14. Combinatorics

Combinatorial structures. Enumeration: exact and asymptotic. Graph theory. Probabilistic and extremal combinatorics. Designs and finite geometries. Relations with linear algebra, representation theory and commutative algebra. Topological and analytical techniques in Combinatorics. Combinatorial geometry. Combinatorial number theory. Matroids. Polyhedral combinatorics and combinatorial optimization.

INVITED SPEAKERS


Alexander  Barvinok      
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
The complexity of generating functions for integer points in polyhedra and beyond
Wednesday, August 23, 15:00-15:45
 
Mireille  Bousquet-Mélou      
Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France
Rational and algebraic series in combinatorial enumeration
Wednesday, August 23, 16:00-16:45

Bert  Gerards       
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Towards a structure theory for matrices and matroids
Monday, August 28, 15:00-15:45

Mark  Haiman        
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Combinatorial theory of Macdonald polynomials
Wednesday, August 23, 17:00-17:45

Jeong  Han Kim      
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
Poisson cloning model for random graph 
Saturday, August 26, 17:00-17:45

Tomasz  Luczak         
Adam  Mickiewicz University, Poznán, Poland
Randomness and regularity
Wednesday, August 30, 16:00-16:45
 
Imre  Ruzsa 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Additive combinatorics and geometry of numbers
Wednesday, August 30, 17:00-17:45

Francisco  Santos
Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Triangulations of polytopes
Monday, August 28, 16:00-16:45

Robin  Thomas       
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Pfaffian orientations of graphs
Saturday, August 26, 18:00-18:45