ICA Annual General Meeting Minutes 2019
2019 ICA Annual General Meeting
Called to order by Douglas R. Stinson at:
11:08
March 6, 2019 50th Anniversary
Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory &
Computing
Attendance: approximately 40 people
First, A big thank you to everyone
involved in organizing the Southeastern Conferences over the years, but
especially to Fred Hoffman!
Agenda
(1) Report from the President (Doug, 20 minutes)
a.
ICA Executive and
Council (2018–2019)
i. Doug Stinson President 2016-2019
ii. Dalibor Froncek Vice-president 2016-2019
iii. David Pike Vice-president 2016-2019
iv. Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng Vice-president 2017-2020
v. Sarah Holliday Secretary 2016-2019
vi. Spyros Magliveras registrar
vii. Marco Buratti 2016-2019
viii.
Darryn Bryant
2016-2019
ix. Gary Chartrand 2016-2019
x. Yeow Meng Chee 2017-2020
xi. Marston Conder 2017-2020
xii. Jeff Dinitz 2018-2021
xiii.
Gennian Ge 2017-2019
xiv. James Hammer, III 2017-2020
xv. Fred Hoffman 2016-2019
xvi. Mark Kayll 2017-2020
xvii.
Melissa Keranen
2018-2021
xviii.
Sandi Klavzar
2017-2020
xix. Bill Kocay 2016-2019
xx. Don Kreher 2018-2021
xxi. Selda Kucukcifci 2017-2020
xxii.
Josef Lauri 2017-2020
xxiii.
Marius Meszka
2018-2021
xxiv.
Ortrud Oellermann
2018-2021
xxv. Alexander Pott 2017-2020
xxvi.
Brooks Reid 2016-2019
xxvii.
Dinesh Sarvate
2018-2021
xxviii.
Ingo Schiermeyer
2018-2021
xxix.
Tran van Trung
2018-2021
xxx. Ian Wanless 2018-2021
b.
ICA Office
i. The ICA Office is located at Boca Raton (Florida Atlantic
University) and it is being run by Spyros Magliveras, the ICA Registrar.
ii. Cristina Castaneda is the ICA Assistant; she was hired last
year to assist Spyros
c.
Dues schedule
i. Invoicing of members’ dues from the new office started in
November 2016.
ii. Dues payments can be made on a web page using a credit card:
https://fauf.fau.edu/icamemberships
iii. Tax-deductable donations can be made to the ICA on the
following web page: https://fauf.fau.edu/ica
v. Dues Schedule
1.
FTICA (fellow)
a.
one year : $85
b.
two years: $155
(approximately a 10% discount)
c.
three years: $205
(approximately a 20% discount)
d.
lifetime: $1000
AFTICA
2.
(Associate Fellow) •
one year: $65 MTICA
3.
(Companion, Graduate,
Student) • one year: $45
4.
Retired Persons
a.
one year: $42.50
(this is a 50% discount)
b.
lifetime: $500 (for
people who have been members for at least 10 years)
5.
Institutional
Members: $250 per year
6.
Corporate Members:
$500 per year
7.
Senior Corporate
Members: $1000 per year
8.
Sponsoring Corporate
Members: $2500 per year
9.
New Member
Initiatives (approved at the last annual meeting)
a.
any student who
finishes a PhD in Combinatorics is eligible to receive a one-year free
membership in the ICA
b.
a new ICA member who
registers for two years will receive the first year of membership free
d.
ICA medals and
honorary fellows
i. No ICA medals were awarded between 2009 and 2015.
ii. In 2016, a Medals Committee was formed.
iii. A new Stanton medal, to honour significant lifetime
contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy,
outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring, was approved by Council in 2016.
iv. An accelerated schedule was implemented starting in 2016 to
award medals for the period 2009–2015.
v. Starting in 2017, awarding of medals resumed a normal
schedule.
vi. Medal winners are recommended by the Medals Committee and
approved by Council.
vii. The Medals Committee also recommends honorary follows.
viii.
ICA Medals Committee
Members (who have awarded 35 medals, thanks to them)
1.
Christine O’Keefe
2016-2018
2.
Charlie Colbourn
2016-2019
3.
Jonathan Jedwab
2016-2020
4.
Mateja Sajna ˇ
2018-2021
5.
Gennian Ge 2019-2022
6.
Charlie Colbourn
served as chair from 2016–2019, and Jonathan Jedwab will be chair from
2019–2020.
a.
Doug thanks Charlie
for his service
7.
Euler Medal Winners
2010–2018 year winner(s)
a.
2018 Dieter
Jungnickel
b.
2017 Fan Chung
c.
2016 James Hirschfeld
d.
2015 no medals
awarded
e.
2014 Brian Alspach
f.
2013 Curt Lindner
g.
2012 Alex Rosa
h.
2011 Cheryl Praeger
i.
2010 Bojan Mohar
8.
Hall Medal Winners
2010–2018 year winner(s)
a.
2018 Kai-Uwe Schmidt
b.
2017 John Bamberg
c.
2017 Daniel Horsley
d.
2016 no medals
awarded
e.
2015 Lijun Ji
f.
2014 Peter Dukes
g.
2013 Bart De Bruyn
h.
2012 Michael Giudici
i.
2011 Olga Polverino
j.
2010 Catherine
Greenhill
9.
Kirkman Medal Winners
2010–2018 year winner(s)
a.
2018 Alexander Bors
b.
2018 Shuxing Li
c.
2017 Hengjia Wei
d.
2017 Binzhou Xia
e.
2016 Yue Zhou
f.
2015 Padraig O
Cath´ain ´
g.
2014 Daniele Bartoli
h.
2013 Tommaso Traetta
i.
2012 Rebecca Stones
j.
2012 Xiande Zhang
k.
2011 Tao Feng
l.
2010 Daniel Horsley
m. 2010 Kai-Uwe Schmidt
10.Stanton
Medal Winners 2016–2018 year winner(s)
a.
2018 no medal awarded
b.
2017 Robin Wilson
c.
2016 Ron Mullin
Stanton Medal
11.Honorary
Fellows
a.
“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.”
b.
As of December 31,
2017, there were five living honorary fellows: S.S. Shrikhande, C.R. Rao, G.J.
Simmons, Vera Sos, Henry Gould.
c.
The ICA put out a
call for new honorary fellows in 2017 and again in 2018.
d.
Neil Robertson was
approved by Council as a new honorary fellow in 2017.
e.
New Honorary Fellow -
Carsten Thomassen has just been approved by Council as a new honorary fellow in
2018.
e.
Conference support
i. The ICA is expanding its support of conferences in combinatorics
and related areas.
ii. Conferences supported in 2018:
1.
49th Southeastern
International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing
2.
Conference on
Combinatorics and its Applications In Celebration of Charlie Colbourn’s 65th
Birthday
3.
MCCCC 32 — Midwest
Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing
iii. Conferences supported in 2019:
1.
50th Anniversary
Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory &
Computing
2.
CanaDAM 2019
3.
14th International
Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications
4.
27th British
Combinatorial Conference
5.
42nd Australasian
Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
f.
Bulletin of the ICA
i. Three new EICs were chosen in October 2016, namely Marco
Buratti, Don Kreher and Tran van Trung.
ii. The first issue of the Bulletin produced under the direction
of the new EICs is the January 2017 issue, which is Volume 79.
iii. The most recent issue is the February 2019 issue, which is
Volume 85.
iv. Printing and mailing is now done from Czechia. Production is
handled by Don Kreher. Dalibor takes care of the printing and mailing.
v. Online Publication of the Bulletin
1.
Starting from Volume
79 (January 2017), we have published the Bulletin online as a .pdf file, on a
password-protected web page available to ICA members.
2.
We continue to also
mail printed copies to members and subscription holders.
3.
Refereed research
articles (from Volume 79 on) are now published on the ICA web pages, i.e.,
“diamond” open access.
4.
New: Tables of
contents (from Volume 79 on) are now available on the ICA web pages.
g.
ICA Web Pages
i. Luca Giuzzi was approved as webmaster for the ICA in 2017. •
Official ICA web pages: http://the-ica.org
ii. Luca redesigned and maintains the ICA web pages.
iii. The web pages contain the ICA logo (next slide).
iv. If you have not done so, check them out! They contain a lot
of useful information and look very nice.
h.
ICA logos
i. On wiki, the-ica.org, and the blog
i.
Ongoing and future
initiatives
i. Coffee mugs! $6 available at the conference.
ii. ICA Brochure
iii. BICA articles—more submissions would be desirable!
iv. Online access to BICA
v. Indexing BICA
vi. Press release of medal winners
vii. Citations of medal winners on ICA website
viii.
How You Can Support
the ICA
1.
Buy a coffee mug, or
50 coffee mugs.
2.
Persuade your friends
and students to join the ICA.
3.
Persuade your library
to subscribe to BICA.
4.
Make a donation to
the ICA (see the ICA web pages).
5.
Find a rich
benefactor who will support the ICA as a corporate member.
(2) Financial and Membership Reports (Spyros, 10 minutes)
a.
Operations are at FAU
since Nov. 1 2016.
i. We have hired Cristina Castenada
ii. Issued 459 invoices in this time.
iii. We will have to cut hours, in spite of best efforts to
automate.
b.
Financial summary Feb
28, 2018 – Feb 28, 2019
i. Balance on Feb 28, 2018 $
21,161.83
1.
Total proceeds in above period $ 23,912.50
2.
Total funds for the period $ 45,074.33
3.
Total expenses during period $ 27,347.23
ii. Balance in US funds as of Feb 28,
2019 $ 17,727.10
iii. Note Expenses exceed Proceeds.
iv. Summary of expenses
1.
Support
for 3 Combin. Confs. $ 3,000.00
2.
BICA
vols 81, 82, 83 $ 10,185.52
3.
Admin.
& credit card fees $ 2,357.74
4.
ICA
office secretary $ 11,634.82
5.
Incidentals
$ 169.15
6.
Total expenses $ 27,347.23
c.
Member category distributions
|
i. MTICA
|
16
|
|
ii.
AFTICA
|
60
|
|
iii.
FTICA
|
349
|
|
iv.
Lifetime members
|
58
|
|
v. Honorary members
|
5
|
|
vi.
New members (since
2017)
|
57
|
|
vii.
Retired members
|
72
|
|
viii.
“never paid”
persons
|
0
|
|
ix.
Members in arrears
|
0
|
(3) Election of New Council Members and Executive (Sarah, 5
minutes)
a.
Council members
i. Approved by show of hands. Motion: Brooks Reid, Bert
Hartnell.
b.
Executive
i. Approved by show of hands. Motion: Ebrahim Salehi, Second: Neil
Carnes
(4) Approval of Medal Eligibility Changes (Sarah, 5 minutes)
a.
Motion 1 (Hall
eligibility by year not by age)
i. Approved by show of hands. Motion: Ron Mullin, Second: Mark Ellingham
b.
Motion 2 (Euler
eligibility by career not necessarily ending)
i. Approved by show of hands. Motion: Charlie Colborne, Second:
James Hammer
(5) Questions and Discussion (Dalibor, 10 minutes)
a.
Why can’t Iranian
mathematicians use credit cards?
i. Geopolitical messes
ii. Can’t we accept euros instead of dollars?
iii. Yes, but doesn’t fix the problem
b.
Historical archives?
i. Yes. We should do
that, and start picking at it.
c.
Membership list made
public?
i. Privacy concerns are a real issue. We are considering a password protection
list.
Adjourn: 11:51
Thanks!
The ICA Executive: Dalibor, Sarah,
David and Kiki
The ICA Registrar: Spyros and his
assistant, Cristina
The ICA Webmaster: Luca
The EICs of the Bulletin: Marco Buratti,
Don Kreher, Tran van Trung
ICA Council
Medals and Membership Committee members
(especially Charlie Colbourn for chairing this committee for the past three
years) See you next year!
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