Programme

A full programme will be made available here in late November.

The programme will include:

• The CMSA AGM (on Tuesday 2 December)
• An excursion (on Wednesday 3 December, see below)
• A conference dinner, which will be held at the Wellesley Boutique Hotel in downtown Wellington (in the evening of Thursday 4 December)

Invited talks

• Johannes Carmesin: A graph minors approach to temporal graphs
• Katie Clinch: TBC
• Jim Geelen: The average sizes of lines and planes in matroids
• Eunjung Kim: Algorithms and MSO logic on graphs with tree-like decomposition
• Karen Meagher: Erdős-Ko-Rado combinatorics
• Kerri Morgan: TBC
• Luke Morgan: Local vs Global in Group-Graph theory
• Rajko Nenadov: Universality for graphs and other discrete structures

Excursion

The conference excursion will run on the afternoon of Wednesday 3 December. Weather permitting, the excursion will involve a ferry trip to Matiu / Somes Island, in the middle of the harbour. The island has been a site of human habitation since well before the colonial era. In the nineteenth centuries, the island was a quarantine site for recent arrivals to New Zealand. It also served as an internment camp for detainees during the world wars. Later, it was used for the quarantine of imported farm animals. Now, the island is a reserve for native birds and reptiles, including kākāriki, a native parakeet (their name lends itself to the Māori word for “green”), and tuatara, a reptile species that resembles lizards.