AIS - Advanced Combinatorics (2025)

Venue: Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad

Dates: 15 Dec 2025 to 3 Jan 2026

Convener(s)

 
Name: Prof. Manjil P. Saikia Prof. Eshita Mazumdar
Mailing Address: Assistant Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Ahmedabad University
Commerce Six Roads
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
Gujarat - 380009, India		 Assistant Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Ahmedabad University
Commerce Six Roads
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
Gujarat - 380009
Email: manjil.saikia at ahduni.edu.in  eshita.mazumdar at ahduni.edu.in 

Combinatorics, over the last several decades, has flourished as a distinct (and useful) branch of mathematics. Once thought of only as a bag of tricks, combinatorics is now mainstream and has given impetus to other branches of mathematics as well (in fact, there have been two recent prize awardees (June Huh and Avi Wigderson) of the most prestigious awards in mathematics whose main area of research is combinatorics and related topics). In this AIS, we hope to introduce several different areas of combinatorics to the target audience (mainly PhD students) and display the applicability of combinatorics to answer questions that arise in algebra, probability, and graph theory. We plan to have lectures encompassing enumerative, algebraic, probabilistic and additive combinatorics. This will not only give a broad overview of the subject but also help in looking at some of the major open problems in the areas. Depending on the success of the AIS, we will look at the possibility of organizing a research workshop later with selected participants.