Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: an International Combinatorics Conference

Arizona State University, Scottsdale AZ

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Abstract

This award will provide support for US participants, especially women, graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty, to attend the twenty-third and twenty-fourth international conferences entitled Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC), to be held, respectively, in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Nagoya, Japan. The continuing success of the annual FPSAC conferences stems in part from their considerable interdisciplinary breadth -- linking leading researchers in combinatorial mathematics with strong researchers in allied fields drawn from pure and applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, physics, and biology. The span of this conference series is unique among international conferences with an emphasis on combinatorial mathematics. The principal topics featured during the FPSAC 2011 and 2012 conferences will be algebraic, geometric, and enumerative combinatorics. The emphasis will be on applications in physics, biology, and computer science and on relations to other areas of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, K-theory, geometric group theory, representation theory, and symplectic geometry.