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. The open problems session on Tuesday 6/9 will also take place in Gregory 213.

See below for the schedule. For titles and abstracts for each day, scroll to the bottom of this page.

June 9, Tuesday (EXCILL V Day I)

8:30-9:00 Shira Zerbib
9:05-9:35 Fan Wei
9:50-10:20 Louis DeBiasio
10:25-10:55 Haoran Luo
11:00-11:30 Bob Krueger
LUNCH BREAK
12:45-13:00 Coffee
13:00-13:30 Tao Jiang
13:40-14:10 Jan Volec
14:15-14:45 Ryan Martin
14:55-15:25 Cory Palmer
15:30-16:00 Yi Zhao
16:10-16:40 William Linz
16:50-17:20 Bernard Lidický
17:25-17:55 Lina Li
18:00-18:30 Pizza (in Harker Hall 300)
18:35-19:35 Open problems session (Greg 213)

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
LUNCH BREAK
12:40-13:10 Cake (in Harker Hall 300)
13:10-13:20 Coffee
13:20-13:50 Tom Kelly
13:55-14:25 Michael Simkin
14:35-15:05 Marcelo Sales
15:15-15:45 Caroline Terry
15:50-16:20 Yan Wang
16:30-17:00 Theo Molla
17:05-17:35 Florian Pfender
18:00 Sports activities: soccer/tennis/volleyball

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

9:00-9:45 Dhruv Mubayi
9:55-10:15 Ruth Luo
10:25-10:45 Hal Kierstead
10:50-11:35 Jaehoon Kim
LUNCH BREAK
12:45-13:10 Coffee
13:10-13:55 Anton Bernshteyn
14:05-14:25 Ilkyoo Choi
14:35-14:55 Matthew Yancey
15:00-15:20 Xuding Zhu
15:25-15:45 Xujun Liu
15:55-16:15 Gexin Yu
16:20-16:40 Douglas West
16:45-17:15 Zoltán Füredi
17:15-17:25 Group Photo
18:00-20:00 Banquet
21:00-23:00 South Korea vs Czechia FIFA game

abstracts_EXCILLV.pdf

Excill_V_Open_Problems.pdf

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