Links to Combinatorial Conferences

Open problems pages (more than 30 problems pages now posted)

Gallery of discrete mathematicians (from conferences, mostly)

Discussion of notation for the numbers of vertices and edges of a graph G.

Conference Series Archives

(Note: Another conference listing for Graph Theory and Combinatorics, more thorough and sophisticated than this one, is at Conference Service Mandl.)

Conferences in 2009

May 25-28, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montreal, Canada Second Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM)
Apr 26-29, Pisa, Italy, International Network Optimization Conference INOC 2009
Mar 27-29, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, AMS Meeting #1047, Special Sessions on Graph Theory and on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics
Feb 18-20, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, 3rd International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2009)
Feb 11-12, Barcelona, Spain, 6th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW2009)
Jan 7-10, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, India, Fifth International Workshop on Graph Labelings (IWOGL 2009)
Jan 5-16, Perth, Australia, Group Theory, Combinatorics, and Computation (in honour of Cheryl Praeger's 60th birthday)
Jan 5-8, Washington, DC, AMS-ASL Special Session on Model Theoretic Methods in Finite Combinatorics
Jan 4-6, New York, NY, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA09)

Conferences in 2008

Dec 15-19, Auckland, New Zealand, 4th International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (4ICC)
Dec 15-17, Gold Coast, Australia, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2008)
Dec 11-13, Coimbatore, India International Conference on Graph Theory and Its Applications
Dec 7-13, Oaxaca, Mexico, ACCOTA 2008 - Combinatorial and Computational Aspects of Optimization, Topology and Algebra
Dec 1-4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Workshop on Spectral Graph Theory with Applications in Computer Science, Combinatorial Optimization, and Chemistry
Nov 25-28, Yokohama, Japan, 20th Workshop on Topological Graph Theory
Nov 14-15, Magdeburg, Germany, 27th Colloquium on Combinatorics
Nov 8, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL, 47th Midwestern Conference on Graph Theory (MIGHTY XLVII)
Oct 17-23, Bedlewo, Poland, Second Polish Combinatorial Conference (2PCC)
Oct 2-3, Clemson, South Carolina 23rd Clemson mini-Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms
Sep 21-24, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
Sep 19-25, Jerusalem-Galilee-Haifa, Israel, Graph Theory, Computational Intelligence and Thought (celebrating Martin C. Golumbic's 60th birthday)
Sep 14-18, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 5th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications (SETA'08)
Sep 15-16, Birmingham, England, Extremal Combinatorics Workshop
Sep 13-15, Nagoya, Japan, 19th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2008) (this year's site not up yet)
Sep 7-12, Tatranska Strba, Slovakia, 17th Cycles and Colourings (C&C 2008)
Sep 8-16, Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy, School on "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications"
Aug 25-27, MIT, Cambridge, MA APPROX 2008 and RANDOM 2008 11th Intl. Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems and 12th Intl. Workshop on Randomization and Computation
Aug 21-24, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 2nd Annual Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2008)
Aug 17-23, Sandbjerg Manor, Sonderborg, Denmark, Graph Theory 2008 (in celebration of the 60th birthday of Carsten Thomassen)
Aug 13-15, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 20th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2008)
Aug 11-15, Keszthely, Lake Balaton, Hungary, Fete of Combinatorics and Computer Science
Aug 5-9, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary, Building Bridges (in honor of the 60th birthday of Laci Lovasz)
Jul 7-18, Erwin Schroedinger Institut (ESI), Vienna, Summer School on "Combinatorics and Statistical Physics"
Jul 7-8, Ashkelon to Haifa, Israel, Compression and Combinatorial Algorithms (CCA) 2008
Jul 6, Reykjavik, Iceland, MATCH-UP: Matching Under Preferences (Satellite of ICALP 2008)
Jun 30-Jul 2, Durham University, U.K. 34th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2008)
Jun 30-Jul 1, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland Operations Research Symposium (in the honour of Thomas Liebling and Dominique de Werra)
Jun 22-28, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL, NSF-CBMS Ergodic Ramsey Theory Conference
Jun 22-28, Costermano, Italy, Combinatorics 2008
Jun 18-20, Pisa, Italy, CPM 2008 - 19th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
Jun 16-Jul 1, Zurich and Ascona, Switzerland, New Algorithmic Paradigms in Optimization (summer school and workshop)
Jun 16-20, Koc University, Turkey, 1st Istanbul Design Theory and Combinatorics Conference (in honor of 70th birthday of Curt Lindner)
Jun 16-19, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, DM08 - 14th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics
Jun 9-13, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan, Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization and Discrete Algorithms
Jun 9-11, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 24th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry
Jun 6-10, University of Mysore, Mysore, India, International Conference on Discrete Mathematics - 2008
Jun 6-7, Moscow, Russia, Russian-Indian Workshop on Algebra, Combinatorics, and Complexity
May 29-31, Dubrovnik, Croatia, ECCO XXI - 21st Meeting of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
May 28-30, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, Festive Combinatorics in honor of Anders Björner's 60th birthday
May 26-28, Bertinoro (Forli'), Italy, 13th Conf. on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization - IPCO XIII
May 21-22, Queen Mary (University of London) and London School of Economics, U. K., Two One-Day Colloquia in Combinatorics
May 19-23, Paris, France, TGGT 2008 - Topological & Geometric Graph Theory (dedicated to Hubert de Fraysseix on his 60th birthday)
May 16-18, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 29th Ohio State - Denison Mathematics Conference (sessions on Combinatorics, Group Theory, and the Theory of Rings and Modules - honoring the 60th birthday of Steve Milne)
May 15-17, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 21st Cumberland Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing (dedicated to Mike Plummer for his 70th birthday)
May 13-15, Gargnano, Italy, 7th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
May 12-17, Mahdia, Tunisia, ROGICS 2008: Relations, Orders and Graphs - Interaction with Computer Science
May 11-13, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa-Carleton Graph Theory Workshop 2008
May 5-June 27, Humboldt-Universitat Berlin, Germany, (Pre)Doc-Course on Random and Quasirandom Graphs
May 9-10, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Conference in honor of 65th birthday of F.R. "Buck" McMorris
May 5-9, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, New Directions in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (honoring the 65th birthday of William T. Trotter)
May 4, Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa, Israel, 8th Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Algorithms, contact Martin Golumbic (golumbic@gmail.com)
May 2-3, Marburg, Germany, Symposium on Discrete Mathematics 2008
Apr 30 - May 2, Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum, Paderborn, Germany, 1st International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 08)
Apr 25-26, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 46th Midwestern Conference on Graph Theory (MIGHTY XLVI)
Apr 19-20, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, CombinaTexas'08: Combinatorics in the South-Central U.S.
Apr 18-19, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Mathematical Abundance: Designs, Graphs and Number Theory (in honor of Charles Vanden Eynden)
Apr 12-13, University of California, Davis, CA, Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference
Apr 7-11, Buzios, Rio d Janeiro, Brazil, 8th Latin American Theoretical INformatics - LATIN 2008
Apr 7-11, CIRM, Luminy, Marseille (France), Workshop on Graph Decomposition: Theoretical, Algorithmic and Logical
Apr 5-6, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, AMS Meeting #1038, Special Sessions on Graph Theory and Topological Combinatorics
Apr 5, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Discrete Mathematics Day
Mar 28-29, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2008 Erdos Lecture Series

Mar 17-19, DIMACS Center, Piscataway, NJ, DIMACS Workshop on Random Matrices
Mar 16-19, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (CO 2008)
Mar 3-7, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 39th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing
Feb 25-29, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Graph Cuts and Related Optimization Problems
Feb 11-15, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Expanders in Pure and Applied Mathematics
Feb 7-8, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Workshop on Algorithms and Computation 2008 (WALCOM 2008)
Jan 27-Feb 1, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Boolean Functions: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (in memory of Peter L. Hammer)
Jan 26, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany, A Saturday on Discrete Mathematics
Jan 20-22, San Francisco, CA, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA08)
Jan 6-9, San Diego, CA, Joint Mathematics Meetings (AMS Meeting #1035), Special Sessions on Graph Theory, Voting Theory, Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs, etc.

Conference Series Archives

Archive sites for conference series provide a valuable record. Links for several appear below. Archives may include such things as lists of talks, participants, and abstracts; even sometimes photos. If anyone knows of archive sites for other conference series in discrete mathematics, please let me know (send information to west @ math . uiuc . edu).

If anyone wants to create such a site for a conference series, I can post that person's emai address so that past attendees can send material (printed material saved by attendees can be scanned and posted). Good candidates for such sites would be EuroComb, AWOCA (Australasian Worshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), CTW (Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization), Ontario Combinatorics Workshops, the Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics and Computing, the MCCCC, the Southeastern International Conferences, Graph Theory Day in New York, etc. I'm sure there are also many other series that would benefit from having such sites.

ACCOTA (Combinatorial and Computational Aspects of Optimization, Topology and Algebra)
ACCMCC (Australasian Conferences in Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing)
BADMath (Bay Area Discrete Mathematics Days)
BCC (British Combinatorial Conferences)
C&C (Workshop on Cycles & Colourings - High Tatras)
CIG (Computational Intelligence and Games
Clemson Mini-Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms
COCOON (Combinatorics and Computing) (maintained by Michael Ley)
Combinatorial Potlatch (Puget Sound area, maintained by Rob Beezer)
CoNE - Combinatorists of New England (series ended after 45 meetings - archive by Ruth Haas)
CombinaTexas (maintained by Catherine Yan)
DIMACS Reconnect Conferences
DIMACS Special Years, all DIMACS Workshops
Discrete Mathematics in New England (maintained by Karen Collins)
Discrete Mathematics Days in the Northeast (maintained by Karen Collins)
FPSAC (Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics)
GD (Graph Drawing) (maintained by Roberto Tamassia)
LATIN (Latin American Theoretical INformatics
MCCCC (Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing) (maintained by Ralucca Gera)
MIGHTY (MIdwest GrapH TheorY) (maintained by Jay Bagga)
MOPTA (McMaster Optimization Conference)
MSRI Workshops (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences)
SIAM Discrete Mathematics, SIAM Discrete Algorithms
WADS (Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures)
WG (International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science)