Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Innovations and Challenges in Extremal Combinatorics

NUS IMS Event on Extremal Combinatorics

Part I – Tutorial (Jul 27 to Jul 31, 2026)
The first week will follow the format of a summer school. Three tracks of tutorial lectures on emerging themes in Extremal Combinatorics will be given by leading research mathematicians in their respective areas. The aim is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the background, motivation, previous techniques, and the recent developments in the respective topic — goals that are usually quite challenging to achieve in a typical one-hour seminar talk. The target audience will be Ph.D. students and junior researchers. More details of the tutorials will be updated on this page.

Part II – Workshop (Aug 3 to Aug 7, 2026)
The second week of this program will be a by-invitation-only research workshop, held in a more traditional style, similar to the one-week programs at Banff, Oberwolfach or Mittag-Leffler. Esteemed experts and emerging researchers in Extremal Combinatorics will come together to present recent breakthroughs and work on open problems.



Saturday, 18 July 2026

Monday, 13 July 2026

IMO 2026, Shanghai China

From left: (Trainers) Gabriel Goh, Edden Chew, Cheng Wenhao, (Participants) Lucas Gao, Gao Zixiang, Yang Yihan, Wang Yi, Akash Thiagarajan, Brian Xiao and (Deputy Leader) Lee Chan Lye


Charmaine Sia (Leader) and Lim Jeck (Observer A) have flown to Shanghai earlier on 10 July.