42 Years of Alternating Sign Matrices
Dates: September 22 - 26, 2025
Location: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
42 years of ASMs is a week-long conference/workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2025, commemorating the anniversary of the paper "Alternating sign matrices and descending plane partitions" by Mills, Robbins and Rumsey. We welcome contributed talks on the topic of the workshop and also plan to have open problem sessions and/or research meetings. While we cannot offer financial support for participants, there will be no registration fees.
Invited Speakers:
Roger Behrend - The alternating sign matrix polytope (video)
Philippe Di Francesco - Six-vertex model combinatorics and beyond: Determinants and limit shapes (video)
Ilse Fischer - 42 x 1/2 years of operator formula (video)
Christian Krattenthaler - The history of alternating sign matrices (video)
Anna Weigandt - Alternating sign matrices in Schubert calculus (video)
Organizers: Matjaž Konvalinka, Florian Schreier-Aigner, and Jessica Striker.
Organized by Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and co-financed by Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics. Sponsored by the Combinatorics Consortium.