The Center for Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame will host a two-week thematic program “Algebraic combinatorics and applications” from June 29 to July 10, 2026. The first week will consist of two learning workshops held in parallel, one for undergraduate students and another for graduate students and postdocs. The second week will be an international research conference. Funding is available for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs (see the links on the right panel).
June 29 – July 3, 2026 Undergraduate and Graduate/PostDoc Week
Undergraduate mini-course lecturers:
Grant Barkley (University of Michigan): Bruhat orders and applications
Amanda Burcroff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Cluster algebras
Colleen Robichaux (University of California, Los Angeles): Schubert calculus
Graduate/postdoc mini-course lecturers:
Thomas Lam (University of Michigan): Positive geometries
Pavlo Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota): T-systems and integrability
Jessica Striker (North Dakota State University): Webs and alternating sign matrices
July 6 – July 10, 2026 International Conference Week
Everyone is welcome to attend the international conference week. There is no registration fee but registration is mandatory (link to the right).
International Research Conference Speakers:
Amanda Burcroff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan)
Christian Gaetz (University of California, Berkeley)
Allen Knutson (Cornell University)
Jacob Matherne (North Carolina State University)
Isabella Novik (University of Washington)
Vincent Pilaud (Universitat de Barcelona)
Martha Precup (Washington University in St. Louis)
Nathan Reading (North Carolina State University)
Colleen Robichaux (University of California, Los Angeles)
Anne Schilling (University of California, Davis)
George Seelinger (University of Michigan)
Melissa Sherman-Bennett (University of California, Davis)
Hunter Spink (University of Toronto)
Anna Weigandt (University of Minnesota)
Alex Yong (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
The conference will end no later than 1pm on Friday, July 10.
Organizers:
David Galvin (University of Notre Dame) dgalvin1@nd.edu
Michael Gekhtman (University of Notre Dame) mgekhtma@nd.edu
Steven Karp (University of Notre Dame) skarp2@nd.edu
For questions about the application process, please contact Nikki Stapleton nstaplet@nd.edu
Funding:
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the following sources:
– Center for Mathematics at Notre Dame
– Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
– National Science Foundation*
*This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2611405. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.