CombinaTexas 2025 

 CombinaTexas, a combinatorics conference in the South-Central United States, is an annual regional conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing. It is dedicated to the enhancement of both the educational and research atmospheres of the community of combinatorialists and graph theorists in Texas and the surrounding states. The aim of the CombinaTexas series is to increase communication between mathematicians in the region, pro mote the research of the regional combinatorics community, and provide a forum for presentation and discussion of developments in the field of combinatorics.

Basic Information

Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX,
April 12--13, 2025.
The conference will be in-person.
We plan to start the activities on Saturday morning (April 12), and finish at noon or early afternoon of Sunday (April 13), depending on the number of contributed talks.

Registration

Registration Form  (Closed) 

✽ There is no registration fee. But one must register to attend the conference.

Deadline for applying for financial aid is March 15, 2025

Deadline for submiting contributed talk is March 15, 2025 .

Deadline for Registration is March 31, 2025

 Support

We expect to have a limited amount of support for the conference. The form of the support is that, the conference will book hotel rooms for one or two nights for participants who request and receive financial aid. (Graduate students and postdocs may need to share a double room.) In addition, there is a small amount of support for travel expenses, (up to $200 per person), for which we will give priority to graduate students and recent Ph.Ds with contributed talks. If you are applying for the travel support, please indicate the estimated amount of airfare.
The application for support, as well as submission of contributed talks, should be done through the on-line registration form.

 Plenary Speakers 

• Mark Ellingham , Vanderbilt University.

Title: Maximum genus directed embeddings of digraphs

• Olya Mandelshtam, University of Waterloo.

    Title: A new compact formula for symmetric Macdonald polynomials via interacting particles

• Vic Reiner University of Minnesota

    Title: Koszulity and Stirling Representations 

• Lutz Warnke , University of california San Diego

    Title: Phase Transition in Random Graphs

• Shira Zerbib,Iowa State University

    Title: Using the KKM theorem

All the academic activities will be held on the first floop of Blocker Building on the Texas A&M Campus. This is where the Math Dept locates.
The registration and break room are at BLOC 140/141.
The plenary talks will be given in BLOC 166
For contributed talks, session A is at BLOC 166 and session B is at BLOC 164.
Here is an interactive campus map .

 Location, Transportation, Parking

All the activities will be held at the Blocker Building on the campus of Texas A&M University.

The Northside Garage (NSG) is located directly across from the Blocker Building (BLOC) and has space for visitor parking. (One needs to pay if park here.) During the weekend, you can also park for free at any un-reserved space in a numbered lot, such as Lot 47 and Lot 51. (On the northwest side of the campus, near Univesity Drive and the Bon Fair Memorial)

The interactive campus map also lists available parking lots. Move to the rigth side to see the parking lots 47 and 51.

For details, see Special Parking Regulations at TAMU

Night and weekend parking is available 5 pm to 6 am for valid permit holders in unrestricted/unnumbered spaces in most lots except lots 30, 40, 72, 99 and 122. Night and weekend parking at West Campus Garage begins at 4pm.

No permit is required in unrestricted or plain marked spaces on Saturday, Sunday, or days when the University is officially closed. Exceptions include Lot 30, 40, 72, 99, 122, the golf lot, special event parking and athletic events. Notifications are posted at the entrance to the lot(s) affected during these events.

Texas A&M University is located in College Station, Texas, which by automobile lies about 1 hour and 30 minutes northwest of Houston, 1 hour and 45 minutes east of Austin, and 3 hours south of Dallas. Easterwood Airport in College Station is served by American Airlines (connecting to Dallas). There is a shuttle service from Bush Intercontinental Airport. 

Hotels

Hotel reservations for registered participants who receive financial support will be arranged and billed through the Mathematics Department. Details of your reservation will be sent to the provided email address at least three days prior to the conference. Participants will be housed at Hampton Inn or Super 8. 

Resources

A map of Texas A&M, and driving directions from the College Station airport.

We don't provide child care on site. If you need information about private child-care service available at College Station, please contact the organizers.

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Acknowledgement:

This conference series is supported in part by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) through its Participating Institution (PI) Program. PI members may use IMA/PI funds to support personnel's travel to this conference.

The conference is also supported in part by National Science Foundation, the Combinatorics Foundation, and Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.