Bill Martin's list of conferences

Two web pages that I know of which attempt to maintain lists of upcoming conferences in combinatorics are those of Peter Cameron at the Queen Mary University of London and Doug West at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What I have is simply a list of (mostly past) meetings that I have been involved with, either as organizer or as speaker.

Some Upcoming Conferences

• Discrete Math Day at WPI, a one-day conference on combinatorics and related topics, May 23rd, 2010.

• Schemes and Spheres, an intensive one-week workshop on topics related to cometric association schemes, to be held at WPI May 24-28, 2010.

• Fourth Pythagorean Conference May 30 to June 4, 2010, Corfu, Greece. An Advanced Research Workshop in Geometry, Combinatorial Designs & Cryptology

• SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, June 14-17, 2010, Austin Texas.

• ISIT2010, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 13-18, 2010, Austin, TX.

• Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics Conference 2010 July 12-16, 2010, Gyeongju, South Korea.

• ITW 2010 Dublin IEEE Information Theory Workshop, August 30 to September 3, 2010, Dublin, Ireland.

• AMS 2010 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting Richmond, VA, November 6-7, 2010.
  (A Special Session on "Codes and Designs" is being organized by James Davis and Qing Xiang.)

• 2010 CMS Winter Meeting Canadian Mathematical Society, December 4-6, 2010, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
  (A Special Session on "Theory and Application of Sequences and Arrays" is being organized by Jonathan Jedwab and Brett Stevens.)

• Linear Algebraic Techniques in Combinatorics/Graph Theory (Kharaghani, et al., organizers). A 5-day workshop at the Banff International Research Station, January 30 to February 4, 2011, Banff Alberta, Canada.
• Algebraic Graph Theory (Chris Godsil and Michael Newman, organizers). A 5-day workshop at the Banff International Research Station, April 24-29, 2011, Banff Alberta, Canada.
• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 5, Oisterwijk, Holland, August 14-19, 2011.

Some Past Conferences

• ALCOMA10, a conference on designs and codes. It will take place near Bayreuth (Schloss Thurnau), April 11-18, 2010.

• CIMPA-UNESCO Summer School "Semidefine Programming in Algebraic Combinatorics" Manila, The Philippines, held at the University of the Philippines July 20 to August 3, 2009.
  See here for some information on this meeting.

• 2009 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, held June 6-8 2009 at Memorial University, Newfoundland.

• Fields Institute Workshop on Cocliques and Colourings, held June 1-5, 2009 at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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• IPM 20 -- Combinatorics 2009, held May 15-21, 2009 at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  
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• American Mathematical Society 2009 Spring Eastern Section Meeting Worcester, MA, April 25-26, 2009. Sylvia Hobart and I organized a special session on algebraic combinatorics and a one-day follow-up workshop on algebraic graph theory.

  See below for two pictures.

• Workshop on Invariants of Incidence Matrices organized by C. Godsil, P. Sin and Q. Xiang, held at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Alberta, Canada, March 29 to April 3, 2009.

• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 4 in Oisterwijk, Holland, August 17-22, 2008.

• SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Burlington, Vermont, June 16-19, 2008. At this conference, I organized a mini-symposium entitled ``Combinatorial Problems in Quantum Information Theory''.

• Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, Waterloo, Ontario, May 23-24, 2008.

• AMS 2007 Fall Central Section Meeting DePaul University, Chicago, IL October 5-6, 2007. Special session on "Algebraic Combinatorics: Association schemes and related topics" organized by Sung Yell Song and Paul Terwilliger.

• Algebraic Combinatorics, an international conference in honour of Eiichi Bannai's 60th birthday, June 26-30, 2006, Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan
  Organizers: Akihiro Munemasa (Tohoku), Mitsugu Hirasaka (Pusan), Tatsuro Ito (Kanazawa), Izumi Miyamoto (Yamanashi) and Sung-Yell Song (Iowa).

  Some picutres from Yamadera mountain temple can be found below.

• ASCM 2005 Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, December 8-10, 2005. Special Session on "Computer Algebra and Combinatorics" (Jack Koolen, chair; Bill Martin, co-chair).

• Special Session on Association Schemes and Related Topics, AMS 2005 Fall Central Section Meeting, Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005 (Sung Yell Song and Paul Terwilliger, organizers)

• Discrete Math Day at WPI 2005 Saturday, September 10, 2005

• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 3 Oisterwijk, Netherlands, August 14-19, 2005.

• 2004 Com²MaC Conference on Association Schemes, Codes and Designs

• Association Schemes: 1973--2003

• Discrete Math Day at WPI 2003

Some Pictures from Various Meetings

• AMS Worcester: photos by Dr. Jianmin Ma
  
  
• Yamadera Tohoku Japan: pictures by Dr. Michael Lang