4ICC will be held at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand 15-19 December 2008. The ICC is held approximately every 10 years, and when held it includes the annual ACCMCC meeting of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia and the annual graph-theoretical meetings held in Slovenia/Slovakia/New Zealand/Arizona-Portugal.

Invited Speakers

• Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
  "On the number of non-negative integer and 0-1 matrices with prescribed row and column sums"
• Peter Cameron, Queen Mary College London
  "Synchronization and permutation groups"
• Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
  "Packing seagulls in graphs with no stable set of size three"
• Jan de Gier, University of Melbourne
  "Punctured plane partitions, restricted fully packed loops and the qKZ equation"
• Jesús de Loera, University of California-Davis
  "When combinatorial computing meets algebraic computing: Hilbert's nullstellensatz and feasibility of combinatorial problems"
• Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia
  "The normal quotient philosophy for edge-transitive graphs"
• Chris Rodger, Auburn University
  "Cycle systems with two associate classes"
• Paul Seymour, Princeton University
  "Well-quasi-ordering tournaments and Rao's degree-sequence conjecture"
• Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
  "Is testing a tree easier than finding it?"
• Nick Wormald, University of Waterloo
  "The chromatic number of random graphs"
• Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University
  "Guesseling"

Web quality video of each talk is also available for download and offline viewing.

Key Dates

• 30 September: last day of early registration period and discounted registration fees
• 7 November: deadline for submission of talk titles and abstracts
• 15 November: talk confirmations will be emailed out
• 15 December: conference begins

Contact

For more information and to be put on the conference mailing list to receive more details, contact Mark Wilson at mcw@cs.auckland.ac.nz.