<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">28th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please join us for FPSAC 2016, in Vancouver July 4 - 8, 2016.</div><div class="">The program, extended abstracts and schedule are now available. </div><div class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2016/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2016/</a><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">Of interest as well are the two satellite meetings</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Sage Days June 29- July 1 <a href="https://wiki.sagemath.org/days78" class="">https://wiki.sagemath.org/days78</a></div><div class="">2. Journées Combinatoires Franco-Vancouvéroises July 11- 12 <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/math/research_groups/applied_combinatorics/JCFV.html" class="">https://www.sfu.ca/math/research_groups/applied_combinatorics/JCFV.html</a><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Please forward this email to anyone who might be interested; </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">contact </span><a href="mailto:fpsac2016@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">fpsac2016@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size: 13px;" class=""> to be added to or removed from the mailing list.</span></div><div class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Regards,</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Marni Mishna (Simon Fraser University) </span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Organizing committee chair</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">=====================</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">FPSAC'16</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">=====================</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">28th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">=====================</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Monday July 4 - Friday July 8 2016</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Simon Fraser University, Downtown Campus</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Vancouver BC Canada</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">=====================</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2016/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2016/</a><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">=====================</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Topics: All aspects of combinatorics and their relations with other parts of mathematics, physics, computer science, and biology.</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Conference program: Invited lectures, contributed presentations, poster sessions. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">There will be no parallel sessions. </span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Official languages: English and French.</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Invited speakers:</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Jason Bell (University of Waterloo)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Ben Brubaker (University of Minnesota)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Guillaume Chapuy (CNRS/ Université Paris-Diderot)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Jennifer Morse (Drexel University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Masato Okado (Osaka City University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Margaret Readdy (University of Kentucky)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Jozsef Solymosi (University of British Columbia)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)</span><br class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Best student paper award: In an ongoing FPSAC tradition, an award will be made for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. Students submitting extended abstracts are invited to indicate their eligibility for this award.</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Further information: All important information concerning FPSAC'16 can be found on the conference web page. More details will be given in future announcements. Please direct further questions to </span><a href="mailto:fpsac2016@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">fpsac2016@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">.</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Program Committee:</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Sylvie Corteel (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot 7 ) (Co-chair)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Andrew Rechnitzer (University of British Colombia) (Co-chair)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Anne Schilling (University of California, Davis) (Co-chair)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Christine Bessenrodt (Hannover)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Yvan le Borgne (CNRS / Université de Bordeaux)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (CNRS / Université de Bordeaux)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Soojin Cho (Ajou University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Eric Fusy (CNRS/ École polytechique)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Ira Gessel (Brandeis University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Manuel Kauers (RISC)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Svante Linusson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Peter McNamara (Bucknell University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Gregg Musiker (University of Minnesota)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Philippe Nadeau (CNRS / Université Lyon 1)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Daniel Panario (Carleton University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Greta Panova (University of Pennsylvania)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Thomas Prellberg (Queen Mary, University of London)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Dan Romik (University of California, Davis)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Mercedes Rosas (Universidad de Sevilla)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Mark Shimozono (Virginia Tech )</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Bridget Tenner (DePaul University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Nicolas Thiery (Université Paris Sud)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Ole Warnaar (University of Queensland)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Organizing Committee:</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Marni Mishna (Simon Fraser University) (Chair)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Cedric Chauve (Simon Fraser University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Julien Courtiel (Simon Fraser University)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Sergi Elizalde (Dartmouth College)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Stephen Melczer (University of Waterloo / École normale supérieure de Lyon)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Vincent Pilaud (CNRS/ École Polytechique)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Andrew Rechnitzer (University of British Columbia)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Lily Yen (Simon Fraser University / Capilano University)</span></div></body></html>