EXCILL V:

Extremal Combinatorics at Illinois

June 9-11, 2026

The conference will take place in Gregory Hall on the corner of Armory and Wright.

Coffee will be in Gregory 215.

Talks will take place in Gregory 213.

See below for the schedule. For titles and abstracts for each day, see here: June 9, June 10, June 11.

June 9, Tuesday (EXCILL V Day I)

9:00-9:30 Fan Wei
9:35-10:05 Louis DeBiasio
10:20-10:50 Bob Krueger
10:55-11:25 Haoran Luo
11:30-12:00 Shira Zerbib
LUNCH BREAK
13:45-14:15 Tao Jiang
14:20-14:50 Ryan Martin
15:00-15:30 Cory Palmer
15:35-16:05 Yi Zhao
16:15-16:45 William Linz
16:50-17:20 Bernard Lidický
17:25-17:55 Lina Li
18:00-19:30 Pizza/Open problems session

June 10, Wednesday (EXCILL V Day II)

9:00-9:30 Felix Clemen
9:35-10:05 Andrzej Grzesik
10:15-10:45 Hehui Wu
10:50-11:20 Xingxing Yu
11:25-11:55 Marcelo Sales
LUNCH BREAK
13:40-14:10 Tom Kelly
14:15-14:45 Michael Simkin
14:55-15:25 Caroline Terry
15:30-16:00 Yan Wang
16:10-16:40 Theo Molla
16:45-17:15 Florian Pfender
17:30 Sports activities: soccer/tennis/volleyball

June 11, Thursday (EXCILL V Day III: Sasha's Fest)

9:00-9:45 Dhruv Mubayi
10:00-10:20 Ruth Luo
10:25-10:45 Hal Kierstead
10:50-11:10 Ilkyoo Choi
11:15-noon Jaehoon Kim
LUNCH BREAK
13:20 Cake
14:00-14:45 Anton Bernshteyn
14:50-15:10 Matthew Yancey
15:15-15:35 Xuding Zhu
15:40-16:00 Gexin Yu
16:10-16:30 Douglas West
16:35-17:05 Zoltán Füredi
17:05-17:10 Group Photo
18:00-20:00 Banquet
21:00-23:00 South Korea vs Czechia FIFA game

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