Combinatorial Constructions Workshop (CCW)

June 27-29, 2022, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Description

This is a three-day workshop on Combinatorics supported by the Croatian Science Foundation in scope of the project IP-2020-02-9752. The main topics include, while not limited to: Design Theory, Finite Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Finite Fields and their Applications, Algebraic Combinatorics.

Poster: A4 (5 MB), A3 (10 MB), B2 (20 MB).

Venue

The workshop will take place exclusively on-site at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia. This is a 20-minute walk away from the Zagreb main square (Trg bana Jelačića).

Program

• Conference program
• Book of abstracts
• List of participants
• Conference photo

Invited Speakers

• Raúl Manuel Falcón Ganfornina, University of Seville, Spain — Symmetries of partial Latin rectangles: Fundamentals and applications [mini course]
• Gábor Péter Nagy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary — Local modifications of 2-designs: theory and implementation [mini course]
• Anita Pasotti, University of Brescia, Italy — Heffter arrays: origins, variants and applications
• Valentina Pepe, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy — Some geometric aspects of extremal graphs
• Andrea Švob, University of Rijeka, Croatia — Divisible design Cayley graphs and digraphs
• Alfred Wassermann, University of Bayreuth, Germany — Construction of q-analogs of combinatorial objects with prescribed symmetries [mini course]

Contributed Talks

Participants will have the opportunity to give short 15-minute presentations. If you intend to give a talk, please email your abstract to ccw@fer.hr using the following LaTeX template. The deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2022.

Registration and Fee

Please fill out the registration form. The conference fee is 100 EUR or 750 HRK. It covers conference materials, coffee breaks and lunches (served on-site Monday to Wednesday) and conference dinner (Tuesday evening). Data entered under BILLING INFORMATION will appear on the invoice for the conference fee. After registration, we will contact you with payment details. The deadline for registration is May 15, 2022.

Accomodation

Some hotels near the conference venue:

Moderate

• The Loop Hotel
• Garden Hotel
• Hotel Blue

High-end

• Hotel International
• Westin Zagreb
• Esplanade

Scientific Committee

• Marco Buratti, University of Perugia, Italy
• Marcus Greferath, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Vedran Krčadinac, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Anamari Nakić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Mario Osvin Pavčević, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Leo Storme, Ghent University, Belgium

Organizing Committee

• Anamari Nakić (chair)
• Vedran Krčadinac
• Mario Osvin Pavčević
• Renata Vlahović Kruc
• Kristijan Tabak
• Filip Martinović

Student Volunteers

• Mihaela Bakšić
• Dorian Kablar
• Antonio Lakoš
• Filip Linarić
• Ivan Mihovilović
• Lucija Relić

The meeting was co-organized by the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.