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, promote the research of the regional combinatorics community, and provide a forum for presentation and discussion of developments in the field of combinatorics.

For more information about the CombinaTexas series, click here.

Plenary Speakers

• Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University.
  • Title: Combinatorial Reciprocity Theorems
• Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University.
  • Title: Configuration spaces of disks in a strip
• Caroline Klivans, Brown University.
  • Title: On the connectivity of three-dimensional tilings
• Kyungyong Lee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
  • Title: The dimension of the frieze variety
• Isabella Novik, University of Washington.
  • Title: Face numbers of centrally symmetric polytopes
• Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota.
  • Title: Zamolodchikov periodicity and integrability

Schedule and Abstracts

All the academic activities will be held at Blocker Building on the Texas A&M Campus; here is an interactive campus map .
Registration and break -- Blocker 140-141
Plenary talks -- Blocker 166
Contributed sessions -- Blocker 166 & 164.

PDF file for schedule only.

PDF file for all the schedule and talks

Saturday, Morning February 10

Saturday Afternoon, February 10

Sunday, Morning, February 11

Location, Transportation, Parking

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

Shuttle service from the conference hotel (Hampton Inn) to Blocker building will be provided at 7:45am on both Saturday and Sunday morning. Return shuttle service to the hotel will be provided at 8:00pm after the conference dinner on Saturday evening.

The Northside Garage (NSG) is located directly across from the Blocker Building (BLOC) and has space for visitor parking. During the weekend, you can also park for free at any un-reserved space in a numbered lot, such as Lot 50 and Lot 51. The interactive campus map also lists available parking lots.

Texas A&M University is located in College Station, Texas, which by automobile lies about 1 hour and 45 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) and United Airlines (connecting to Houston). There is also a shuttle service from Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby Airport in Houston and a shuttle service from Austin-Bergstrom 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 one weeks prior to the conference. Participants will be housed at the Hampton Inn College Station . Graduate students should expect to share a room. If you are not receiving financial support from the conference, you can stay in any hotel in town. Below are some hotels that are within walking distance to the conference site. Please check the rate and availability with the hotels directly.

• Home2 Suites by Hilton College Station , 300 Texas Ave, College Station, TX 77840
• La Quinta Inn College Station, 607 Texas Ave, College Station, TX 77840
• Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Bryan College Station , 4613 Texas Ave, Bryan, TX 77802
• Embassy Suites by Hilton College Station, 201 University Dr E, College Station, TX 77840
• Econo Lodge, 104 Texas Ave. South, College Station, TX 77840

Conference Dinner

A conference dinner will be held on Saturday, May 7th in BLOC 141. There will be vegetarian options. It is free for registered participants, and $15.00 for each un-registered guest.

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