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2023 ICA Annual General Meeting PART I: President’s Report Charles J. Colbourn Mission of the ICA • The ICA was established in 1990 by Ralph Stanton for the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its applications. • The three most important functions of the ICA are:      • publishing the Bulletin of the ICA      • supporting conferences, and      • awarding medals and honorary fellowships. ICA Executive Charles Colbourn President 2022-2025 Dalibor Froncek Vice-President 2022-2025 David Pike Vice-President 2022-2025 Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng Vice-President 2020-2023 To Be Elected Vice-President 2023-2026 Sarah Holliday Secretary 2022-2025 Bryan Freyberg Registrar Doug Stinson Past President Spyros Magliveras Registrar Emeritus Members of ICA Council (2022–2023) Subramanian Arumugam 2021-2024 Darryn Bryant 2022-2025 Yeow Meng Chee 2020-2023 Charles Colbourn 2022-2025...

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

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

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

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

      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA       ...

    For immediate release                                                           Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA         ...

      For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA       ...

  For immediate release                                                            Contact: Sarah Holliday March 9, 2023                                                                                      Secretary of the ICA          ...