BCC Conference Archive: 2008

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Conferences sponsored or supported by the British Combinatorial Committee:

• Open University Winter Combinatorics Meeting, Milton Keynes, England, UK, 30 January 2008
• Oxford Combinatorics Meeting, Oxford, England, UK, 14 March 2008
• London Combinatorics Conference, London, England, UK, 21-22 May 2008
• Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference, Warwick, England, UK, 21-23 July 2008
• Workshop on extremal combinatorics, Birmingham, England, UK, 15-16 September 2008
• Reading Old Codgers' Combinatorics Colloquium, Reading, England, UK, 5 November 2008

Main conference list

• January 2008
  • DocCourse Combinatorics and Geometry 2008: Additive Combinatorics, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, January - March 2008
  • Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics (MSRI program), Berkeley, CA, USA, January - May 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics (Newton Institute programme), Cambridge, England, UK, 14 January - 4 July 2008
  • LieGrits workshop (Flags, Quivers and Invariant Theory in Lie Representation Theory), Oxford, England, UK, 3-9 January 2008
  • Combinatorics, Oberwolfach, Germany, 6-12 January 2008
  • Finite Groups and Representations, Kaikoura, New Zealand, 14-18 January 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Introductory cross-disciplinary symposium, Cambridge, England, UK, 14-18 January 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Zeros of graph polynomials, Cambridge, England, UK, 21-25 January 2008
  • SODA08 (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), San Francisco, CA, USA, 20-22 January 2008
  • Buildings: Interactions with Algebra and Geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany, 20-26 January 2008
  • Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics: Introductory workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, 28 January - 1 February 2008
  • Open University Winter Combinatorics Meeting, Milton Keynes, England, UK, 30 January 2008

• February 2008
  • Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2008), Pisa, Italy, 11-15 February 2008
  • Lie Theory Workshop (in honour of Georgia Benkart), La Jolla, CA, USA, 16-18 February 2008
  • Representation theory of finite dimensional algebras, Oberwolfach, Germany, 17-23 February 2008
  • Chat Yin Ho Memorial Conference on Combinatorics and Groups, Gainesville, FL, USA, 21-24 February 2008

• March 2008
  • Thirty-Ninth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 3-7 March 2008
  • Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics: Homological Methods in Representation Theory, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3-7 March 2008
  • LUMS 2nd international conference on mathematics and its applications in information technology, Lahore, Pakistan, 9-12 March 2008
  • Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics: Lie Theory, Berkeley, CA, USA, 10-14 March 2008
  • Packing, energy minimization, and exceptional structures (5-day EIDMA/DIAMANT minicourse by Henry Cohn), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 10-14 March 2008
  • A celebration of Karl Gruenberg, London, England, UK, 13 March 2008
  • Oxford Combinatorics Meeting, Oxford, England, UK, 14 March 2008
  • CO2008 (Combinatorial Optimization), Coventry, England, UK, 16-19 March 2008
  • Groups and Computation, Columbus, OH, USA, 17-21 March 2008
  • Local and global properties of groups and related objects (in honor of George Glauberman), Chicago, IL, USA, 24-28 March 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and generalisations, Cambridge, England, UK, 25-28 March 2008
  • BEST (Boise Extranvaganza in Set Theory), Boise, ID, USA, 28-30 March 2008

• April 2008
  • The Algebraic Structure of Profinite Groups, Egham, England, UK, 2-8 April 2008
  • 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA'08), Buffalo, NY, USA, 7-9 April 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Combinatorial identities and applications, Cambridge, England, UK, 7-11 April 2008
  • Graph decomposition, theory, logics and algorithms, Luminy, France, 7-11 April 2008
  • Postgraduate Group Theory conference, Oxford, England, UK, 9-11 April 2008
  • Groups and geometries, Oberwolfach, Germany, 20-26 April 2008
  • Grand opening of EiPSI center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 21-22 April 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Quantum field theory and statistical mechanics methods in enumeration, Cambridge, England, UK, 21-25 April 2008
  • MIGHTY (Midwest Graph Theory) XLVI, Morgantown, WV, USA, 25-26 April 2008

• May 2008
  • Interdisciplinary research in logic, group theory and theoretical computer science, New York, NY, USA, 2 May 2008
  • New directions in algorithms, combinatorics and optimization (for the 65th birthday of William T. Trotter), Atlanta, GA, USA, 5-9 May 2008
  • Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Day, Ottawa, Canada, 9-10 May 2008
  • Ottawa-Carleton Graph Theory Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, 11-13 May 2008
  • ROGICS'08 (International Conference on Relations, Orders and Graphs: Interaction with Computer Science), Mahdia, Tunisia, 12-15 May 2008
  • Groups in Galway, Galway, Ireland, 16-17 May 2008
  • Topological and geometric graph theory (TGGT 2008), Paris, France, 19-23 May 2008
  • London Combinatorics Conference, London, England, UK, 21-22 May 2008
  • International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008), Sanya, Hainan, China, 28-30 May 2008
  • Festive Combinatorics (in honor of Anders Björner's 60th birthday), Stockholm, Sweden, 28-30 May 2008
  • 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, Sanya, Hainan, China, 28-30 May 2008

• June 2008
  • Hash functions in cryptology: theory and practice, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2-6 June 2008
  • 23rd Math/Chem/Comp conference, Verbania, Italy, 10-13 June 2008 (and 4th IAMC meeting, 9 June 2008)
  • HPOPT 2008: Algebraic structure in semidefinite programming, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 11-13 June 2008
  • SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics (DM08), Burlington, VT, USA, 16-19 June 2008
  • ATINER conference, Athens, Greece, 16-19 June 2008
  • Nordstat2008 (22nd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics), Vilnius, Lithuania, 16-19 June 2008
  • Math/Chem/Comp course, 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 16-21 June 2008
  • Groups and their applications, Birmingham, England, UK, 18 June 2008
  • Combinatorics 2008, Costermano, Italy, 22-28 June 2008
  • Profinite and asymptotic group theory, Oberwolfach, Germany, 22-28 June 2008
  • 20th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2008), Valparaiso, Chile, 23-27 June 2008
  • Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics: Combinatorial and probabilistic inequalities, Cambridge, England, UK, 23-27 June 2008
  • Seventh Iberoamerican Conference on Topology and its Applications, Valencia, Spain, 25-28 June 2008
  • 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, USA, 29 June - 2 July 2008
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Algebraic geometry, Leiden, Netherlands, 30 June - 4 July 2008

• July 2008
  • LMS Graduate student meeting, London, England, UK, 4 July 2008
  • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TFMCS-08), Orlando, FL, USA, 7-10 July 2008
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Modules and representation theory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-12 July 2008
  • Algebraic Aspects of Association Schemes and Scheme Rings, Regina, Canada, 8-11 July 2008
  • Classification of finite p-groups by coclass and beyond, Cambridge, England, UK, 11 July 2008
  • 3rd Research Workshop on Flexible Network Design, Coventry, England, UK, 13-16 July 2008
  • 5th European Congress of Mathematics (5ECM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-18 July 2008. Mini-symposia include Algebra in optimization; Combinatorics of hard problems; Discrete structures in geometry and topology; Graphs and matroids; Mathematics of cryptology; Mathematical logic (E W Beth centenary); Representation theoretical methods and quantization.
  • Industrial conference on data mining, Leipzig, Germany, 16-18 July 2008
  • International symposium on symbolic and algebraic computation (ISSAC2008), Hagenberg, Austria, 20-23 July 2008
  • 3rd workshop on statistics, mathematics and computation and 1st Polish-Portuguese workshop on biometry, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-22 July 2008
  • Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference, Warwick, England, UK, 21-23 July 2008
  • Design of Experiments (Newton Institute programme), Cambridge, England, UK, 21 July - 15 August 2008
  • Design of Experiments: Advanced topics in design of experiments, Cambridge, England, UK, 21-25 July 2008
  • First De Brún Workshop on Computational Algebra, Galway, Ireland, 21 July - 1 August 2008
  • DATICS 2008 (Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 22-24 July 2008
  • 5ECM satellite meeting: Bridges: Mathematics, music, art, architecture, culture, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 24-28 July 2008

• August 2008
  • Computational Group Theory and Cohomology, Grantham, England, UK, 4-8 August 2008
  • Building Bridges (for the 60th birthday of Laci Lovász), Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 August 2008
  • BLAST (Boolean algebras, Lattices, Algebraic logic, universal algebra, Set theory, set-theoretic Topology and point-free topology), Denver, CO, USA, 6-10 August 2008
  • Fete of Combinatorics and Computer Science, Keszthely, Hungary, 11-15 August 2008
  • Design of Experiments: Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA2008), Cambridge, England, UK, 11-15 August 2008
  • Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 4, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands, 17-22 August 2008
  • DTVCS 2008 (Design, Testing and Formal Verification Techniques for Integrated Circuits and Systems), Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, 18-20 August 2008, special session at CS 2008

• September 2008
  • X Spanish meeting on cryptology and information theory, Salamanca, Spain, 2-5 September 2008
  • Things you can do with with SL(2) - the mathematics of 2x2 matrices, Haifa, Israel, 14-18 September 2008
  • Workshop on extremal combinatorics, Birmingham, England, UK, 15-16 September 2008
  • DIAMANT-Summer School on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 15-19 September 2008
  • Discrete geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany, 21-27 September 2008

• October 2008
  • Groups and Applications (LMS Triangle meeting), London, UK, 1 October 2008
  • DIAMANT algorithms day, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 13 October 2008
  • Computational Geometry and Discrete Mathematics, Kyoto, Japan, 16-18 October 2008
  • 2nd Polish Combinatorics Conference, Będlewo, Poland, 17-23 October 200:
  • Algorithms day, Warwick, England, UK, 24 October 2008
  • MAMLS 2008 (in honour of Gregory Cherlin's 60th birthday), Piscataway, NJ, USA, 24-26 October 2008
  • Conference on Symmetries in Algebra and Number Theory, Göttingen, Germany, 27-30 October 2008

• November 2008
  • International Symposium on Operational Research, Tipaza, Algeria, 2-6 November 2008
  • Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3-7 November 2008
  • Reading Old Codgers' Combinatorics Colloquium, Reading, England, UK, 5 November 2008
  • MIGHTY XLVII (MIdwest GrapH TheorY), Chicago, IL, USA, 8 November 2008
  • Combinatorial optimization, Oberwolfach, Germany, 9-15 November 2008
  • Kolloquium über Kombinatorik, Magdeburg, Germany, 14-15 November 2008
  • Geometric invariants of groups (autumn school), Göttingen, Germany, 17-21 November 2008
  • Set theory, games, and bounded arithmetic (Set Theory and its Neighbours 17), Bristol, England, UK, 19 November 2008
  • Lie methods in group theory, Trento, Italy, 28 November 2008
  • Amenability: Groups and Dynamics, Jerusalem, Israel, 30 November - 5 December 2008

• December 2008
  • Workshop on spectral graph theory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1-4 December 2008
  • Nonnegative matrix theory: generalizations and applications, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 1-5 December 2008
  • Short course on randomized algorithms, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7 December 2008
  • ACCOTA 2008 - Combinatorial and Computational Aspects of Optimization, Topology and Algebra, Oaxaca, Mexico, 7-8 December 2008
  • 7th Australia – New Zealand Mathematics Convention, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8-12 December 2008 special sessions: Algorithmics; Group Actions and Representation Theory
  • Workshop on infinite group theory followed by LMS/EMS joint meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 10-13 December 2008
  • 4th international conference on combinatorial mathematics and combinatorial computing (4-ICC), Auckland, New Zealand, 15-19 December 2008
  • Kac-Moody Groups - a Profinite Perspective, Egham, England, UK, 17 December 2008
  • DIMACS Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Statistical Mechanics, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 17-18 December 2008
  • Winter school on Graphs and Algorithms, Kyoto, Japan, 17-22 December 2008

Peter Cameron
p.j.cameron at qmul.ac.uk
24 November 2008

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