2020 Chong Shangguan<br />2019 Tao Zhang<br />2018 Alexander Bors Shuxing Li<br />2017 Hengjia Wei Binzhou Xia<br />2016 Yue Zhou<br />2015 Padraig O Cath ́ain ́<br />2014 Daniele Bartoli<br />2013 Tommaso Traetta<br />2012 Rebecca Stones Xiande Zhang<br />2011 Tao Feng<br />2010 Daniel Horsley Kai-Uwe Schmidt</p><p><br /></p><p>Stanton Medal Winners 2016–2022</p><p>year winner(s)</p><p>2022 Doug Stinson<br />2021 Gary Chartrand<br />2019 Charlie Colbourn<br />2017 Robin Wilson<br />2016 Ron Mullin</p><p><b>Medal Presentations</b></p><p>• After years of pandemic delay, the ICA has been catching up on medal presentations!</p><p>• One at the Southeastern conference, three here at CanaDAM, one at the CMS meeting that is just ending, three at the Slovenian conference later this month, and one at the Australasian conference in December.</p><p><b>Honorary Fellows</b></p><p>• “The Council may elect to Honorary Fellowship any person who has made pre-eminent contributions to combinatorics or its applications. The number of living Honorary Fellows shall not exceed ten.”</p><p>• One of our Honorary Fellows, Vera T. S ́os, passed away earlier this year.</p><p>• At present, there are five living Honorary Fellows: Henry Gould, C.R. Rao, Neil Robertson, G.J. Simmons, Carsten Thomassen.</p><p>• Nominations of pre-eminent scholars, to be submitted to the Medals Committee, are invited!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Conference Support</b></p><p>The ICA provides significant support for conferences in combinatorics and related areas. We provide up to $1000 in support for conferences, subject to approval by the Executive.</p><p>2023 Conferences supported by the ICA (so far):</p><p>• 54th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, March 2023<br />• CanaDAM, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2023 <br />• International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications 2023 (Fq15), Paris, France, June 2023<br />• Combinatorics and Number Theory in Duluth, Duluth, July 2023<br />• Finite Geometry and Friends, Brussels, Sept 2023<br />• 45th Australasian Conference on Combinatorics, Perth, Dec 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bulletin of the ICA</b></p><p>• The EICs are Marco Buratti, Don Kreher, Ortrud Oellermann, and Tran van Trung. They are ably assisted by an international editorial board.</p><p>• The most recent volume is the June 2023 issue, which is Volume 98.</p><p>• Printing and mailing is done from Czechia.</p><p>• Production is handled by Don Kreher.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>News in the Bulletin of the ICA</b></p><p>• The Bulletin is looking for a volunteer News Editor, to collect and edit conference reports, particularly those about conferences supported by the ICA, solicit and collect news from members, and coordinate with the BICA EICs for the preparation and publications of news items.</p><p>• The EICs are kept busy with the research papers and the publication of each volume.</p><p>• Can someone help with the news? Email me or Marco Buratti if you are interested.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Online Publication of the Bulletin</b></p><p>• Starting from Volume 79 (January 2017), the Bulletin is made available online as a .pdf file, on a</p><p>password-protected web page open to ICA members; refereed research articles are published on the ICA web pages following a “diamond” open access policy, and so are available online free of charge to everyone; tables of contents are also available on the ICA web pages.</p><p>• Scopus indexes the Bulletin of the ICA.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Online Publication of the Bulletin</b></p><p><br /></p><p>• We continue to also mail printed copies to members and subscription holders.</p><p>• New: You can email the ICA Registrar to request that you only receive the electronic copy and not the printed one. Why might you do that?</p><p>• Save trees, help the environment.</p><p>• Free up ICA funds for conference support and the medals.</p><p>• Help the ICA continue to have membership dues that are unchanged since 1990.</p><p>• If you only read and save the electronic copy of the Bulletin, and don’t need the printed copy, please email Bryan.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ICA Web Pages</b></p><p><br /></p><p>• Luca Giuzzi serves as webmaster for the ICA.</p><p>• Official ICA web pages: http://the-ica.org</p><p>• Luca maintains the ICA web pages. Check them out! They contain a lot of useful information.</p><p>• The Bulletin of the ICA can be accessed there, along with press releases and citations of medal winners, a list of supported conferences, and much more.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Challenges</b></p><p><br /></p><p>• The ICA functions due to the efforts of many unpaid volunteers! Substantial effort is required to make everything run smoothly. The ICA has been fortunate to have many talented volunteers, but we always need your help!</p><p>• We need an increased membership; initiatives by the Registrar and the Executive are meeting with some success, but growth remains essential.</p><p>• We do not want to increase dues unless it is absolutely necessary. This means increasing revenue and/or decreasing costs, without reducing the many positive contributions of the ICA.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>How You Can Support the ICA</b></p><p><br /></p><p>• Persuade your friends and students to join the ICA.</p><p>• Make a donation to the ICA. Many thanks to Sarah Holliday and Doug Stinson for generous donations in 2022.</p><p>• Find a benefactor to support the ICA as a corporate member.</p><p>• Nominate worthy people for medals and honorary fellowships.</p><p>• Submit research articles and other items of interest (news items, book reviews, conference reports, etc.) to the Bulletin. Persuade your library to subscribe to BICA.</p><p>• Serve the ICA as a member of the Council or the Executive.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thanks</b>!</p><p><br /></p><p>• The ICA Executive: Sarah, Dalibor, David and Kiki</p><p>• The ICA Registrar: Bryan (and the ICA Assistant, Connor)</p><p>• The ICA Webmaster: Luca</p><p>• The EICs of the Bulletin: Marco Buratti, Don Kreher, Ortrud Oellermann, Tran van Trung</p><p>• ICA Council</p><p>• Medals Committee members (especially Michael Giudici, the outgoing chair)</p><p>• Canvassing Committee members (especially Mateja Sajna ˇ , the continuing chair)</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Part 2: Registrar's report</h2><p>Bryan Freyberg</p><p><b>Office move: FAU -> UMD</b></p><p>• Operations at UMD began in December 2021</p><p>• Registrar - Bryan Freyberg</p><p>• Administrative Assistant - Connor Pride</p><p>• ICA’s balance of $13,571.40 transferred from FAU office July 2022</p><p><b>Financial Summary</b>: 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2022</p><p>• Balance on 1/1/2022 $13,780.69</p><p>(SM)</p><p>• Total Proceeds in Period $32,433.84</p><p>• Total Funds in Period $ 46,214.53</p><p>• Total Expenses in Period $23,239.66</p><p>• Balance as of 12/31/2022 $22,830.58</p><p><b>First year successes at UMD</b></p><p>2021 2022</p><p>Year-end Balance $13,780.69 $22,830.58</p><p>Proceeds $19,237.00 $32,433.84</p><p>Wages Paid (Admin. Assistant) $12,442.89 $1,942.75</p><p><b>Summary of Expenses</b></p><p>• Support for Conferences* $3,412.87</p><p>• BICA Vols. 94,95,96 $9,530.00</p><p>• Fees associated with reorganization $4,232.97</p><p>• Administrative Assistant $1,942.75</p><p>• Other Fees $4,121.07</p><p>• Total Expenses $23,239.66</p><p>*This will be higher next year; $4,308 as of 6/1/23.</p><p>0</p><p>1000</p><p>2000</p><p>3000</p><p>4000</p><p>5000</p><p>6000</p><p>Retired-37 MTICA-4 FTICA(1)-14 FTICA(2)-30 FTICA(3)-23 Lifetime-8 BICA-5 Donations-3</p><p>Proceeds from dues, BICA, and donations for 2022</p><p><b>Membership Summary</b></p><p>365 Active Members</p><p>2022 2021</p><p>Honorary Fellows 5 6</p><p>Lifetime Members 80 63</p><p>FTICA 286 336</p><p>AFTICA 67 75</p><p>MTICA 6 6</p><p>Retired 37 84</p><p>New Members 28 9</p><p>Removed 38 (with 43 more pending) 10</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Other Information</b></p><p>• We are still working to update the database and locate folks. If you did not receive an email notification of this meeting from me, please update your email address with me: frey0031@d.umn.edu</p><p>• There has been an increase in the number of conferences we have been asked to support.</p><p>• If you wish to stop receiving your printed version of BICA, please email me and let me know. Full versions of BICA are available online to members.</p><p><b>Recommendations</b></p><p>• Recruit more new members, especially in Asia and Africa.</p><p>• Find more libraries or other institutions to subscribe to BICA.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Part 3: Elections and edits to articles of association</h2><div>Sarah Heuss</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>There are 30 council members and each year, 10 rotate off and 10 are elected. </div><div><br /></div><div>In addition, the executive is comprised of Presidents, three Vice Presidents, Secretary, and Registrar. Kiki Sugeng is rotating off council at this time, and we recommend Anita Pasotti as the new Vice President. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Tomoko Adachi</div><div>Rinovia Simanjuntak</div><div>James Hammer, III<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Masaaki Harada<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Brett Stevens<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Lijun Ji<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Mark Kayll<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Anamari Nakic<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Wayne Goddard</div><div>Daniel Panario<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div></div><div><br /></div>Slate accepted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Edits to the A of A: </div><div><div>86. Policy on Conference support: A conference organizer or organizing committee consisting of largely ICA membership may petition the Executive Council for Conference support. If the Executive Council deems (a) the Conference topic of interest to a majority of members in the ICA, and (b) the Conference will be attended by a non-trivial proportion of members of the ICA, and (c) the organizer(s) allow the ICA to host a business meeting (if needed), and (d) the organizer(s) will use the ICA logo appropriately in all advertising (print and online), then the Executive Council will consult the budget for the year and award appropriately.</div></div><div>The following sentence should be appended: “Any member of the Executive who has a conflict of interest, real or perceived, with a request for conference support shall not vote on approval of the request.”</div><div><br /></div><div><div>84. Selection committee shall be comprised of Fellows, and the chair of the selection committee shall be a member of the Council.</div></div><div>replaced by<br />84. There shall be two standing committees of the ICA for supporting the ICA Medals Program. <br /><div>(a) The Medals Committee consists of three ICA Fellows, appointed by the ICA Executive and Council for three-year terms, staggered. Normally, members of the Medals Committee are not also members of Council. The Medals Committee prepares a call for nominations and later receives and evaluates all nominations received pursuant to Articles 82 and 83. The Committee makes recommendations to the President each year, reporting only those nominees for whom the recommendation is positive. The President presents these candidates to Council for approval. The Medals Committee shall not comment on the merits of a nomination, potential or actual, except in communication with the President or Executive.</div></div><div><div>(b) The Canvassing Committee consists of a chair, who is an ICA Fellow and is appointed by the Executive from time to time, and any reasonable number of other committee members to be determined at the discretion of the chair in consultation with the President. The Canvassing Committee shall strive to identify suitable nominees for medals or honorary fellowship, locate potential nominators, encourage nominations, and when appropriate provide advice on the nomination. The Canvassing Committee shall not make nominations itself; shall not interact directly with the current Medals Committee on these matters; and shall not comment, directly or indirectly, on the likelihood of success of a nomination.”</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>38. Seven Voting Members personally present shall be a quorum.</div></div><div>replaced by</div><div>38. Seven Voting Members present, whether in person or simultaneously online, shall constitute a quorum.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>47. At all General Meetings of the Institute, there will be no proxy or absentee voting. If an issue requiring a vote is considered disputable by one-third of the members present, its vote may be held by email within a 30 day period. </div></div><div>replaced by </div><div>47. At all General Meetings of the Institute, only Voting Members attending in person or simultaneously online can vote. No proxy voting is allowed. If an issue requiring a vote is considered disputable by one-third of the members present, its vote may be held by email within a 30-day period. </div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><p><br /></p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-6803725327794302752023-06-08T12:20:00.003-07:002023-06-08T12:20:00.139-07:00Member in the news<p> https://news.viu.ca/5-questions-melissa-huggan</p><p><br /></p><div class="oa-layout-contentheader panel-panel" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: ProximaNova, Corbel, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div class="panel-panel-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="panel-pane pane-pane-oa-title" style="border-right: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 50px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; scroll-margin-top: 3ex;">5 Questions with Melissa Huggan</h1></div></div></div></div><p><a id="main-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007dba; font-family: ProximaNova, Corbel, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; scroll-margin-top: 3ex;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: ProximaNova, Corbel, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><div class="oa-layout-content content panel-panel" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: ProximaNova, Corbel, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div class="panel-panel-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="oa-horizontal-slice style-region" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="panel-pane pane-page-content" style="border-right: 0px !important; 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position: relative;"><div class="view view-viu-news-detail view-id-viu_news_detail view-display-id-news_details view-dom-id-d6cc4f902f6a3f4c6553d20ab880449e" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="view-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="views-field views-field-field-oa-related" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="caption caption-right panopoly-images-processed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em 1em; max-width: 100%; width: 1178px;"><div class="caption-width-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="caption-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.857em; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; text-align: center; width: auto;"><img alt="Headshot of Dr. Melissa Huggan." class="news-detail" height="780" loading="lazy" src="https://news.viu.ca/sites/default/files/styles/news_detail/public/melissahuggan-viu-resize.jpg?itok=D2F4EUFB" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1170" /><p class="caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.25em 0px;"></p></div></div></div><div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">May 31, 2023 - 11:30am</em></p><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">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. </p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“She is a leader in her profession, distinguishing herself in organizing conferences, mathematical outreach and teaching excellence,” said the ICA in a release.</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">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.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Huggan’s research examines pursuit-evasion games, and her current research relates to the classic game of Cops and Robbers. This research can give insight into the real-life problem of containing the spread of misinformation on a network. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We caught up with Huggan to talk about the Kirkman Medal and her research.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em;">How does it feel to receive the 2022 Kirkman Medal from the ICA?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It is an immense honour to receive the 2022 Kirkman Medal from the ICA. Being recognized for my research contributions by the mathematical community is very rewarding.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em;">What sparked your interest in mathematics?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I always enjoyed the problem-solving aspect of mathematics. It often felt like putting a puzzle together; an opportunity to think creatively, knowing there is a final answer without knowing what it is until you persevere and carefully think through all the details. The reward comes when you stand back and see the beauty in a well-thought-out, clearly-written solution. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mathematics is a lively discipline, with active research in all areas. Once learning this fact, I wanted to know more. </p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em;">What do you enjoy most about being a mathematics professor?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sharing my passion of mathematics with others. I am fortunate enough to have a profession that allows me to share my passion on three different levels: teaching, research and student supervision. Each lends itself to a very different means of disseminating mathematics: through instruction, technical writing of research results and mentorship of the next generation respectively. </p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em;">Why did you choose to examine combinatorial game theory and what did you discover? </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Combinatorial game theory (CGT) is the mathematical study of two-player games, where players move alternately. Both players always know all game states throughout play, and there is no element of chance such as dice or spinners. Using mathematics, we aim to determine the best strategies for each player, who wins the game (game outcome), and by how much do they win the game (game value). </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I took a class in combinatorial game theory during my undergraduate degree that opened my eyes to a whole new area of study. As with many topics, the more you learn, the more you realize there is to learn. After completing a master’s degree where I studied combinatorial games, I pursued a PhD with the aim of becoming an expert in the field. I completed my PhD in 2019. My research focused on bridging combinatorial game theory with economic game theory by developing a theory of simultaneous combinatorial games. I also examined the use of alternative tools for classical CGT for gaining insight into the mathematical structure of games when the game value was too difficult to calculate. </p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b5c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em;">Tell us about some of your research that examines pursuit-evasion games, in particular your work relating to the classic game of Cops and Robbers. </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cops and Robbers is played on a network. A network is a set of nodes, which are connected if there is a relationship between them. A map is a network, where locations are nodes and roads are connections between them. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Pursuit-evasion games are adversarial games played on networks, where one player is a threat (typically called the robber), and the other player (typically called the cops) is trying to neutralize the threat. The game starts by the cop placing themselves on a node, then the robber placing themselves on a different node. Then they alternate turns, starting with the cop, where they can move from one node to another if they are connected. If the cop can occupy the same node as the robber, then the threat is neutralized (or captured), the game is over and the cop wins. If this never happens, then the robber wins. This model has perfect information, meaning both players always know all game states. Research on Cops and Robbers often focuses on how to minimize the resources required to capture the robber. Resources include the number of cops and the time it takes to capture.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I am studying a variant of the game where the robber damages each unique location they visit. The robber’s goal is to damage as many nodes as they can. The cop’s goal is to limit the damage. A central question is how much of the network can the cop protect? To solve questions in this research area, we use our mathematical understanding of the structure of networks to develop strategies for the cop and robber players respectively. This models the real-life problem of containing the spread of misinformation on a network. </p></div></div></div><hr style="border-bottom: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.02em;">Tags: <a href="https://news.viu.ca/5-questions" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007dba; text-decoration-line: none;">5 Questions</a> | <a href="https://news.viu.ca/categories/mathematics" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007dba; text-decoration-line: none;">Mathematics</a> | <a href="https://news.viu.ca/categories/research" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007dba; text-decoration-line: none;">Research</a></strong></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-40896271038192321582023-06-01T12:20:00.003-07:002023-06-01T12:20:47.018-07:00Notice of the ICA AGM<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Greetings!</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Annual General Meeting of the ICA is to be held June 5, at 12:30 CDT during CANADAM 23 in Winnipeg Manitoba.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Tentative Agenda:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><blockquote style="color: #201f1e; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center;" type="cite"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. 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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.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">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.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">The new professorship recognizes emeritus Evan Pugh University Professors for their exceptional record of research and creative accomplishment, teaching and learning, and service over the course of their careers, and allows for the continuation of these activities to the benefit of the University community.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">"I am delighted to announce that Abhay Ashtekar and George Andrews have been named Atherton Professors,” said Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science and professor of biology. “This new honorific was created to recognize emeritus Evan Pugh Professors, and I can’t think of two more deserving individuals to be among the first cohort honored by the University with this title. The fact that two of the three inaugural Atherton Professors are Eberly College of Science emeritus faculty shows the level of excellence, collegiality and lifelong dedication to research, discovery and education that is ingrained in our college."</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">In addition to Ashtekar and Andrews, James Kasting from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has also been named an Atherton Professor.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Abhay Ashtekar</h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Ashtekar is emeritus holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics and was the founding director of the Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, which he led from 1992 to 2021.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">"Abhay has had enormous influence in making Penn State an internationally recognized center of excellence for fundamental studies in gravitational physics and cosmology,” said Nitin Samarth, George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head and professor of physics. “I look forward to his continued engagement as a creative scholar advancing the frontiers of fundamental theory and as an ambassador representing Penn State's leadership to the broader scientific community."</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Ashtekar is a widely recognized leader in theoretical physics and focuses his research on classical general relativity and quantum gravity. Ashtekar’s most prominent and creative contribution to physics is his seminal reformulation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity as a gauge theory. The central piece of this reformulation is his discovery of a new set of canonical variables, now known as Ashtekar variables, that provided a powerful representation of canonical general relativity and led to an important branch of fundamental theory known as “loop quantum gravity.” Thanks to his groundbreaking work, loop quantum gravity — a quantum theory of spacetime — has become a leading approach to the unification of general relativity and quantum physics that is being pursued by dozens of research groups worldwide. The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos that Ashtekar created at Penn State is a focal point for research worldwide into all aspects of the theory of gravity, including quantum gravity.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Renowned as one of the most-cited researchers in the field of relativity, Ashtekar has given over 200 plenary lectures at national and international conferences and workshops. Ashtekar was honored at the Loops 11 Conference "Celebrating 25 years of Loop Quantum Gravity," which in 2011 commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of his landmark scientific paper about loop quantum gravity that sparked a revolution within the field of spacetime physics. His previous awards and recognitions include honorary doctoral degrees from the Université de la Méditerranée in Aix-Marseille, France, in 2010, and from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, in 2005. In addition, in 2004, he received a Forschungspreis Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He has written or co-written 290 scientific papers and written or co-edited nine scientific books. He has served on the editorial boards of all the major journals in his field.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Ashtekar was honored with the Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics, in 2018. Also in 2018, he was named an Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State. In 2016, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors accorded to U.S. scientists or engineers by their peers. Ashtekar is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. He is one of only 51 Honorary Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences drawn from the community of scientists living outside of India. He has held the Krammers Visiting Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands; a Senior Visiting Fellowship of the British Science and Engineering Research Council; and the Sir C.V. Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Science. In addition, he holds a visiting professorship at the Beijing Normal University and at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Ashtekar's research also has been described widely in popular and semi-popular media, sometimes as cover stories. Publications and media outlets that have reported on his research include Nature, Science, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, New Scientist, Fox News, MSNBC, and many other international publications and news sources. In addition, Ashtekar was featured in the 2008 German documentary Kosmos, which was prepared in celebration of German physicist Max Planck's 150th birthday. He also was featured prominently in a documentary shown at the year-long Berlin Einstein Exhibit in 2005. A YouTube video on the research carried out in his group in loop quantum cosmology has received over 400,000 views.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Ashtekar has mentored 28 doctoral students and over 78 post-doctoral scholars through his career. More than 60 of his advisees hold faculty positions all over the world, many holding prestigious chairs. Before joining the faculty at Penn State, Ashtekar held positions as professor, distinguished professor, and the Erastus Franklin Holden Professor of Physics at Syracuse University from 1984 to 1993. Previously, he was professor and held the chair of gravitation at the University of Paris VI in France.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Following his retirement from Penn State, Ashtekar is continuing to actively pursuing his research on theoretical aspects of general relativity and quantum gravity, focusing on four fundamental issues. He will be speaking at conferences and workshops, writing monographs and review articles, and continuing to serve on editorial boards of journals, such as an associate divisional editor at Physical Review Letters and an editor-in-chief at Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">George Andrews</h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Andrews has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 1964 and was named Evan Pugh University Professor of Mathematics in 1981. He served as chair of the department from 1980 to 1982 and from 1995 to 1997. During his career at Penn State, Andrews has served as thesis adviser for 27 doctoral candidates and for numerous master's degree students.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">“To say that George’s record is exceptional is an understatement,” said Mark Levi, department head and professor of mathematics. “This title allows for the continued participation in these activities. The department and the University will benefit greatly from George’s presence.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Andrews is considered to be a world pioneer in the mathematical fields of partitions and q-series, and his contributions include numerous scientific papers and several books. He is an authority on the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematical genius of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1976, Andrews rediscovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, a finding that changed the shape of modern q-series research.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Andrews has received many honors and awards. In 1982, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009, and the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Parma (Italy) in 1998, the University of Florida in 2002, The University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2004, SASTRA University (India) in 2012, and the University of Illinois 2014. In 1999, Andrews received the Centennial Award from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania "in recognition of contributions to pure mathematics and mathematics education." In 2008, he was named one of three finalists for Baylor University's Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the single largest award given to an individual for exceptional teaching.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Andrews was President of the American Mathematical Society from 2008-2010. In 2011, he was appointed to an honorary professorship at Nankai University (China). In 2013, Imperial College Press published a 1,012-page volume titled, “The Selected Works of George E. Andrews”; a second equally long volume is in preparation. He was made a member of the scientific honor society Sigma Xi in 2021. In 2020, AcademicInfluence.com named Andrews one of the 35 most influential mathematicians in the world. In 2023, Andrews received the Eular Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications for "... distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research."</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">In 1960, Andrews earned simultaneous bachelor's and master's degrees at Oregon State University. In 1964, he earned a doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After retirement, he continues a high level of engagement as an emeritus faculty member.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Andrews is participating in a research seminar this semester and has recently prepared three papers that have opened up significant new research areas. His work on these new topics is facilitated by collaboration with Peter Paule who runs major computational facilities at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC in Linz, Austria). Andrews is planning to bring Paule to Penn State for a month in summer 2023, with support from Andrews' Simons Foundation Grant. This work has greatly increased the possible applications of partition analysis to new settings, and Andrews and Paule are now beginning to pursue further aspects of this line of research.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">About the Atherton Professorship</h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">The Atherton Professorship, under the sponsorship of the Office of the Provost and the administration of the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, invites applications for membership from Evan Pugh University Professors who are retiring from the University and who wish to continue a high level of engagement as an emeritus faculty member.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Atherton Professors typically engage in the pursuit of scholarly or creative activities, leadership, or outreach in one or more of the following ways:</p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px 4.5rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Obtaining external funding to support ongoing research</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px 4.5rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Current and future publications of research papers and/or books</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px 4.5rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Leadership in learned societies and/or scholarly journals</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 40px 4.5rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Solicited lectures, performances or exhibits</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;">Selection as an Atherton Professor is for an initial term of three years with the possibility of renewal. Atherton Professors may negotiate to receive support from their units such as funding, office space or administrative support but do not retain any funding or privileges associated with their Evan Pugh University Professorship. Atherton Professors may petition the Graduate School to retain their graduate faculty status during the term of their appointment as an Atherton Professor.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="basic-story-module--updatedContainer--c13fa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; column-gap: 2vw; display: grid; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; grid-template-areas: ". . content content content content content content content content . ."; grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1316px; padding: 80px 0px 120px; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="basic-story-module--updated--abe44" style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-area: content / content / content / content;">LAST UPDATED FEBRUARY 23, 2023</div></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-47091532497353994772023-04-27T08:05:00.001-07:002023-04-27T08:05:00.137-07:00Call for nominations for the 2023 medals of the ICA<p> Call for Nominations: The Euler, Hall, Kirkman, and Stanton Medals and Honorary Fellows</p><p><br /></p><p>Until 31 December 2023, nominations are invited for the 2023 Medals of the ICA, and for</p><p>Honorary Fellowship in the ICA. A nomination for a medal or for Honorary Fellowship is to</p><p>be made by at least two nominators. Each nominator must be an Associate Fellow, Fellow, or</p><p>Honorary Fellow of the ICA. Nominees must not be members of the ICA Council as of the</p><p>closing date of nominations; nominees for the Euler, Hall, and Kirkman medals must not be</p><p>Honorary Fellows. Normally, nominees must also meet the eligibility requirements given</p><p>below, although documented career interruptions are taken into account when assessing</p><p>eligibility.</p><p>Each nomination must include a complete curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a letter of</p><p>support. The letter of support must provide details of the extent and importance of the</p><p>nominee&#39;s contributions in relation to the selection criteria, and include a summary of up to</p><p>200 words understandable to the broad membership of the ICA. Quotes from nomination</p><p>letters may be used without attribution in citations, which may appear in the Bulletin of the</p><p>ICA and in press releases.</p><p>Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial</p><p>research by Fellows of the ICA, including those who remain active in research. Normally, at</p><p>most one medal per year is awarded.</p><p>Hall Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international impact by</p><p>Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. Recipients must have earned their</p><p>doctoral degree in 2005 or later. At most two medals per year are awarded.</p><p>Kirkman Medals recognize excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA</p><p>early in their research career, as evidenced by an excellent body of published research. A</p><p>recipient of a 2023 medal must have earned their doctoral degree in 2020 or later. At most</p><p>two medals per year are awarded.</p><p>Stanton Medals honour significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of</p><p>combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring. Letters of</p><p>nomination should establish the significance, duration, and impact of the nominee&#39;s</p><p>contributions other than research. At most one medal per year is to be awarded, typically to a</p><p>Fellow of the ICA.</p><p>Honorary Fellowship recognizes an individual who has made pre-eminent contributions to</p><p>combinatorics or its applications. Nominees need not be Fellows of the ICA. The number of</p><p>living Honorary Fellows at any time shall not exceed ten.</p><p>The ICA Medals Committee (Heather Jordon (chair), Ying Miao and Kai-Uwe Schmidt)</p><p>reviews nominations. The committee makes recommendations to the ICA President and</p><p>Council, with whom the final decisions rest. The ICA President announces the medal</p><p>recipients.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please send nominations to Heather Jordon (hdj@as.org), who will acknowledge receipt and</p><p>verify that the nomination package is complete. The Medals Committee will not otherwise</p><p>comment on a nomination, whether recommended or not, except in its report to the ICA</p><p>President. Nominations that are not recommended will be considered again in each of the two</p><p>years following the submission of the nomination, provided that the eligibility criteria are still</p><p>satisfied. Short updates to nominations will be accepted, but they will not extend the three</p><p>year consideration period. A new nomination can be submitted after a gap of at least one</p><p>year.</p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-23385198926719783302023-04-20T18:29:00.004-07:002023-04-20T18:29:00.182-07:00Dr. Ziqing Xiang awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLn35inXoFK6sn2GSQNcakralK1hGokQhm3XZyzmjAq6q6VJtfyXgcAu073dEmnlDtf3A2_iDzRnREPM4ORvu95VmkBGpPMTWXoLHzg_3x1BvPvghpxFEwa9CracIm3gsTpmoV-In9LTFbIWx0goeW6P2H26IjT1MycSTyB6r0MbMHmsG9ja8pLJe/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLn35inXoFK6sn2GSQNcakralK1hGokQhm3XZyzmjAq6q6VJtfyXgcAu073dEmnlDtf3A2_iDzRnREPM4ORvu95VmkBGpPMTWXoLHzg_3x1BvPvghpxFEwa9CracIm3gsTpmoV-In9LTFbIWx0goeW6P2H26IjT1MycSTyB6r0MbMHmsG9ja8pLJe/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ziqing Xiang</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> has made
significant contributions in several areas of combinatorics, namely, design
theory, algebraic combinatorics, and graph theory. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">He also has done work in representation theory. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Combining
algebraic and number theoretic techniques with computer explorations, he has
solved numerous longstanding open problems in design theory and algebraic
combinatorics. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">For example, he solved Delsarte and Seidel’s
conjecture on a Fisher type lower bound for the size of relative <i>t</i>-wise
balanced combinatorial designs. By considering the combinatorial properties of
nontrivial tight 8-designs and developing a method to solve the related
Diophantine equation, he succeeded in proving that there are no integral points
on the curve associated with a nontrivial tight 8-design, hence proving the
nonexistence of nontrivial tight 8-designs. Ziqing and his coauthors
generalized Seymour and Zaslavsky’s result on the existence of <i>t</i>-designs
on a path-connected topological space equipped with good measure to the
existence of <i>t</i>-designs on an algebraically path-connected space equipped
with good measure. So far, h</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">e has published 9 papers in high quality general
mathematics journals as well as in top quality specialized journals in
combinatorics. He has frequently given seminar talks, and invited talks at
national and international conferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
is an international scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph
Stanton; the ICA was established for the purpose of promoting the development
of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in
combinatorics and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-65802767522498502412023-04-13T18:28:00.004-07:002023-04-13T18:28:00.173-07:00 Dr. Melissa Huggan awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGc9UyimExmPm2i6m6XcAxWMeoYdXjgdFQvTm47HljeuIoEJHb7jOxl90PmN6DMed71q7FzN9RTPhfaf3i2gs0LnXfz2jDGKJ4boGpExASoI3i8JaJ2SfC1i_mpXBSnJBNHGDl8wymvnTKFSOBrlEHQpGV0pW2oRG60_G44PnnGvnkVdYJXs8N6Z4/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGc9UyimExmPm2i6m6XcAxWMeoYdXjgdFQvTm47HljeuIoEJHb7jOxl90PmN6DMed71q7FzN9RTPhfaf3i2gs0LnXfz2jDGKJ4boGpExASoI3i8JaJ2SfC1i_mpXBSnJBNHGDl8wymvnTKFSOBrlEHQpGV0pW2oRG60_G44PnnGvnkVdYJXs8N6Z4/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For immediate release Contact:
</b>Sarah Holliday<br />
March 9, 2023<b> </b>Secretary
of the ICA<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:sarah.holliday@gmail.com">sarah.holliday@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>url:</b> the-ica.org<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Melissa
Huggan awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA</span><br />
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excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA early in their
research career, as evidenced by an <b>excellent
body of published research</b>.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Melissa Huggan</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 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 combinatorics including graph theory and design theory. She has published her research since her
undergraduate degree in mathematics and has twenty published articles in
refereed journals. In her PhD research
she began developing a theory of combinatorial games that include economic
properties: simultaneous play and scoring. At the same time, she made
significant contributions to standard CGT including tests for determining when
a game is a number, complexity analyses and reduced canonical form. In her
post-doctoral research, Dr. Huggan included Pursuit-Evasion games in her
research program. Throughout her research she has developed a particular
expertise of the mathematics of games and combinatorial designs, solving
tic-tac-toe on triple systems, solving in special cases and determining the
complexity of an independent set game on designs and graphs and extending
pursuit-evasion games to designs. Additionally, she is a leader in her
profession, distinguishing herself in organizing conferences, mathematical
outreach and teaching excellence. <br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an international scholarly
society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph Stanton; the ICA was established for
the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics and of encouraging
publications and conferences in combinatorics and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span> </p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-45939971129462222012023-04-06T18:27:00.006-07:002023-04-06T18:27:00.147-07:00Dr. Pablo Spiga awarded the 2022 Hall Medal of the ICA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVl1QFYfFtrnGJoBtOBfRkZRB28haVhrQf4xDdhiEPacxz4GsHGk3yLlXAUx7FJvYbrBXT1MTjgwJ9_4zDk3W72D7LT6pJwkj1u1NXtLS0AiK9xn1nhcNrMKdAmwLv4xc6lfFkbszdYJn1ufpi4LPn4In0ILea7gWvan4HXTcNCGwkgAu5nKTRZ6w/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVl1QFYfFtrnGJoBtOBfRkZRB28haVhrQf4xDdhiEPacxz4GsHGk3yLlXAUx7FJvYbrBXT1MTjgwJ9_4zDk3W72D7LT6pJwkj1u1NXtLS0AiK9xn1nhcNrMKdAmwLv4xc6lfFkbszdYJn1ufpi4LPn4In0ILea7gWvan4HXTcNCGwkgAu5nKTRZ6w/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For immediate release<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Contact:
</b>Sarah Holliday<br />
March 9, 2023<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></b>Secretary
of the ICA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email: </b><a href="mailto:sarah.holliday@gmail.com">sarah.holliday@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">url:</b> the-ica.org<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Pablo
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hall Medals</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> recognize <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">extensive quality research with substantial
international impact</b> by Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pablo Spiga </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">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
semigroup theory. Since graduating with his PhD from Queen Mary University of
London in 2004, he has published an astonishing 125 journal articles with two
research monographs in the pipeline. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pablo Spiga is well known for his work on graph
symmetry, for example, his proof of the Babai-Godsil conjecture, and the
Potocnik-Spiga-Verret (PSV) conjecture that local semiprimitivity is the
precise property to guarantee restrictions on the vertex stabiliser for
vertex-transitive graphs. Pablo’s work is breath-takingly innovative, yielding
unexpected results. For example, apart from natural exceptions, every element
of every finite primitive permutation group has at least one regular cycle.
Many of Pablo’s results were motivated from other areas: his work on
irreducible linear groups led to his astonishing result that no primitive
permutation group has as many as three subdegrees with each pair coprime. His
classification of finite primitive permutation groups containing elements with
few cycles was directly applied to bound the normal covering numbers of
symmetric groups, and his proof of Cherlin's conjecture for primitive binary
groups concerns the complexity of a relational structure in model theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
is an international scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph
Stanton; the ICA was established for the purpose of promoting the development
of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in
combinatorics and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-89721127784553171812023-03-30T18:26:00.007-07:002023-03-30T18:26:00.161-07:00Dr. Jan De Beule awarded the 2022 Hall Medal of the ICA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV6IUQGmM6TDSab-ePQYewHLNRgU7x725jzNZFYeFRgrdb5fM8O1yz0-wToxU4W-u8ZIXfdZ_XmuLFWoZIvtA_gvCvV3t3WCoicIefWafOtMGP2CnFvBsV9mOy9ofye7nCOpgIxGXMuoOtXOu61VerlEOlLBf6CBhBfkAXoIDDNIE6SVBX82ukSsAR/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV6IUQGmM6TDSab-ePQYewHLNRgU7x725jzNZFYeFRgrdb5fM8O1yz0-wToxU4W-u8ZIXfdZ_XmuLFWoZIvtA_gvCvV3t3WCoicIefWafOtMGP2CnFvBsV9mOy9ofye7nCOpgIxGXMuoOtXOu61VerlEOlLBf6CBhBfkAXoIDDNIE6SVBX82ukSsAR/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For immediate release<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Contact:
</b>Sarah Holliday<br />
March 9, 2023<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></b>Secretary
of the ICA<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email: </b><a href="mailto:sarah.holliday@gmail.com">sarah.holliday@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">url:</b> the-ica.org<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Jan De
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hall Medals</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> recognize <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">extensive quality research with substantial
international impact</b> by Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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De Beule</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">
obtained a PhD in Mathematics at Ghent University, Belgium in 2004. He had
positions as postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, at the Research
Foundation Flanders in Belgium, and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB),
Belgium. Since 2020, he is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His research field concerns
finite projective spaces, their substructures, their applications in coding
theory, and computer algebra. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is a co-author of over 40 publications in international mathematics journals,
one chapter in a book, 3 conference proceedings and was co-editor for 3 edited
works. He is co-editor of the book: <i>Current</i> <i>research topics in Galois
geometry </i>(NOVA Sci. Publ.), which was specifically written to stimulate
research on Galois Geometry. The topics on which he has contributed vary from
blocking sets in finite projective spaces and in finite classical polar spaces,
partial ovoids and partial spreads in finite classical polar spaces,
Cameron-Liebler sets in finite projective spaces, minihypers in finite
projective spaces and linear codes meeting the Griesmer bound, to arcs and
linear MDS codes, and degree 2 Boolean functions on Grassmann graphs. His most
important results include: (1) the non-existence of maximal partial ovoids of
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"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>h</m:r></span></i></m:sup></m:sSup></m:oMath><![endif]--><!--[if !msEquation]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-text-raise: -3.0pt; position: relative; top: 3pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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> </i>1, (2) the determination of the size of the largest partial spreads in
the Hermitian variety </span><!--[if gte msEquation 12]><m:oMath><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>H</m:r><m:r>(5,
</m:r></span></i><m:sSup><m:sSupPr><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:"Cambria Math";mso-hansi-font-family:"Cambria Math";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><m:ctrlPr></m:ctrlPr></span></m:sSupPr><m:e><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>q</m:r></span></i></m:e><m:sup><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>2</m:r></span></i></m:sup></m:sSup><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>)</m:r></span></i></m:oMath><![endif]--><!--[if !msEquation]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-text-raise: -3.0pt; position: relative; top: 3pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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the MDS conjecture with S. Ball and on other related problems on linear MDS
codes, and (4) a new infinite family of Cameron-Liebler line classes in PG(<i>3,q</i>)<i>,
q </i></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">º</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 5</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (mod 12) or <i>q</i>
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">º</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 9 (mod 12), with
parameter </span><!--[if gte msEquation 12]><m:oMath><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>x</m:r><m:r>=(</m:r></span></i><m:sSup><m:sSupPr><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ascii-font-family:"Cambria Math";
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style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>q</m:r></span></i></m:e><m:sup><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>2</m:r></span></i></m:sup></m:sSup><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria Math",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><m:r>-</m:r><m:r>1)</m:r></span></i></m:oMath><![endif]--><!--[if !msEquation]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-text-raise: -3.0pt; position: relative; top: 3pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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applied to obtain these results include geometrical and polynomial techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
is an international scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph
Stanton; the ICA was established for the purpose of promoting the development
of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in
combinatorics and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br />The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-52049890531571060382023-03-23T18:25:00.007-07:002023-03-23T18:25:00.191-07:00Dr. George Andrews awarded the 2022 Euler Medal of the ICA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzjxkDymfhKDl5WfOXGnNF6wAP8U12FatTLsfOUVa6EFn3L9CIESjeYkVC0Xz76dX1t7ZCTnHqZLoctzTC0taImHGF2TXY-x6XOj4QeFPNYBS5T1KcFmxjEy_qazGj1wUP_kxCbj3N9xDsqC3GAPxMmuqMO2OUSbTNBny_cVnF9G0dFgmQDFLg1Ni/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzjxkDymfhKDl5WfOXGnNF6wAP8U12FatTLsfOUVa6EFn3L9CIESjeYkVC0Xz76dX1t7ZCTnHqZLoctzTC0taImHGF2TXY-x6XOj4QeFPNYBS5T1KcFmxjEy_qazGj1wUP_kxCbj3N9xDsqC3GAPxMmuqMO2OUSbTNBny_cVnF9G0dFgmQDFLg1Ni/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For immediate release<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Contact:
</b>Sarah Holliday<br />
March 9, 2023<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></b>Secretary
of the ICA<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email: </b><a href="mailto:sarah.holliday@gmail.com">sarah.holliday@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">url:</b> the-ica.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. George
Andrews awarded the 2022 Euler Medal of the ICA</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Euler Medals</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> recognize <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">distinguished lifetime career contributions</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to combinatorial research</b> by Fellows
of the ICA, including those who remain active in research.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">George E. Andrews</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 and since
then has been a fixture at The Pennsylvania State University. He has devoted
much of his mathematical career to the study of various kinds of combinatorial
mathematics, especially the theory of partitions and related areas. This
includes multiple textbooks, and for example providing the first “crank” that
provided a combinatorial interpretation of why for some <i>n</i> the number of
partitions of <i>n</i> is a multiple of some integer. George has authored over
350 publications with almost 100 in various areas of combinatorics, mostly on
partitions or other areas of enumerative combinatorics, such as <i>q</i>-series.
George is also known for his work in number theory, and the multi-volume study
with Bruce Bernd on Ramanujan’s “Lost Notebook” that he uncovered in 1976.
Beyond that, George has contributed to mathematics by: advising 25 Ph.D.
students; being President of the American Mathematical Society; serving on 10
editorial boards; promoting mathematical awareness; and editing the collected
papers of MacMahon. Previous honours include Fellowships of prestigious
societies and 5 honorary doctorates. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
is an international scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph
Stanton; the ICA was established for the purpose of promoting the development
of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics
and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-35605149738022800582023-03-16T18:22:00.004-07:002023-03-16T18:22:00.183-07:00Dr. Doug Stinson awarded the 2022 Stanton Medal of the ICA<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgh7uSZfoqYhR8rhe0hBXgswQascchUvOFuhcxNwul_EUCATRF0K90I3Q9LV7hnA8BpfG5R46a_Oq0B0njrBxScV6UsXs_BUUQcR2GRHupVQ7xD5zcTJkwaWXGOzHQOWaf2vHzt76FWu1B2GaFB1073NeATgdJrZ8n5dZXl3rJ44iqvpLNHUbsLU-I/s719/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="719" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgh7uSZfoqYhR8rhe0hBXgswQascchUvOFuhcxNwul_EUCATRF0K90I3Q9LV7hnA8BpfG5R46a_Oq0B0njrBxScV6UsXs_BUUQcR2GRHupVQ7xD5zcTJkwaWXGOzHQOWaf2vHzt76FWu1B2GaFB1073NeATgdJrZ8n5dZXl3rJ44iqvpLNHUbsLU-I/s320/logo_ica_letterhead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For immediate release<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Contact:
</b>Sarah Holliday<br />
March 9, 2023<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></b>Secretary
of the ICA<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email: </b><a href="mailto:sarah.holliday@gmail.com">sarah.holliday@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">url:</b> the-ica.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Doug
Stinson awarded the 2022 Stanton Medal of the ICA</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stanton Medals</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> honour <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">significant lifetime contributions to
promoting the discipline of combinatorics</b> through advocacy, outreach,
service, teaching and/or mentoring.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Doug Stinson</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> has served as a
faculty member for nearly 39 years: 10 years with Ralph Stanton at the
University of Manitoba, 8 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and 20
years at the University of Waterloo. He continues with a phenomenal research
career, having published nearly 400 papers, including many seminal papers. But
most relevant for this award is that he has given countless hours in support of
combinatorics through outreach, service, and mentoring. He is known most widely
as a textbook author/coauthor including books on combinatorial designs,
combinatorial algorithms, and cryptography (the latter in its 4th edition). He
was one of the founders of the Journal of Combinatorial Designs and
co-editor-in-chief for five years. He served for 6 years as President of the
ICA, overseeing the transition after the death of Ralph Stanton. He has also
been a mentor to 17 PhD students, 16 Masters students, and 12 postdoctoral
fellows. Previous honours include the Hall Medal from the ICA and Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada. For his many contributions to our community, the award
of the Stanton Medal is a fitting tribute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an international
scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph Stanton; the ICA was
established for the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics and
of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its
applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-1757630203014367962023-03-09T11:19:00.007-08:002023-03-09T11:19:53.218-08:00Notes from the ICA Meeting that was not the AGM<p> Mission of the ICA</p><div style="text-align: left;">• The ICA was established in 1990 by Ralph Stanton for the purpose of promoting the development<br />of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its<br />applications.<br />• The three most important functions of the ICA are:<br />• publishing the Bulletin of the ICA<br />• supporting conferences, and<br />• awarding medals and honorary fellowships</div><p><br /></p><p>AGM will be during: </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLwscK5oOMJtIPY8fdCQ4RKGZT6B-a_j-iqOm0UZBj3ssGhLL5IEBur99XfawibM4uw4cAbsPKVKeorYil3yEigrcHjPnSnLXgPTEEAgVOE2zM58uMUtEoAHgmwbmbChBXJx0yBuSIlP2y8jZrFb6RPgyiY50AGt-KENwgUPGcoiFytM4U9p0CM4Yk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="1514" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLwscK5oOMJtIPY8fdCQ4RKGZT6B-a_j-iqOm0UZBj3ssGhLL5IEBur99XfawibM4uw4cAbsPKVKeorYil3yEigrcHjPnSnLXgPTEEAgVOE2zM58uMUtEoAHgmwbmbChBXJx0yBuSIlP2y8jZrFb6RPgyiY50AGt-KENwgUPGcoiFytM4U9p0CM4Yk" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks to the BICA crew: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Editors in chief</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Marco BURATTI, Università degli Studi di Perugia (Italy)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Donald KREHER, Michigan Technological University (USA)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Ortrud OELLERMANN, University of Winnipeg (Canada)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Tran VAN TRUNG, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Editorial Board</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Darryn BRYANT, University of Queensland (Australia)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Peter DUKES, University of Victoria (Canada)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Tao FENG, Zhejiang University (China)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Genniani GE, School of Mathematical Sciences Capital Normal University (Beijing)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Catherine GREENHILL, University of New South Wales (Australia)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Ronald GOULD, Emory University (USA)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Masaaki HARADA, Tohoku University (Japan)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Michael HENNING, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Daniel HORSLEY, Monash University (Australia)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Gyula O.H. KATONA, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Hungary)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Klavdija KUTNAR, University of Primorska (Slovenia)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• William MARTIN, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Alfred MENEZES, University of Waterloo (Canada)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Ying MIAO, University of Tsukuba (Japan)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Koji MOMIHARA, Kumamoto University (Japan)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Daniel PANARIO, Carleton University (Canada)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Patric OSTERGARD, Aalto University (Finland)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Olga POLVERINO, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Chris RODGER, Auburn University (USA)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Kai-Uwe SCHMIDT, Universitat Paderborn (Germany)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Jeroen SCHILLEWAERT, University of Auckland (New Zealand)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Geertrui VAN DE VOORDE, University of Canterbury (New Zeland)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Ian WANLESS, Monash University (Australia)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Medal Winners!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Until 31 December 2022, nominations are invited for the 2022 Medals of the ICA, and for</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Honorary Fellowship in the ICA. A nomination for a medal or for Honorary Fellowship is to be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">made by at least two nominators. Each nominator must be an Associate Fellow, Fellow, or</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Honorary Fellow of the ICA. Nominees must not be members of the ICA Council as of the closing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">date of nominations; nominees for the Euler, Hall, and Kirkman medals must not be Honorary</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fellows. Normally, nominees must also meet the eligibility requirements given below, although</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">documented career interruptions are taken into account when assessing eligibility.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Each nomination must include a complete curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a letter of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">support. The letter of support must provide details of the extent and importance of the nominee's</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">contributions in relation to the selection criteria, and include a summary of up to 200 words</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">understandable to the broad membership of the ICA. Quotes from nomination letters may be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">used without attribution in citations, which may appear in the Bulletin of the ICA and in press</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">releases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2022 winners!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Kirkman Medals recognize excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA early in</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">their research career, as evidenced by an excellent body of published research.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Melissa Huggan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Ziqing Xiang</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Hall Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international impact by Fellows</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">of the ICA in mid-career.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Jan De Beule</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Pablo Spiga</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research by</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fellows of the ICA, including those who remain active in research.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• George E. Andrews</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Stanton Medals honour significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">• Doug Stinson</div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p>BUY A T-SHIRT</p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-65995750047017057762023-03-02T04:07:00.001-08:002023-03-09T04:09:02.671-08:00Conference announcement: FQ15 June 19-23, 2023 Aubervilliers, France<p> https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/</p><h1 style="color: #1f85de; text-align: center;">International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications 2023 (Fq15)</h1><p style="color: #1f85de; margin: 1em;">The conference <span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq15</span> will take place at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France (on line 12 of the Paris metro, at one station from the limit of Paris) during the week of June 19-23, 2023. Paris 8 University is a founding member of the <a href="https://www.univ-paris8.fr/Le-Campus-Condorcet">Campus Condorcet Paris-Aubervilliers</a>.</p><p style="color: #1f85de; margin: 1em;"><span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq15</span> will continue the 30-year-old tradition of a forum for researchers on the mathematical aspects of finite fields and their applications. Previous editions of the <span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq</span> conference could be found <a href="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/previous.html">here</a>.</p><h2 style="color: #1f85de; text-align: center;">Scientific Scope</h2><p style="color: #1f85de; margin: 1em;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</p><ul style="color: #1f85de;"><li>Theory:<ul><li>structure of finite fields,</li><li>primitive elements,</li><li>normal bases,</li><li>polynomials,</li><li>number-theoretic aspects of finite fields,</li><li>character sums,</li><li>function fields,</li><li>planar functions and almost perfect nonlinear functions,</li><li>equations over finite fields.</li></ul></li><li>Computation:<ul><li>algorithms and complexity,</li><li>polynomial factorization, decomposition, and irreducibility testing,</li><li>sequences and functions.</li></ul></li><li>Applications:<ul><li>algebraic coding theory,</li><li>cryptography,</li><li>algebraic geometry over finite fields,</li><li>finite incidence geometry,</li><li>designs,</li><li>combinatorics,</li><li>quantum information science,</li><li>Boolean functions.</li></ul></li></ul><h2 style="color: #1f85de; text-align: center;">Call for Papers</h2><p style="color: #1f85de; margin: 1em;">All participants who wish to contribute a 20-minute talk are invited to submit an abstract of their contribution, according to the instructions on the <a href="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/submission.html">Submission page</a>.</p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-77803035292193470052023-02-23T08:18:00.047-08:002023-03-04T08:42:24.676-08:00In memoriam Curt Lindner<p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgghxx4D71srGAo3b7v71F2dkAoTRcewg9KCqxsJPigFtsLeKy34DcZmj0GOt11vU3X4QuOe5naIo-2rRvbsC80Dvtn1-H0xMm2N8FshrFCCmOxA-IsheCwkp00QduSjdRmjeaXO8r0S8Z9H6LbfQm9pH1TdF4y4rTJiNLIT6cZLOt_MN5hswLeqkb/s1600/20170308_201825.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgghxx4D71srGAo3b7v71F2dkAoTRcewg9KCqxsJPigFtsLeKy34DcZmj0GOt11vU3X4QuOe5naIo-2rRvbsC80Dvtn1-H0xMm2N8FshrFCCmOxA-IsheCwkp00QduSjdRmjeaXO8r0S8Z9H6LbfQm9pH1TdF4y4rTJiNLIT6cZLOt_MN5hswLeqkb/s320/20170308_201825.jpeg" width="320" /><br /></a>Curt with son Curt Jr at the 2017 SEICCGTC after receiving the 2013 Euler Medal</p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 18px;">Charles Curtis Lindner of Auburn, Alabama, was born on July 21, 1938, in Tampa, Florida, and passed peacefully into Heaven on February 21, 2023. He was 84 years old.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Mr. Lindner was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. He graduated from Decatur High School in 1956, and Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina in 1960 where he ran track. He earned Masters and PhD from Emory University in 1969, with d</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">issertation "Some Embedding Theorems for Partial Latin Squares" under a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">dvisor Trevor Evans.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Curtis proudly served in the United States Army and the United States Army Reserve from 1956 until 1964.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">He married Ann Richards on March 10, 1961.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">Curtis worked as a professor at Auburn University from 1969, achieving the status of Distinguished University Professor. He was also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">Honorary Professor, University of Queensland from 1994 and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">Honorary Professor of Combinatorics Universita di Catania from 2004.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #404f57;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404f57;">He is survived by sons, Charles Timothy Lindner, Curtis William Lindner, and James Richards Lindner (Cheri); grandsons, Alex Reece Lindner, and Nicholas James Lindner.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2013 Euler Medal award to Charles C. (Curt) Lindner </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Forty-five years ago, Curt Lindner surprised the combinatorial community by finding a small embedding for partial Steiner triple systems, turning a complex mystery into a simple truth. Ever since, in over 200 refereed journal papers and through numerous invited and keynote lectures, he has made apparently complex problems much more approachable. His research began with embedding problems, but now encompasses a broad sweep across combinatorial design theory, especially cycle systems and graph designs. Curt has mentored more than 20 PhD students, and collaborated extensively with international colleagues. As his nominators say, “Curt is a catalyst” with his “captivating way of encouraging others to join him in mathematical exploration.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research by Fellows of the ICA who are still active in research. Normally, at most one medal per year is awarded.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-14331575627625304922023-02-16T08:17:00.002-08:002023-03-04T08:17:51.946-08:00Conference announcement: 54th SEICCGTC 2023<p> http://www.math.fau.edu/combinatorics/</p><h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">54th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing</h1><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">March 6-10, 2023</h2><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Fifty-fourth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (SEICCGTC) will be held March 6-10, 2023 in the <a href="http://www.fau.edu/studentunion/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; text-decoration-line: none;">Student Union</a> at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. The main campus is located three miles from the Atlantic Ocean, on an 850-acre site in Boca Raton, south of Palm Beach and north of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The climate is subtropical with an average temperature of 75 degrees.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">This years 54th conference will be a fully in-person conference held on our beautiful campus in lovely Boca Raton, Florida! </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">Invited speakers at this year's 54th SEICCGTC: </h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">Edinah Gnang, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ron Gould, Emory University, Georgia, USA<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Natasha Morrison, University of Victoria, Canada<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA</h3></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-48331024093415002782023-02-09T08:16:00.001-08:002023-03-04T08:16:59.003-08:00Conference announcement: Canadam 2032<p> <i style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Le français suit.</i></p><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">We apologize for any cross-posting.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CanaDAM 2023 announcement and call for participation.</b><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">The next biennial CanaDAM Conference will take place June 5--8, 2023 in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. This will be an in-person meeting hosted jointly by the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">Conference website: </span><a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.canadam.ca%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cshollid4%40KENNESAW.EDU%7Cb87b05efb952448f1a4e08daf32489dd%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638089635513916469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4FpYqVm5A3ukGZH7lEkTwuPwZCGxNysvmfEEtqHHRAw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.canadam.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="JqRwqWaTQPnA7DgHNpdwusBVTDpK3FoBX8K9TVYKYdJhtRKsXrxemHbI0djWgyuVWtd+ymwDeVxAZMKk86zKAyqCXbNN4qmDY6yn+hJQnfGm33EStGAHHPwEhwOvn65nVsMYl2vxH/QbIvl+WBtsjcYlZ74f8QjrVHHXA70rreg=" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://www.canadam.ca/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">https://www.canadam.ca/</a><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">The general topic of the conference is the theory and application of discrete structures. Its goal is to highlight the most salient trends in the field. The conference will bring together researchers from the various disciplines with which discrete and algorithmic mathematics interact. Particular areas of interest include graphs and digraphs, hypergraphs, matroids, ordered sets, designs, coding theory, enumeration, combinatorics of words, discrete optimization, discrete and computational geometry, lattice point enumeration, combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity, and applications of discrete and algorithmic mathematics, including (but not limited to) web graphs, computational biology, telecommunication networks, and information processing.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">The conference will follow its usual format. There will be eight plenary talks, one public interest talk, invited mini-symposia, as well as contributed mini-symposia and talks. </span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Invited Plenary Speakers are:</b><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><ul class="x_MailOutline" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li><b>Nima Anari</b>, Stanford University</li><li><b>Simina Brânzei,</b> Purdue University</li><li><b>Penny Haxell</b>, University of Waterloo</li><li><b>Ferdinand Ihringer</b>, Universiteit Gent</li><li><b>Jennifer Morse</b>, University of Virginia </li><li><b>Igor Pak</b>, University of California Los Angeles</li><li><b>Alexey Pokrovskiy</b>, University College London</li><li><b>Laura Sanita</b>, Eindhoven University of Technology</li></ul><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">The invited </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Public Interest Lecture</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> will be given by </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Laura Albert</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">, University of Wisconsin.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A preliminary list of invited minisymposia:</b><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Algorithmic Game Theory</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Simina Brânzei and Ruta Mehta)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Combinatorics and Algebra </b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Alexey Pokrovskiy)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Design Theory and Coding Theory</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Thaís Bardini Idalino, Jonathan Jedwab and Shuxing Li)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Discrete Mathematics in Quantum information Processing </b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Markus Grassl and Petr Lisonek)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Emerging Tools and Applications of Mixed-Integer Optimization </b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Sonia Cafieri)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Felix Joos)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Generalizations of the Chromatic Polynomial</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Farid Aliniaeifard and Steph van Willigenburg)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Geometric Combinatorics</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Amzi Jeffs)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Random matrix theory and connections</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Vishesh Jain)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Random Structures and Random Processes</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Jane (Pu) Gao and Xavier Pérez Giménez)</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Structural Graph Theory</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Sang-il Oum and Sebastian Wiederrecht) </span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">Members of the Discrete Mathematics community are encouraged to submit additional contributed minisymposia or contributed talks, consistent with the conference theme, for consideration in the conference program.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Registration</b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-size: 15px;">: Please register through the registration link on the conference web page. The early registration deadline is April 4, 2023. </span><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li>Early registration fee (until April 4): $300; Students and post-docs: $100</li><li>Regular registration fee (after April 4): $400; Students and post-docs: $200.</li></ul><br aria-hidden="true" /><b>Contributed Minisymposium</b>: If you wish to propose a minisymposium (MS) that you are willing to organize, a mechanism will be available on the conference web page. These, and all abstracts for contributed talks, will be reviewed by the program committee. All MS and contributed talks will be 20 minutes in length with five additional minutes for questions.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /><b>Deadlines</b>:<br aria-hidden="true" /><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li>Titles and abstracts of Invited Talks: Feb 10, 2023 (notification Feb 24, 2023)</li><li>Titles and abstracts of Invited MS: Feb 10, 2023 (notification Feb 24, 2023)</li><li>Contributed MS proposals, including lists of all speakers: Feb 17, 2023</li><li>Titles and abstracts from all speakers for proposed MS: Feb 24, 2023 (notification March 10, 2023)</li><li>Titles and abstracts of Contributed Talks: Feb 24, 2023 (notification March 10, 2023)</li></ul></div><br aria-hidden="true" /><b>Conference venues</b> will be downtown Winnipeg with plenary talks at the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre on 281 Donald Street and all other talks at the University of Winnipeg. <br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /><b>Special events</b> will include: a welcoming reception (Monday), a public lecture reception (Wednesday), a networking luncheon for those identifying as women, a networking dinner for students and post-doctoral fellows.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /><b>Funding</b>: Students and post-doctoral fellows may apply for funding. 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width: 759.6px;"><div class="titleBar" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 759.6px;"><img id="logo" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/logo.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 379.8px;" /><img src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/paris.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" /></div><h1 style="text-align: center;">International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications 2023 (Fq15)</h1><p style="margin: 1em;">The conference <span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq15</span> will take place at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France (on line 12 of the Paris metro, at one station from the limit of Paris) during the week of June 19-23, 2023.</p><p style="margin: 1em;"><span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq15</span> will continue the 30-year-old tradition of a forum for researchers on the mathematical aspects of finite fields and their applications. Previous editions of the <span class="emph" style="font-weight: bold;">Fq</span> conference could be found <a href="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/previous.html">here</a>.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;">Scientific Scope</h2><p style="margin: 1em;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</p><ul><li>Theory:<ul><li>structure of finite fields,</li><li>primitive elements,</li><li>normal bases,</li><li>polynomials,</li><li>number-theoretic aspects of finite fields,</li><li>character sums,</li><li>function fields,</li><li>planar functions and almost perfect nonlinear functions,</li><li>equations over finite fields.</li></ul></li><li>Computation:<ul><li>algorithms and complexity,</li><li>polynomial factorization, decomposition, and irreducibility testing,</li><li>sequences and functions.</li></ul></li><li>Applications:<ul><li>algebraic coding theory,</li><li>cryptography,</li><li>algebraic geometry over finite fields,</li><li>finite incidence geometry,</li><li>designs,</li><li>combinatorics,</li><li>quantum information science,</li><li>Boolean functions.</li></ul></li></ul><h2 style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</h2><p style="margin: 1em;">All participants who wish to contribute a 20-minute talk are invited to submit an abstract of their contribution, according to the instructions on the <a href="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/submission.html">Submission page</a>.</p><div id="logoDiv" style="display: flex; justify-content: space-between; padding: 1em 2em;"><img alt="Logo of GDR" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/Logo_GDR_JC2A.jpg" style="object-fit: contain; width: 121.725px;" /><img alt="Logo of LAGA" id="lagalogo" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/thumbnail_logo_laga.png" style="object-fit: contain; width: 69.55px;" /><img alt="Logo of University of Paris VIII" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/thumbnail_uni-paris-8-logo.png" style="object-fit: contain; width: 121.725px;" /><img alt="Logo of Springer" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/thumbnail_Springer.jpg" style="object-fit: contain; width: 121.725px;" /><img alt="Logo of Elsevier" src="https://org.uib.no/selmer/fq15/thumbnail_elsevier_logo_icon_171184.png" style="object-fit: contain; width: 121.725px;" /></div></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-45098568090119757532023-01-26T13:29:00.001-08:002023-02-11T13:30:02.327-08:00Conference Announcement: 45th Australasian Combinatorics Conference 11th - 15th December 2023, at The University of Western Australia<p> https://45acc.github.io/</p><p><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242e2b; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-feature-settings: "dlig", "liga", "lnum", "kern"; font-size: 2.35294rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.382343rem; padding: 0.617657rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">45ACC</h1><h3 id="about" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242e2b; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-feature-settings: "dlig", "liga", "lnum", "kern"; font-size: 1.76471rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.161755rem; padding: 0.838245rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About</h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #384743; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: "kern", "onum", "liga"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.44117rem; padding: 0.558834rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ACC is the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA). It covers all areas of combinatorics in mathematics and computer science. This conference was previously known as ACCMCC (Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing), and the name was changed to ACC from 2020 onwards following a recommendation of the CMSA. Past and future editions of ACCMCC/ACC can be found <a href="http://combinatorics-australasia.org/conferences.html" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 50%, rgb(5, 191, 133) 50%); background-position: 0px 93%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 100% 0.15rem; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #05bf85; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.1rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.1rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15rem 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>. The 45th ACC will be hosted by <a href="https://www.uwa.edu.au/" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 50%, rgb(5, 191, 133) 50%); background-position: 0px 93%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 100% 0.15rem; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #05bf85; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.1rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.1rem 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15rem 0px; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The University of Western Australia</a>, Perth, Australia, 11-15 December 2023. It will be an in-person, face-to-face, conference.</p><h3 id="invited-speakers" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242e2b; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-feature-settings: "dlig", "liga", "lnum", "kern"; font-size: 1.76471rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.161755rem; padding: 0.838245rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Invited speakers</h3><h3 id="key-dates" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242e2b; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-feature-settings: "dlig", "liga", "lnum", "kern"; font-size: 1.76471rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.161755rem; padding: 0.838245rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Key dates</h3><h3 id="organising-committee" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 30px 0px 5px; text-align: center;">The 32<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: smaller; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">nd</span> Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing</h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 30px 0px 5px; text-align: center;">May 13-14, 2023</h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 30px 0px 5px; text-align: center;">Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN</h3><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"></section><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing is an annual conference that brings together internationally known researchers, industrial mathematicians and computer scientists, and southeastern university and college professors, post-docs, graduates and undergraduate students, to discuss the latest advances in discrete mathematics and computer science. Efforts are made to include faculty and students from smaller institutions throughout the region. Each year, a different university in the Cumberland region hosts the conference, usually in the month of May, immediately after the end of the spring semester.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This year, Middle Tennessee State University is pleased to host the Thirty-Second Cumberland Conference on May 13-14, 2023. 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color: var(--cms-region--primary-black);">(</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">University of West Bohemia)</span></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></section></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="jp" height="231" src="https://www.mtsu.edu/cumberland2023/jinYoungPark.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="jp" width="231" /></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/jinyoungpark" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jinyoung Park</span></a></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(New York University)</span></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></section></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Luke Postle</a></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;">(University of Waterloo)</section></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><p class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--cms-region--primary-black);"><img alt="Yufei Zhao" height="231" src="https://www.mtsu.edu/cumberland2023/yufeiZhao.png.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="Yufei Zhao" width="231" /></span></p><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><a href="https://yufeizhao.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Yufei Zhao</a></div><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> </p><h5 class="color_button back_mtsu_blue" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Organizing Committee: </h5><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"></section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://math.vanderbilt.edu/ellingmn/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Mark Ellingham</a>, Vanderbilt University</section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mtsu.edu/faculty/john-charles-saunders" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">John C. Saunders</a>, Middle Tennessee State University</section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mtsu.edu/faculty/david-chris-stephens" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Chris Stephens</a>, Middle Tennessee State University</section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mtsu.edu/faculty/dongye/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Dong Ye</a>, Middle Tennessee State University</section><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mtsu.edu/faculty/xiaoya-zha" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c9; cursor: pointer;">Xiaoya Zha</a>, Middle Tennessee State University</section><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Sponsors: </h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">Last Updated: Jan 23, 2023</a></div></div></div></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-53308937191502352672023-01-12T09:24:00.001-08:002023-02-06T09:25:11.611-08:00Conference Announcement: GallianFest July 31–August 4, 2023.<p> </p><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This conference is to honor</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe Gallian</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> and 45 years of the Duluth REU and will be in the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, U.S.A. July 31–August 4, 2023.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Invited speakers are:</span><br aria-hidden="true" />Manjul Bhargava (Princeton)<br aria-hidden="true" />Samit Dasgupta (Duke)<br aria-hidden="true" />Colin Defant (MIT)<br aria-hidden="true" />Ellen Eischen (Oregon)<br aria-hidden="true" />Jacob Fox (Stanford)*<br aria-hidden="true" />Elena Fuchs (UC Davis)*<br aria-hidden="true" />Maria Monks Gillespie (Colorado State)<br aria-hidden="true" />Patricia Hersh (Oregon)<br aria-hidden="true" />Wei Ho (Michigan)<br aria-hidden="true" />Daniel Kane (UCSD)<br aria-hidden="true" />Nathan Kaplan (UC Irvine)<br aria-hidden="true" />Kiran Kedlaya (UC San Diego)<br aria-hidden="true" />Gaku Liu (Washington)<br aria-hidden="true" />Dave Witte Morris (Lethbridge)<br aria-hidden="true" />Bjorn Poonen (MIT)<br aria-hidden="true" />Lauren Williams (Harvard)<br aria-hidden="true" />Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard)<br aria-hidden="true" />Lynnelle Ye (Stanford)<br aria-hidden="true" />Yufei Zhao (MIT)<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" />(*) to be confirmed<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" />For up-to-date information check <a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="2" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fd.umn.edu%2Fgallianfest%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cshollid4%40kennesaw.edu%7C10c17d056ee84710be2b08db0621ced8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638110514530055772%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Nzput%2BuShmSj5ozmZiCvGzdZEomN8TM8opuzlbNJoVg%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/gallianfest/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="GGqC23xrExoFwgWIQErgClBXMp0vl8rtjVZyBI/GxncCTPbubN9i2DVb3BBlVDsX7PK1PH5xHF5YeXTI5vS7kke3JmhrwtgdWWI2JKFhzS1D9dxboXgZel1B+mjY9YYtVWLR9JgffqN4mFB7Xt+qy/FKMwwXFrmH2AAJZ48R6e0=" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/gallianfest/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">sites.google.com/d.umn.edu/gallianfest/</a><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div><br /></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-78132797520081123862023-01-05T08:16:00.003-08:002023-01-10T08:17:24.457-08:00Conference announcement: Canadam 2023<p> <i class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Le français suit.</i></p><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We apologize for any cross-posting.</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CanaDAM 2023 announcement and call for participation.</b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The next biennial CanaDAM Conference will take place June 5--8, 2023 in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. This will be an in-person meeting hosted jointly by the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg.</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Conference website: </span><a class="" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.canadam.ca%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cshollid4%40KENNESAW.EDU%7Cb87b05efb952448f1a4e08daf32489dd%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638089635513916469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4FpYqVm5A3ukGZH7lEkTwuPwZCGxNysvmfEEtqHHRAw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.canadam.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="JqRwqWaTQPnA7DgHNpdwusBVTDpK3FoBX8K9TVYKYdJhtRKsXrxemHbI0djWgyuVWtd+ymwDeVxAZMKk86zKAyqCXbNN4qmDY6yn+hJQnfGm33EStGAHHPwEhwOvn65nVsMYl2vxH/QbIvl+WBtsjcYlZ74f8QjrVHHXA70rreg=" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://www.canadam.ca/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">https://www.canadam.ca/</a><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The general topic of the conference is the theory and application of discrete structures. Its goal is to highlight the most salient trends in the field. The conference will bring together researchers from the various disciplines with which discrete and algorithmic mathematics interact. Particular areas of interest include graphs and digraphs, hypergraphs, matroids, ordered sets, designs, coding theory, enumeration, combinatorics of words, discrete optimization, discrete and computational geometry, lattice point enumeration, combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity, and applications of discrete and algorithmic mathematics, including (but not limited to) web graphs, computational biology, telecommunication networks, and information processing.</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The conference will follow its usual format. There will be eight plenary talks, one public interest talk, invited mini-symposia, as well as contributed mini-symposia and talks. </span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Invited Plenary Speakers are:</b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><ul class="x_MailOutline" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li class=""><b class="">Nima Anari</b>, Stanford University</li><li class=""><b class="">Simina Brânzei,</b> Purdue University</li><li class=""><b class="">Penny Haxell</b>, University of Waterloo</li><li class=""><b class="">Ferdinand Ihringer</b>, Universiteit Gent</li><li class=""><b class="">Jennifer Morse</b>, University of Virginia </li><li class=""><b class="">Igor Pak</b>, University of California Los Angeles</li><li class=""><b class="">Alexey Pokrovskiy</b>, University College London</li><li class=""><b class="">Laura Sanita</b>, Eindhoven University of Technology</li></ul><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The invited </span><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Public Interest Lecture</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> will be given by </span><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Laura Albert</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">, University of Wisconsin.</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A preliminary list of invited minisymposia:</b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Algorithmic Game Theory</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Simina Brânzei and Ruta Mehta)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Combinatorics and Algebra </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Alexey Pokrovskiy)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Design Theory and Coding Theory</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Thaís Bardini Idalino, Jonathan Jedwab and Shuxing Li)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Discrete Mathematics in Quantum information Processing </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Markus Grassl and Petr Lisonek)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Emerging Tools and Applications of Mixed-Integer Optimization </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(Org: Sonia Cafieri)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Felix Joos)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Generalizations of the Chromatic Polynomial</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Farid Aliniaeifard and Steph van Willigenburg)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Geometric Combinatorics</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Amzi Jeffs)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Random matrix theory and connections</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (Org: Vishesh Jain)</span><br aria-hidden="true" class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><b class="" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; 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All MS and contributed talks will be 20 minutes in length with five additional minutes for questions.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Deadlines</b>:<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li class="">Titles and abstracts of Invited Talks: Feb 10, 2023 (notification Feb 24, 2023)</li><li class="">Titles and abstracts of Invited MS: Feb 10, 2023 (notification Feb 24, 2023)</li><li class="">Contributed MS proposals, including lists of all speakers: Feb 17, 2023</li><li class="">Titles and abstracts from all speakers for proposed MS: Feb 24, 2023 (notification March 10, 2023)</li><li class="">Titles and abstracts of Contributed Talks: Feb 24, 2023 (notification March 10, 2023)</li></ul></div><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Conference venues</b> will be downtown Winnipeg with plenary talks at the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre on 281 Donald Street and all other talks at the University of Winnipeg. <br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Special events</b> will include: a welcoming reception (Monday), a public lecture reception (Wednesday), a networking luncheon for those identifying as women, a networking dinner for students and post-doctoral fellows.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Funding</b>: Students and post-doctoral fellows may apply for funding. 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On soulève, entre autres, graphes et digraphes, hypergraphes, matroïdes, ensembles ordonnés, configurations combinatoires, théorie des codes, combinatoire énumérative, combinatoire des mots, optimisation discrète, géométrie discrète et algorithmique, dénombrement des points d'un réseau, algorithmes combinatoires, complexité, applications des mathématiques discrètes et algorithmiques au domaines, entre autres, des graphes du web, la bioinformatique, les réseaux de télécommunication et le traitement de l'information.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" />Le congrès aura son format habituel. Il y aura huit conférenciers pléniers, une conférence d''intérêt publique, des minisymposia invités ainsi que des minisymposia et conférences libres.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Les conférenciers pléniers invités sont:</b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Nima Anari,</b> Stanford University</li><li class=""><b class="">Simina Brânzei</b>, Purdue University</li><li class=""><b class="">Penny Haxell</b>, University of Waterloo</li><li class=""><b class="">Ferdinand Ihringer</b>, Universiteit Gent</li><li class=""><b class="">Jennifer Morse</b>, University of Virginia </li><li class=""><b class="">Igor Pak</b>, University of California Los Angeles</li><li class=""><b class="">Alexey Pokrovskiy</b>, University College London</li><li class=""><b class="">Laura Sanita</b>, Eindhoven University of Technology</li></ul><br aria-hidden="true" class="" />La <b class="">Conférence d'Intérêt Public</b> sera donnée par <b class="">Laura Albert</b>, Université de Wisconsin.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">La liste préliminaire des minisymposia invités :</b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Algorithmic Game Theory</b> (Org: Simina Brânzei et Ruta Mehta)</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Combinatorics and Algebra</b> (Org: Alexey Pokrovskiy)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Design Theory and Coding Theory</b> (Org: Thaís Bardini Idalino, Jonathan Jedwab et Shuxing Li)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Discrete Mathematics in Quantum information Processing</b> (Org: Markus Grassl et Petr Lisonek)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Emerging Tools and Applications of Mixed-Integer Optimization</b> (Org: Sonia Cafieri)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics</b> (Org: Felix Joos)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Generalizations of the Chromatic Polynomial</b> (Org: Farid Aliniaeifard et Steph van Willigenburg)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Geometric Combinatorics</b> (Org: Amzi Jeffs)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Random matrix theory and connections</b> (Org: Vishesh Jain)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Random Structures and Random Processes</b> (Org: Jane (Pu) Gao et Xavier Pérez Giménez)<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Structural Graph Theory</b> (Org: Sang-il Oum et Sebastian Wiederrecht) <br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" />Les membres de la communauté mathématiques discrètes sont encouragés à soumettre propositions pour des minisymposia libres et des conférences libres, en ligne avec les thèmes de la conférence.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Inscription</b> : Veuillez inscrire par le site web du congrès. 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Tout MS et conférence libre seront un exposé de 20 minutes avec 5 minutes additionnelles pour questions.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Dates limites</b> :<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li class="">Titres et résumés de conferences invitées : 10 février 2023 (avec réponse le 24 février)</li><li class="">Titres et résumés de minisymposia invités : 10 février 2023 (avec réponse le 24 février)</li><li class="">Propositions de minisymposia libre, comprenant la liste des orateurs : 17 février 2023</li><li class="">Titres et résumés de minisymposia libre : 24 février 2023 (avec réponse le 10 mars)</li><li class="">Titres et résumés de conférences libres : 24 février 2023 (avec réponse le 10 mars)</li></ul><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Lieux</b> : Le congrès aura lieu au centre-ville de Winnipeg avec les conférences plénières au Metropolitan Entertainment Centre à 281 Donald Street et toutes les autres conférences à l’Université de Winnipeg. <br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Activités</b>: Les activités et événements incluent une réception de bienvenue (lundi), une réception pour la conférence d'intérêt public (mercredi), un dîner de réseautage pour ceux qui s’identifient comme femmes, et une soirée étudiante pour les étudiants et postdocs.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Financement</b> : Les étudiants et postdocs peuvent présenter une demande de soutien financier. Veuillez consulter le site web du congrès pour détails.<br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><b class="">Hébergement</b> : Des tarifs spéciaux sont prévus chez quelques hôtels. Les détails se trouvent sur le site web du congrès. On vous suggère de réserver votre hébergement tôt, car juin est un mois populaire pour les congrès à Winnipeg. <br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" />Soyez vigilant en partageant votre information personnelle. Une fraude connue consiste à envoyer des courriels qui semblent officiels aux participants d'une conférence académique, en demandant de "confirmer" votre "réservation" et vous demande des informations personnelles et même carte de crédit. 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Click or tap if you trust this link.">http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/canadam2023</a><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div></div>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-55092694615820774982022-12-29T11:28:00.001-08:002022-12-29T11:28:00.176-08:00 Call for Nominations: The Euler, Hall, Kirkman, and Stanton Medals and Honorary Fellows<p> Call for Nominations: The Euler, Hall, Kirkman, and Stanton Medals and Honorary Fellows</p><p>Until 31 December 2022, nominations are invited for the 2022 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.</p><p>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 up to 200 words understandable to the broad membership of the ICA. Quotes from nomination letters may be used without attribution in citations, which may appear in the Bulletin of the ICA and in press releases.</p><p>Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research by Fellows of the ICA, including those who remain active in research. Normally, at most one medal per year is awarded.</p><p>Hall Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international impact by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. Recipients must have earned their doctoral degree in 2004 or later. At most two medals per year are awarded.</p><p>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. A recipient of a 2022 medal must have earned their doctoral degree in 2019 or later. At most two medals per year are awarded.</p><p>Stanton Medals honour significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring. Letters of nomination should establish the significance, duration, and impact of the nominee's contributions other than research. At most one medal per year is to be awarded, typically to a Fellow of the ICA.</p><p>Honorary Fellowship recognizes an individual who has made pre-eminent contributions to combinatorics or its applications. Nominees need not be Fellows of the ICA. The number of living Honorary Fellows at any time shall not exceed ten.</p><p>The ICA Medals Committee (Michael Giudici, Heather Jordon and Ying Miao) reviews nominations. The committee makes recommendations to the ICA President and Council, with whom the final decisions rest. The ICA President announces the medal recipients.</p><p>Please send nominations to Michael Giudici (Michael.Giudici@uwa.edu.au), who will acknowledge receipt and verify that the nomination package is complete. The Medals Committee will not otherwise comment on a nomination, whether recommended or not, except in its report to the ICA President. Nominations that are not recommended will be considered again in each of the two years following the submission of the nomination, provided that the eligibility criteria are still satisfied. Short updates to nominations will be accepted, but they will not extend the three year consideration period. A new nomination can be submitted after a gap of at least one year.</p>The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150842165848246031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898675564140321286.post-57982594778256244912022-12-22T13:08:00.001-08:002022-12-22T13:08:00.162-08:00Conference announcement: Apr. 28-30, 2023 Women in Algebra and Combinatorics. Northeast Conference Celebrating the Association for Women in Mathematics: 50 Years and Counting<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The Department of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Albany, in cooperation with the Association for Women in Mathematics, is organizing the following event:</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Women in Algebra and Combinatorics. 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE INSTITUTE OF COMBINATORICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891956"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Membership</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891956 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891957"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Fellows</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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PAGEREF _Toc97891957 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891958"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Honorary Fellows</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891959"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Associate Fellows</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891960"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Companion Members</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
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<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891961"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Student Members</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891961 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891962"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Corporate and Institutional Members</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891962 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891963"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Nominations, Elections, and Transfers</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891963 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900360033000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891964"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">By-laws, Entrance Fees, and Subscriptions</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891964 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900360034000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891965"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Rights of Members</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891965 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900360035000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891966"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Resignation and Removal of Names from the Register</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891966 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900360036000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891967"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">General Meetings</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891967 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891968"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Proceedings at General Meetings</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891968 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891969"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Votes of Members</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891969 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891970"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Powers of the Council</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891970 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900370030000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891971"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Proceedings of the Council</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891971 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900370031000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891972"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Registrar</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891972 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900370032000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891973"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The Seal</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891973 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F0054006F006300390037003800390031003900370033000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891974"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Accounts</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891974 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891975"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Audit</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;"> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891975 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891976"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Medals</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891976 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoToc1" style="tab-stops: right dotted 467.5pt;"><a href="file:///E:/BOCA%202022/2022%20A%20of%20A.docx#_Toc97891977"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Policies</span><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1 dotted;">. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;mso-no-proof:yes;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
PAGEREF _Toc97891977 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: windowtext; display: none; mso-hide: screen; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<h1><a name="_Toc340474435"></a><a name="_Toc97891955"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474435;">General</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first draft of these articles was modelled on those of
the British professional society <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. </b>Consequently, they are quite
involved and probably cover a lot of contingencies that will never arise. They
have been examined by Council, and Council has approved them as a suitable set
of initial articles. If and when revisions become necessary, the Articles can
be revised by a General Meeting of the Institute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The members are associated in the society
according to the following ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. If not inconsistent with the subject or context, certain
words have specific meaning as given below:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">WORDS <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MEANINGS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These presents<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>These
articles of Association, and the current regulations of the Institute.<br />
The Institute<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.<br />
The Council<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
Council of Management for the time being of the Institute.<br />
Voting Member<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>A Fellow or
Associate Fellow of the Institute.<br />
The Office <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
registered office of the Institute, housed at FAU starting in 2017<br />
The Seal<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
common seal of the Institute.<br />
Month <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Calendar
month.<br />
In writing<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Written
or printed including analog and digital means of communication.<br />
Executive <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
Executive Committee or Officers of the Council shall be comprised of the
President, Vice-President(s), and Secretary, as elected in Article 50.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These articles use the gender neutral “they” when referring
to persons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. The Institute is established for the purpose of promoting
the development of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and
conferences in combinatorics and its applications.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474436"></a><a name="_Toc97891956"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474436;">Membership</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. The Council may from time to time decide on the size of
the membership of the association.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Every duly elected/nominated member of the Institute
shall assume the rights and responsibilities of these articles upon paying
dues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. The Founding Fellows of the Institute and such other
persons as the Council shall admit to membership in accordance with the
provisions hereinafter contained shall be members of the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Foundation Fellows of the Institute are those who were
invited and joined the ICA during the period from May 1, 1990 to May 1, 1991.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. The classes of membership are: Fellow, Honorary Fellow,
Associate Fellow, Companion Member, Student Member, Corporate Member,
Institutional Member.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. Fellows and Associate Fellows only shall be Voting
Members. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474437"></a><a name="_Toc97891957"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474437;">Fellows</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. The Council shall have power (but shall not be bound) to
elect to Fellowship any person, duly nominated as hereinafter provided, who has
complied with one of the following conditions:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(i) They shall be an Associate Fellow of the Institute or
shall have obtained a degree or diploma of a standard acceptable to the
Council. They shall, moreover, have had experience either for not less than seven
years of responsible research work in combinatorics or its applications which
in the opinion of the Council has constituted a valuable contribution to the
subject or for not less than ten years in responsible work which in the opinion
of the Council demands a sufficient knowledge of combinatorics or its
applications to justify their election; or (ii) They shall have made such
outstanding contributions either to combinatorics or its applications as shall
make it desirable in the opinion of the Council that they become a Fellow of
the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474438"></a><a name="_Toc97891958"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474438;">Honorary Fellows</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. The Council may elect to Honorary Fellowship any person
who has made pre-eminent contributions to combinatorics or its applications.
The number of Honorary Fellows at any time shall not exceed ten.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. Proposals for election to Honorary Fellowship shall be
made in writing by at least three Fellows and submitted to the Secretary and
shall contain the name, address, occupation, and qualifications of the person
proposed together with a statement of the contributions made by such person as
aforesaid.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11. Such election shall be valid only if at least
three-quarters of the members of the Council approve the proposal in a duly
constituted ballot.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12. Honorary Fellows shall be entitled to the ordinary
privileges of membership but they shall not be required to contribute to the
funds of the Institute, and shall not be eligible to vote, and shall not be
eligible for the Hall, Kirkman, or Euler medals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474439"></a><a name="_Toc97891959"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474439;">Associate Fellows</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">13. The Council shall have power (but not be bound) to elect
to Associate Fellowship any person, duly nominated as hereinafter provided, who
has complied with either conditions (i), (ii), and (iii) below, or condition
(iv) below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(i) They shall have received a general education approved by
the Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(ii) They shall have obtained a degree or diploma acceptable
to the Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(iii) They shall have had experience for at least three
years <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">or (iv) They shall have made such contributions either to
combinatorics or to its applications or shall have had such experience as is
desirable in the opinion of the Council that they become an Associate Fellow of
the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474440"></a><a name="_Toc97891960"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474440;">Companion Members</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">14. Companion members shall be persons who desire to participate
in the activities of the Institute and to receive the privileges of membership
but who do not, in the opinion of the Council, comply with the conditions for
election as Associate Fellows. The Council, if satisfied that a candidate, duly
nominated as hereinafter provided, has sufficient interest in combinatorics or
its applications to be likely to profit from participation in the activities of
the Institute, shall have power (but shall not be bound) to elect them to
Companion Membership. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474441"></a><a name="_Toc97891961"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474441;">Student Members</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">16. The Council shall have power (but shall not be bound) to
elect to Student Membership any person, duly nominated as hereinafter provided,
who is studying to acquire the qualifications appropriate to the class of
Associate Fellow.. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474442"></a><a name="_Toc97891962"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474442;">Corporate and Institutional Members</span></a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">17. The Council may admit to regular, senior, or sponsoring
Corporate Membership, any business or corporation interested in the promotion,
encouragement, or development of combinatorics and its applications. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Council may admit to Institutional Membership any group
of persons or any educational organization that is desirous of participating in
the encouragement, promotion, or development of combinatorics and its
applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Universities as
Institutional members will be charged $500/year and will be awarded 4
complimentary student memberships. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Corporate and Institutional Members shall receive a copy of
the BICA, but may not vote in general elections, and may not be elected to
Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474443"></a><a name="_Toc97891963"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474443;">Nominations, Elections, and Transfers</span></a> <o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">18. (1) Prospective members will send an email to office@the-ica.net,
including a CV along with a request for membership at a specified level. (2)
The Office reviews the CV. If there are any potential issues, the office emails
the Executive Committee. (3) If the application is sufficient the applicant is
invoiced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(4) Every three months, the
Executive Committee will ask Council to ratify the list of new members. The
Office will keep digital copies of applications and attached CV until at least
the Council has fully ratified the new member.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">19. The Council may in its absolute discretion and without
assigning any reason, refuse to admit any person to membership or to allow them
to transfer to another class of membership.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474444"></a><a name="_Toc97891964"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474444;">By-laws, Entrance Fees, and Subscriptions</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">20. The Council shall have power to make, vary, and repeal
by-laws, provided that any by-laws made, varied, or repealed shall not be effective
until approved by a General Meeting of the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">21. (A) Subject to any variations that may from time to time
be made and approved in accordance by the membership at a General meeting, the
entrance fee and subscription payable by applicants for membership and the
subscriptions for persons who are already members of the Institute shall be the
following amounts, quoted in US dollars: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><u>Subscription<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">FTICA One Year:<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$85 (Fellow)<br />
FTICA Two Years:<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$155<br />
FTICA Three Years: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$205<br />
AFTICA One Year: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$65
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Associate Fellow)<br />
MTICA One Year: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$45
(Companion, Student)<br />
Institutional Members: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$500<br />
Corporate Members: <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$500<br />
Senior Corporate Members: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$1000<br />
Sponsoring Corporate Members: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$2500<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Lifetime FTICA membership: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$1000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Discounts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Retired: 50% discount of lifetime membership, assumes 10
years of membership prior to retiring<br />
Retired: 50% discount of annual membership, does not require 10 years prior.<br />
<br />
</span>(B) Members paying the annual subscription mentioned in sub-clause (A)
of this article as varied from time to time shall be entitled to copies of the
BICA. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(C) If the Council admits the applicant, they shall be
notified by email at the address in their application but they shall not become
a Member until they have paid the annual dues. All subsequent payments of
subscription shall fall due on the anniversary of the date of admission to the
Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(D) Any member transferring to another class of membership
at a higher rate of subscription shall pay the subscription for the current
year of the class to which they are transferred and the subscription already paid
shall be treated as part payment thereof but no further entrance fee shall be
required.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">22. Every member shall furnish particulars of their address
and of any change thereof from time to time to the Secretary and Registrar.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474445"></a><a name="_Toc97891965"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474445;">Rights of Members</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">23. Fellows and Associate Fellows of the Institute shall be
entitled to use the initials FTICA and AFTICA respectively after their names.
Companion Members, and Student Members shall be entitled to use the initials
MTICA after their names.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All members of the Institute shall receive a diploma of
membership signed by four members of the Council and bearing the Seal of the
Institute to the effect that the member has been admitted to the Institute in
the grade indicated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474446"></a><a name="_Toc97891966"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474446;">Resignation and Removal of Names from the Register</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">25. Any member, provided they are under no liability to the
Institute shall be entitled to resign on giving notice in writing of their
intention to do so. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">28. Any person who has resigned or otherwise ceased to be a
member shall be entitled to apply for re-admission as a member. Such a person
shall comply with the by-laws of the Institute and such other terms and
conditions, including the payment of any entrance fee, as the Council may
require.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">29. The Council shall on being notified of the death of any
Member cause their name to be removed from the Register.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">30. Any member who has in the opinion of the Council duly
expressed by a resolution thereof, been guilty of conduct which renders them
unfit in their opinion to retain their membership shall, on a resolution to
that effect passed by the Council at a meeting duly convened with notice of
intention to consider the case, at which not less than one-third of the members
of the Council are present, have their name struck off the Register of Members
and shall cease to be a member accordingly, provided that no member shall be
deprived of their membership for any other reason than to pay their annual
subscription without at least fourteen days' notice thereof and an opportunity
to be heard, either in person or by another in their defence, at a meeting of
the Council specially convened for that purpose. A person who has been deprived
of their membership under any of the provisions of this Article may be
readmitted by the Council at any time upon such conditions as it may determine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474447"></a><a name="_Toc97891967"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474447;">General Meetings</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">31. The Institute shall hold an Annual General Meeting every
calendar year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">32. Only Voting Members have the right to receive notices of
and to vote at General Meetings. Members have the right to attend but not to
vote. By decision of Council, General Meetings may be held by mail or by
electronic mail.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">34. Notice of a meeting shall normally be given by
publication in the Bulletin of the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">35. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to,
or the non-receipt of such notice by, any person entitled to receive notice
thereof shall not invalidate any resolution passed, or proceeding had, at any
meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474448"></a><a name="_Toc97891968"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474448;">Proceedings at General Meetings</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">38. Seven Voting Members personally present shall be a
quorum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">40. The President or in their absence a Vice-President (to
be selected from the elected present by the meeting) shall preside as Chair at
every General Meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">42. Save for the election of members of the Council when
there are more candidates than vacancies (in which case election shall be by
email or online), a resolution put to the vote at any General Meeting shall be
decided on a show of hands of the members present in person and entitled to
vote, unless a poll is, before or upon the declaration of the result of the show
of hands, demanded:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(A) by the Chair; or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(B) by at least three Voting Members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">43. Email balloting should be made as secure as is
reasonably possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">45. In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show
of hands or on a poll, the Chair of the meeting shall be entitled to a second
or casting vote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474449"></a><a name="_Toc97891969"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474449;">Votes of Members</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">47. At all General Meetings of the Institute, there will be
no proxy or absentee voting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If an issue
requiring a vote is considered disputable by one-third of the members present,
its vote may be held by email within a 30 day period.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Voting may take
place in person at an Annual General Meeting, or by email within a 30 day
period after the vote is announced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Late
votes will be considered invalid.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">50. The officers of the ICA shall be a President, three
Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Council Members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are to be elected by the voting members
of the ICA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only ICA voting members can
be elected to any of the above offices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Officers will serve until their successors have been elected and assume
office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Council shall serve as the
advisory body to the President and other officials. Past Presidents, if able
and willing to serve, and if they are still Voting Members of the Institute
shall be ex-officio members of Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">51. The Secretary shall be responsible to the Council for
administration and for co-ordination of the affairs of the Institute generally.
They shall be responsible to the Council for the administration of the
financial affairs of the Institute and for ensuring that proper accounts are
kept.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">52. Following the adoption of this Article and until
otherwise resolved in General Meeting, the Council shall consist of the Past
Presidents (ex-officio unless elected) able and willing to serve together with
the Founding Fellows (ex-officio unless elected) and with not less than
twenty-four and not more than thirty other members (including the officers,
twenty elected members, and not more than six co-opted members).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">53. Council members shall serve three year terms, and one
third of the council shall be voted into office each year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">54.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Election of
elected members of the Council shall be as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Candidates will be solicited by email to the existing membership
and each solicitation announcement should be broadcast at least twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Candidate names will be distributed during
the AGM to the membership (by overhead projector or equivalent).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chair of the meeting will seek a majority
vote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">55. The Council may co-opt any Member of the Institute to be
a member of the Council; at any time the total number of co-opted members shall
not exceed six.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">56. The Council may at any time appoint or co-opt any
eligible person to be an officer or member of the Council to fill a casual
vacancy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">57. If the Council shall at any time be reduced to less than
twenty (including the officers), the continuing members may act as the Council
for the purpose of filling vacancies or for summoning a General Meeting but for
no other purpose.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">58. The office of an officer or a member of the Council
shall be vacated:<br />
(A)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If a receiving order is made
against them or they make any arrangement or composition with their creditors.<br />
(B)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If they become of unsound
mind.<br />
(C)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If they cease to be a member
of the Institute.<br />
(D)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If by notice in writing to
the Institute they resign their office.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474450"></a><a name="_Toc97891970"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474450;">Powers of the Council</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">59. The Council may pay all such expenses of, and
preliminary and incidental to, the promotion, formation, establishment and registration
of the Institute as it thinks fit, and may exercise all powers of the
Institute, and do on behalf of the Institute all such acts as may be exercised
and done by the Institute, and as are not by these presents required to be
exercised or done by the Institute in General Meeting, subject nevertheless to
regulations or provisions as may be prescribed by the Institute in General
Meeting, but no regulation made by the Institute in General Meeting shall
invalidate any prior acts of the Council which would have been valid if such
regulation had not been made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">60. The Council may exercise all the powers of the Institute
to borrow money, and to mortgage or charge its undertaking and property, or any
part thereof.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">61. All cheques and other negotiable instruments, and all
receipts for moneys paid to the Institute, shall be signed, drawn, accepted,
endorsed, or otherwise executed, in such manner as the Council shall from time
to time determine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474451"></a><a name="_Toc97891971"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474451;">Proceedings of the Council</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">62. The Council may meet in person or online for the
dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it thinks
fit, and determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless
otherwise determined, seven shall be a quorum. Questions arising at any meeting
shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes, the
Chair shall have a second or casting vote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">63.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A meeting of the
Council may be called by the President, Secretary, or any two members of the
Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">64. The President, or failing them, a Vice-President, shall
chair all meetings of Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">65. A meeting of the Council at which a quorum is present
shall be competent to exercise all the authorities, powers, and discretions by
or under the regulations of the Institute for the time being vested in the
Council generally.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">66. The Council may at any time set up committees consisting
of members of the Institute for a specific purpose, and may regulate their
procedure, quorum, and membership, and may, if it deems advisable, appoint to
any committee thus set up persons possessing specialised knowledge whether from
among the members of the Institute or not. The Council may dissolve any such
committee at any time. The Council may delegate to any such committee the power
to act for the Council subject to such limitations as may be imposed. Except in
so far as the power to act is expressly delegated, no resolution of a committee
shall be of any unless it is subsequently confirmed by a resolution of the
Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">67. The Council shall cause proper minutes to be made of all
proceedings of all meetings of the Institute and of the Council and of
committees of the Council, and all business transacted at such meetings, and
any such minutes of any meeting, if signed by the Chair of such meeting, or by
the Chair of the next succeeding meeting of the Institute, Council, or as the
case may be, shall be sufficient evidence, without further proof, of the facts
therein stated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474452"></a><a name="_Toc97891972"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474452;">Registrar</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">70. The Council shall have the power to appoint an executive
officer to be called The Registrar, who shall be the general executive officer
of the Institute, and such other executive officers and servants as the Council
may think fit. The Council shall have power to determine their powers and
duties and to make such arrangements and enter into such agreements with them,
or any of them, as the Council shall think fit, and to pay them such salaries
and wages, and such remuneration by way of pensions, gratuities or otherwise,
and to make such provision for and grant such pensions and gratuities to them
after their retirement from the service of the Institute as the Council may
think proper. The Registrar shall be responsible to the Executive. The
Registrar shall be an ex officio member of the Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474453"></a><a name="_Toc97891973"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474453;">The Seal</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">71. The seal of the Institute shall not be affixed to any
instrument except by the authority of the Council, and in the presence of at
least two members of the Council and of the Registrar, and the said members and
the Registrar shall sign every instrument to which the seal shall be so affixed
in their presence, and in favour of any purchaser or person bona fide dealing
with the Institute such signatures shall be conclusive evidence of the fact
that the seal has been affixed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474454"></a><a name="_Toc97891974"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474454;">Accounts</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">72. The Council shall cause proper books of account to be
kept with respect to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(A) all sums of money received and expended by the Institute
and the matters in respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(B) all sales and purchases of goods by the Institute and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(C) the assets and liabilities of the Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proper books shall be deemed to be such books of account as
are necessary to give a true view of the affairs of the Institute and to
explain its transactions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">73. The books of account shall be kept at the office, and
shall be open to inspection by members of the Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">74. All members, and members of the general public have the
right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Institute .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">75. At each Annual General Meeting, the Council shall lay
before the Institute an income and expenditure for the period since the last
preceding account (or in the case of the first account since the incorporation
of the Institute) made up to a date not more than six months before the Annual
General Meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc340474455"></a><a name="_Toc97891975"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc340474455;">Audit</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">76. Once at least in every year the accounts of the
Institute shall be examined and the correctness of the income and expenditure
account and balance sheet ascertained by the Audit Subcommittee of Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">77. The Audit Subcommittee shall be appointed by the
Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc97891976">Medals</a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">82. The ICA shall annually award four medals: The Kirkman,
Hall, Euler, and Stanton.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a) Euler
Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial
research by Fellows of the ICA who are still active in research. Normally, at
most one medal per year is awarded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>b) Hall
Medals recognize extensive quality research with substantial international
impact by Fellows of the ICA in mid-career. Recipients must not have reached
age 41 before the end of the year for which they are nominated. At most two
medals per year are awarded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>c)
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. Recipients must have earned their doctoral degree within
the four years preceding the end of the year for which they are nominated. At
most two medals per year are awarded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>d) <span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Instituted in
2016, Stanton<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">Medal</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>honours significant lifetime
contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy,
outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring. Letters of nomination should
establish the significance, duration, and impact of the nominee’s contributions
other than research. At most one<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">medal</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>per year is
to be awarded, typically to a Fellow of the ICA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">83. Nominations for medal recipients: Each nomination for a
medal is to be made by two or more Fellows of the ICA. Nominees for the Stanton
medal must not be current members of the ICA Council. Nominees for an Euler,
Hall, or Kirkman medal must be ICA members in the year for which they are
nominated, and not current members of the ICA Council and not Honorary Fellows.
A nomination must include a complete curriculum vitae and a letter detailing
the extent and importance of the nominee’s contributions, addressing the
selection criteria. Nomination letters should be suitable for inclusion, in
whole or in part, in a citation that may appear in the Bulletin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">84. Selection committee shall be comprised of Fellows, and
the chair of the selection committee shall be a member of the Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><a name="_Toc97891977">Policies</a><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">85. Policies may be added to this document by petitioning
the Council for inclusion, and receiving a majority vote of the Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Policies may be edited or removed in the same
way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">86. Policy on Conference support: A conference organizer or
organizing committee consisting of largely ICA membership may petition the
Executive Council for Conference support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If the Executive Council deems (a) the Conference topic of interest to a
majority of members in the ICA, and (b) the Conference will be attended by a
non-trivial proportion of members of the ICA, and (c) the organizer(s) allow
the ICA to host a business meeting (if needed), and (d) the organizer(s) will
use the ICA logo appropriately in all advertising (print and online), then the
Executive Council will consult the budget for the year and award appropriately.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">87.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Policy on Program
Review and Accreditation: At this time, the ICA does not accredit programs and
has no formal structure for program review.<o:p></o:p></p>
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