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It was almost exactly two years ago in Lunteren after a pitch by Ton de Kok (director of CWI at the time) that the idea for this popped into mind. And now (after a lot of hard work!) it is in full swing. An exciting mix of people at the confluence of combinatorics, algorithms, probability, brought together in Amsterdam over the next couple of months!

https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/

#CWI #conference #combinatorics #probability #algorithms

As part of the CWI thematic research semester programme Phase Transitions in Combinatorics, Algorithms and Probability (PhaseCAP), we organise a series of three colloquia in Amsterdam. Please register via the links below if you want to attend. Registration closes a week before the meeting or when capacity is reached.

Thursday, 2 April — PhaseP colloquium
13:30–14:00 Coffee reception
14:00–15:00 Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford): Stable trees
15:00–16:00 Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon): Notes on two-point concentration in random graphs
16:00–17:30 Drinks reception

Registration: https://www.cwi.nl/en/research/algorithms-and-complexity/events/registration-phasecap-probability-plenary-talks-thursday-2-april-2026/

Friday, 17 April — PhaseC colloquium
13:30–14:00 Coffee reception
14:00–15:00 Penny Haxell (Waterloo): Algorithms for Independent Transversals and Reconfiguration
15:00–16:00 Rob Morris (IMPA): Recent results in Ramsey theory
16:00–17:30 Drinks reception

Registration: https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/17-april-2026-phasecap-combinatorics-plenary-talks/

Friday, 29 May — PhaseA colloquium
14:00–15:00 Leslie Goldberg (Oxford): Fundamental Instability of Backoff Protocols
15:00–16:00 Amin Coja-Oghlan (Dortmund): The cavity method
16:00–17:30 Drinks reception

Registration: https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/registration-phasecap-algorithms-plenary-talks-friday-29-may-2026/

Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues who may be interested.

#combinatorics #probability #algorithms #amsterdam #phasetransitions #CWI

Han La Poutré (CWI) is the new President of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. His term started this month 🚀

“ERCIM is very relevant today, as we contribute to European technological autonomy,” he says.

See: https://edu.nl/9vc99

Picture: Ivar Pel

#ERCIM #CWI #EuropeanResearch #Informatics #Mathematics

New document:

A leaflet for a Socialist Youth Forum in April 2001, from the Socialist Party youth wing, with talks on "The Life and Ideas of Che Guevara" and "What way forward for the Peace Process?"

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7493/

#Ireland #Politics #History #SocialistParty #SocialistYouth #CWI