This is a list of conferences and talks in the foreseeable future that are relevant to people in AC group in TU/e (which stands for Algebraic Combinatorics and includes, roughly speaking, people related to Aida in some way, mostly as her students). I like to keep this list up to date mostly for the sake of my academic siblings (and my own), but if you are in the same field / position / community as me then you might find something relevant for yourself as well.
Pretty extensive lists of links to Combinatorial Conferences: Douglas B. West's list, Janos Pach's list, conference-service.com.
TU/e Academic Year Agenda (Autumn 2024)
January
November 18 - December 16, January 6, January 20 - February 10: An LNMB course Networks and Semidefinite Programming by Monique Laurent and Sven Polak will have lectures on Mondays in Utrecht. It seems like the AC PhDs are all going.
Link: https://www.lnmb.nl/pages/courses/phdcourses/NSP.html
January 13 - 15: The annual LNMB conference will take place in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. The focus is Operations Research, so many CO PhD students go there usually. The registration is now open.
Link: https://www.lnmb.nl/conferences/2025/
January 23: Antonina Khramova (me!) is giving a talk at the seminar in Tilburg University. The talk will be similar to the one I gave at the CO seminar in November before. The announcement will appear on the seminar's webpage when the time is right.
Link: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/economics-and-management/news-and-events/seminars/operations-researchJanuary 27-31: SWI will take place in Utrecht. The idea is that there are six industry problems which mathematicians are invited to propose solutions to within the week.
Link: https://www.swi-wiskunde.nl/swi2025/information/for-mathematicians/January 31: Luuk is presenting at the CO seminar! The talk will be on the topic that he is presenting at CCSW coding workshop in early March, but probably a longer version of that.
Link: TBA
TU/e Academic Year Agenda (Spring 2025)
February
February 10 - 11, 13 - 15: Indo-Spanish Pre-Conference School on Algorithms and Combinatorics and 11th Annual International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM) in PSG College of Technology (Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India). Aida Abiad and Mark de Berg are some of the organizers. For the conference, currently there is a call for papers describing original research in either algorithms or discrete applied mathematics (submission deadline is September 27). Early registration deadline for the conference is December 31 2024.
For the school, the invited speakers include Aida Abiad, Sergio Cabello, Kolja Knauer, and Simeon Ball. Attending the school (combining with the conference or separately) is free. There is also Young Researchers Forum which will take place on day 1 of the school, and it is said that all selected students are expected to do a 5 minutes presentation on their research related to CALDAM topics. The registration for the school is open.
Link: https://caldam2025.psgtech.ac.in/
February 21: A SPOR PhD Day, on which the earlier stage PhD students (1st and 2nd years) will present their research to SPOR for practice and connecting to each other a little more. All SPOR/CO/AC are expected to attend or apply to participate if eligible.
March
March 5 - 7: Error-correcting codes and combinatorial structures workshop is organized by our coding friends (Alberto, Altan, and Benjamin) in Eindhoven. Luuk is presenting, and at least Aida and I are planning to be there as well.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/ccsw2025/home
March 21: Nils is presenting at the CO seminar! The talk will be on the topic he is also planning to present at the Dutch Days of Combinatorics the week after, but the longer version of it (DDoC is likely a lightning talk).
Link: TBA
March 25 - 26: The Dutch Days of Combinatorics are hosted by TU Delft this year. This is probably the most important national combinatorics event, usually with a lot of focus on algebraic combinatorics and graph theory, and I personally like it very much and excited to go. Registration is already open, and you can apply for a lightning talk in the form. There are also slots for short talks in addition to plenary and lightning talks, but there is currently no information on whether it is possible to apply for those and how.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/ddoc2025/
April
April 22 - 24: Easter will be on April 20 in 2025, so in the week after it we expect NMC (Dutch Congress of Mathematics) and likely a spring DIAMANT symposium right after it.
Link: https://mathematischcongres.nl/
June
June 1 - 6: Fifth Pythagorean Conference in Kalamata, Greece, on finite geometry, algebraic combinatorics, coding theory, and other things we like. The list of invited speakers includes: Ferdinand Ihringer, Klavdija Kutnar, Sam Mattheus, and Alessandro Montinaro. It is also possible to submit a 30-minute contributed talk, the submission deadline is March 1. There is no clear registration form on the website nor a deadline specified, but it is mentioned that there is no registration fee.
Link: https://cargo.wlu.ca/5thPythagorean/
June 2 - 6: NetSci Conference is held in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The list of topic is very extensive, seems to include anything networks, and can be found on the webpage. Right now there is no program available yet, but the information suggests there will be an international school and conference parts. Deadline for early registraion is February 25, and the abstract submission/mini-symposia proposals deadlines have passed.
Link: https://netsci2025.github.io/The week of June 9th: Possibly the 8th edition of the Dutch-Belgian Seminar will take place in Brussels. There are no hard announced plans yet though, so both the date and the place might change by then. Keep an eye on the webpage or on your inbox for updates.
Link: https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl/dutchbelgiandiscretemathseminar.htmlJune 22 - 27: 8th GEMS conference (Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces) will happen in Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia. The topics include maps and algebraic methods in topological graph theory, but my understanding is that the algebraic graph theory that we do in AC is also relevant. I have heard quite a few good things about the previous editions of the event from our Slovenian/Slovakian colleagues, so sounds very interesting! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 18, and the accommodation can be arranged by contacting the hotel representative by email <rec.slovakia@slktn.sk>. There is more information about rooms and rates for participants in the announcement mail, which I can forward to you if you do not have it and interested in learning more.
Link: https://gems2025.savbb.sk/June 22 - 28: Combinatorics around the q-Onsager algebra conference on the occasion of 70th birthday of Paul Terwilliger, a.k.a. TerwilligerFest, will take place in Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. One of the topics lists algebraic graph theory relevant to distance-regular graphs and association schemes, algebra and representations, and Lie theory, which is relevant to what we have been working on in AC, and the list of confirmed invited speakers includes a lot of familiar names. The abstract submission deadline is March 5, 2025, and the registration is open now.
Link: https://conferences.famnit.upr.si/event/32/June 23 - 27: Next ILAS conference will be in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. One of the announced minisymposia is Combinatorial matrix theory, with Aida as one of the organizers. Robin and I were at the previous ILAS in Madrid, and it was a great experience, it's a big conference, but not so big that most of the talks are irrelevant simply by nature of covering many topics. On the contrary, the event is in linear algebra, so there is always something at least somewhat interesting happening, and last time had a lot of graph and combinatorics focus, too. Registration is now open, early bird deadline is March 31, and there is also student support, which includes fee waivers for members of ILAS (which you can become for free), and also travel and accommodation support for up to 700 USD. The deadline for student support applications is January 31.
Link: https://ilas2025.tw/
Regular online seminars
The group from Waterloo organizes an AGT Seminar that is held weekly on Mondays at 17:30 CET. Let me know if you are interested in getting onto their mailing list, I will put you in contact with the organizing person.
There is a webpage: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~agtheory/
and also a YouTube playlist with recordings of past seminar sessions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_x-9BL_zf4EM4THqG6ZIvMbYqXdmz3QY05C50 Online Seminar of University of Manitoba is a biweekly webinar about matrices and graphs, the talks are usuall on Fridays at 17:00 CET. You can join the mailing list by filling out the subscription form on their webpage.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/05c50online/home?authuser=0Mirka Miller's Combinatorics Webinar has sessions every third Wednesday of the month. The google meet links are posted on their webpage, but there is also a mailing list, you can contact one of the organizers to be put on it.
Link: http://combinatoricswiki.org/wiki/Mirka_Miller%27s_Combinatorics_Webinar_SeriesSeminars on Groups and Graphs is an online seminar for young researchers (PhD students) in finite group theory and spectral graph theory organized by SUSTech in China. The seminar's usual time is Wednesday 10:00 CET (assuming summer time; 16:00 GMT+8), and some talks are in Chinese, but some are in English. To get notified about the latter ones, you can send an email to [groupandgraph@outlook.com] with your name.
Link: https://www.gtseminar.xyz/index.htmlPICS is a biweekly seminar for junior researchers in coding theory. In Fall 2024, the talks will be on Tuesdays at 4pm CET (not the occasional overlap with the TU/e SPOR seminar time). You can fill out a form on the webpage to receive announcements.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/picseminar/homeThe group from Caserta organizes an eSeminar "Galois geometries and their applications" with some very nice coding and geometry related talks, so relevant for us. The schedule is somewhat irregular, but there are usually talks once a month. You can find the contacts of the organizers on the seminar's webpage and ask them to include you in the mailing list.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/galoisgeometriesapplications/home(This webinar is currently on a break) AGTIW happens every other Tuesday at 19:00 CET and is managed by Robert Jajcay, mail him [robert.jajcay@fmph.uniba.sk] to get on the list. The zoom links and recordings of the past webinars are available on the webpage.
Link: http://euler.doa.fmph.uniba.sk/AGTIW.html
Further-future events & misc.
12th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics will return to Koper, Slovenia in September 7-13, 2025. Aida is one of the invited speakers, as well as Miguel Angel Fiol; Sebastian Cioaba will give a mini-course. The abstract submission period will be between January 1 and August 5, and there is a limited financial support for PhD students (covers registration fee), deadline for application is April 15.
Link: https://conferences.famnit.upr.si/event/33/12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is scheduled for September 14–19, 2025.
Link: https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/Next edition of Finite Geometry and Friends summer school in VU Brussels will be on September 16-20, 2025, but it was not announced yet.
Next ICM will be in July 23-30, 2026 in Philadelphia, USA.
Next ECM will be in July 17-21, 2028 in Bologna, Italy.