{"id":6,"date":"2026-01-15T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workshop2combinatorics.univie.ac.at\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:15:21","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/workshop2combinatorics.univie.ac.at\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Workshop II \u201cCombinatorics & Asymptotics of discrete planar structures<\/strong>” <\/strong>is a workshop of the ESI Thematic program on Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures<\/a><\/strong> from 19.-23. October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading experts in the following fields and to discuss recent developments such as the the recently explored connections between alternating sign matrices, Grothendieck polynomials and algebraic geometry or the scaling limits of planar graph structures.
Asymptotics and Combinatorics of Planar Maps and Graphs is a very active field of research, attracting significant interest due to its connections to probability theory, statistical physics, and theoretical computer science.
Enumerative questions on tilings, plane partitions, alternating sign matrices and related objects are notorious for being easy to state but often diffcult to prove. Nowadays the area benefits significantly from its increasing interactions with several other areas where these objects are studied from a di\u000berent point of view such as statistical physics (where alternating sign matrices appear in disguise as the six-vertex model), probability (dimer model), representation theory and algebraic geometry (where alternating sign matrices appear in disguise as bumpless pipe dreams).
These connections offer new opportunities and will be central for the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop is now fully booked.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers<\/strong> of the workshop:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Albenque<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9)
Arvind Ayyer<\/a> (Indian Institute of Science)
Mireille Bousquet-M\u00e9lou<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux)
Timothy Budd<\/a> <\/em>(Radboud University)
Guillaume Chapuy<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9))
Mihai Ciucu<\/a> (Indiana University)
Filippo Colomo<\/a> (Universit\u00e0 di Firenze)
Nicolas Curien<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay)
Eric Fusy<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Gustave Eiffel)
Daoji Huang<\/a> (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Matjaz Konvalinka<\/a> (University of Ljubljana)
Michael Krivelevich<\/a> (Tel Aviv University)
Jean-Francois Le Gall<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay)
Cyril Marzouk<\/a> (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique)
Gregory Miermont<\/a> (ENS Lyon)
Konstantinos Panagiotou<\/a> (LMU M\u00fcnchen)
Greta Panova<\/a> (University of Southern California)
Leonid Petrov<\/a> (University of Virginia)
Sigurdur \u00d6rn St\u00e9fansson<\/a> (University of Reykjav\u00edk)
Jessica Striker<\/a> (North Dakota State University)
Benjamin Young<\/a> (University of Oregon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop is co-organised by Michael Drmota (TU Wien), Ilse Fischer (University of Vienna) and Benedikt Stufler (TU Wien).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Partial support is acknowledged from the SFB F 1002<\/a>  \u201cDiscrete random structures: enumeration and scaling limits\u201d by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support of the following organizations is greatly acknowledged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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