'Bigger than I expected,' says Campos about the event at IMPA.

The 2nd edition of the Brazilian School of Combinatorics (EBC) began this Monday (10) at IMPA. The series of conferences, organized by the institute's researchers Robert Morris and Marcelo Campos, will run until Friday (14). The event aims to present the most recent advances in the area, promote academic exchange and offer an opportunity for students to present their work. With 173 registered and more than 120 present on the first day of lectures, the event is already considered a success. “It’s great to see so many people interested in the area. It’s already much bigger than we expected. We are receiving many participants, international visitors from nine countries with the aim of strengthening the research group here,” highlighted Campos. Read more: IMPA opens vacancy for Project Scientist at the Pi Center 'We managed to do cutting-edge science', says Arthur Bizzi Thyago Souza: an itinerant mathematician at IMPA Organized by IMPA together with IME/USP (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo) and INCTMat (National Institute of Science and Technology of Mathematics), this edition's program includes 11 plenary lectures, two mini-courses and daily poster presentations. Participants will also have the opportunity to initiate new collaborations by solving open problems in small groups. The first lecture of the event , "Lower tails via Gibbs uniqueness on hypertrees," was presented by Matthew Jenssen (King's College London). He presented an example of probability with a large 'lower tail' deviation that arises naturally in combinatorics. The researcher thanked IMPA for the opportunity to be there. "Thank you so much to the organizers for inviting me to be here. It will be a wonderful week, and it's always great to have the opportunity to come to this incredible place." The program also features plenary speakers Corrine Yap (Georgia Tech); Cosmin Pohoata (Emory University); Huy Tuan Pham (IAS); Jinyoung Park (NYU); Letícia Mattos (Universität Heidelberg); Matías Pavez-Signé (Universidad de Chile); Maurício Collares (TU Graz); Nicolas Sanhueza Matamala (Universidad de Concepción); Tibor Szabó (Freie Universität Berlin); and Yuval Wigderson (ETH Zürich). The school brings together undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students from various universities in Brazil and abroad. A group of undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) is attending IMPA for the first time. “It’s my first time. IMPA is really cool, the space is very beautiful. Today’s lecture was very didactic, with some cool ideas. I do research in graphs and I’m working with complexity. Here at the school, I hope to improve my probabilistic method tool. I think the event will be interesting. I have high expectations,” highlighted Philipe Medeiros, an undergraduate student at UFC. Beatriz Viana, an undergraduate student at PUC-SP, is also among the first-timers at IMPA. The student says that coming to the Brazilian School of Combinatorics was a suggestion from researcher Guilherme Oliveira Mota from USP during a workshop on optimization, combinatorics, and algorithms that took place in São Paulo. “The classes are very good. I’m entering the area now and this is an opportunity to learn about different works and studies.” Peruvian Ariana Quispe, a master's student at USP (University of São Paulo), who is participating in an event at IMPA for the second time, says she came motivated to learn about other research. “I was here at the Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium two years ago and now I am at this Combinatorics event, as it is the area I work in. I wanted to come to understand what other areas are working on.” This is the second edition of the Brazilian School of Combinatorics, which runs until Friday (14) at IMPA. The first edition took place in São Sebastião (SP) , in 2023, organized by IMPA and IME-USP and had 87 participants. Read also: 35th Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium: registrations open Visgraf video unites avatars of Aristotle and Steve Jobs