- Thinking inside the box --- Sami Assaf (University of Southern California, US)
- Lattice points in algebraic & enumerative combinatorics: opportunities and open problems --- Jesús A. De Loera (University of California, Davis, US)
- Catalan numbers and Jack polynomials: the combinatorics of random matrix theory --- Ioana Dumitriu (University of Washington, US)
- The mathematical legacy of Jeff Remmel --- Jim Haglund (University of Pennsylvania, US)
- Combinatorics of the Selberg integral --- Jang Soo Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
- Matroids in tropical and algebraic geometry --- Diane Maclagan (University of Warwick, England)
- Counting spanning trees --- Criel Merino (Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Mexico)
- Combinatorics of Hurwitz numbers --- Gilles Schaeffer (École Polytechnique and CNRS, France)
- Patterns in permutations --- Einar Steingrímsson (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
- Hyperoctahedral symmetric polynomials --- Jan Felipe van Diejen (Universidad de Talca, Chile)