Conference: Shanks Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory

“Shanks组合数学和图论研讨会”将于2024年4月13日至14日在范德比尔特大学举行。研讨会的重点将是结构图理论，极值组合学，图着色，拉姆齐理论，以及它们的交叉点。研讨会将突出这些领域的重大近期成就，并为研究人员提供一个平台，分享最新的见解和工具，交流他们的工作，分享开放的问题，并建立新的合作。研讨会的目标是：（1）将组合学和图论的研究人员聚集在一起，交流和交换意见;（2）促进参与者之间的开放式问题分享和讨论;（3）使初级研究人员了解这些领域的最新发展;（4）拓宽和激发青年、女性、组合学领域关注离散环境中的问题和技术。它与数学的其他领域密切相关，并有许多应用，从进化生物学到计算机科学，从逻辑到统计物理。图论是组合数学中最古老的部分之一，它与其他领域有着许多天然的联系。研讨会将有两名全体演讲者和八名早期职业演讲者。此外，我们计划组织一个开放问题会议和一个讨论会，使研讨会的参与者能够就与更大的数学和计算机科学界相关和有趣的开放问题交换见解和想法。研讨会网站位于https://my.vanderbilt.edu/cgt2024/.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The “Shanks Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory” will take place at Vanderbilt University, April 13-14, 2024. The focus of the workshop will be on structural graph theory, extremal combinatorics, graph coloring, Ramsey theory, and their intersections. The workshop will highlight significant recent achievements in these areas and provide a platform for researchers to share recent insights and tools, communicate their work, share open problems, and build new collaborations. The goals of the workshop are to (1) bring together researchers in combinatorics and graph theory to communicate and exchange ideas; (2) promote open problem-sharing and discussions among participants; (3) expose junior researchers to the latest developments in these areas; and (4) broaden and stimulate the research of junior, female, and underrepresented researchers.The field of combinatorics concerns problems and techniques in discrete settings. It is closely related to other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from evolutionary biology to computer science and from logic to statistical physics. Graph theory is one of the oldest parts of combinatorics, and it has numerous natural connections to other areas. The workshop will feature two plenary speakers and eight early-career speakers. Moreover, we plan to organize an open problem session and a discussion session that allows participants of the workshop to exchange insights and ideas on open problems that are relevant and interesting to the larger mathematics and computer science community. The workshop website is located at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/cgt2024/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.