Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic
Combinatorics Meeting
January 26-28, 2018 • McMaster University
Organizers: Megumi Harada and Adam Van Tuyl (McMaster University)
and Mike Zabrocki (York University)
Combinatorial Algebra meets
Algebraic Combinatorics (CAAC)
2018, is part of an annual
series of workshops that began
in 2004 with a meeting titled
Inverse systems meet diagonal
coinvariants at Queen's
University in Kingston, Ontario.
The mathematical constructions
of inverse systems and diagonal
coinvariants overlap, and the
organizers of the original 2004
workshop made an effort to
get researchers from both
sides of this story to talk to one
another to encourage a broader
understanding of the underlying
mathematics from different
mathematical perspectives.
The modified and slightly more
general name for this series
of workshops, Combinatorial
Algebra meets Algebraic
Combinatorics, was adopted
in 2008. These workshops
continue to attract and to
connect mathematicians who
use techniques in commutative
algebra, representation
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theory, geometry, and
combinatorics.
This year’s event was
extremely successful.
Indeed, though this
workshop has always been
held in Eastern Canada,
its scope and reach has
continually grown.
We were also successful
in representing diversity in
our speakers. Out of our 14
talks, seven were delivered by
women researchers. Moreover,
out of our four main speakers,
two were women. From a
geographical standpoint,
our speakers came from
Mexico, Europe, and the US,
in addition to Canada. The
conference was sponsored by
both the Fields Institute and
McMaster University.
Elizabeth Milićević (Haverford College)