Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures

This thematic program will bring together experts for the study of discrete planar structures. Such structures play a prominent role in separate recent developments in combinatorics and probability (especially statistical mechanics) and within this program experts from both communities share their perspectives and aim to initiate new approaches to some of the most important problems at the intersection of these areas.

The program will last 7 weeks and feature an Introductory School and two one-week topical workshops, as well as several weeks with a light program to enable collaborations, reading groups and discussions among the participants.

Schedule:

Week 1, Sep 14-18: Introductory School
Week 2, Sep 21-25: Workshop 1: Statistical Mechanics: planar & beyond (co-organised by Nathanael Berestycki, Marcin Lis and Fabio Toninelli
Week 3, Sept 28-Oct 3: 
Week 4: Oct 9-10: Symposium Discrete Mathematics (Day I at ESI, Day II at SkyLounge, OMP1)
Week 5, Oct 12-16:
Week 6, Oct 19-23: Workshop 2: Combinatorics & Asymptotics of discrete planar structures (co-organised by Michael Drmota, Ilse Fischer, Benedikt Stufler)
Week 7, Oct 26-30:

To register your interest to participate we welcome applications.

Partial support is acknowledged from the SFB F 1002  "Discrete random structures: enumeration and scaling limits" by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Sept. 14, 2026
DAY I: Introductory School
Sept. 15, 2026
DAY II: Introductory School
Sept. 16, 2026
DAY III: Introductory School
Sept. 17, 2026
DAY IV: Introductory School
Sept. 18, 2026
DAY V: Introductory School
Sept. 21, 2026
DAY I: Workshop I
Sept. 22, 2026
DAY II: Workshop I
Sept. 23, 2026
DAY III: Workshop I
Sept. 24, 2026
DAY IV: Workshop I
Sept. 25, 2026
DAY V: Workshop I
Oct. 9, 2026
DAY I: Symposium Discrete Mathematics
Oct. 19, 2026
DAY I: Workshop II
Oct. 20, 2026
DAY II: Workshop II
Oct. 21, 2026
DAY III: Workshop III
Oct. 22, 2026
DAY IV: Workshop II
Oct. 23, 2026
DAY V: Workshop II
This event has no subevents associated to it.

Organizers

Name Affiliation
Nathanael Berestycki University of Vienna
Michael Drmota Vienna University of Technology
Ilse Fischer University of Vienna
Mihyun Kang Technical University of Graz
Astrid Kollros University of Vienna
Christian Krattenthaler University of Vienna
Marcin Lis Vienna University of Technology
Benedikt Stufler Vienna University of Technology
Fabio Toninelli Vienna University of Technology

Attendees

Name Affiliation
Marie Albenque CNRS Paris
Arvind Ayyer Indian Institute of Science
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou Université de Bordeaux
Timothy Budd Radboud University
Dmitry Chelkak University of Michigan
Mihai Ciucu Indiana University
Filippo Colomo Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Nicolas Curien University Paris Saclay
Beatrice de Tiliere Université Paris-Dauphine
Eric Fusy Université Gustave Eiffel
Alexander Glazman Universität Innsbruck
Vadim Gorin University of California, Berkeley
Tyler Helmuth Durham University
Daoji Huang University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jesper Jacobsen École Normale Supérieure
Richard Kenyon Yale University
Matjaz Konvalinka University of Ljubljana
Michael Krivelevich Tel Aviv University
Jean-François Le Gall University Paris Saclay
Sigurður Örn Stefánsson University of Iceland
Konstantinos Panagiotou LMU München
Romain Panis Université Lyon 1
Greta Panova University of Southern California
Leonid Petrov University of Virginia
Sanjay Ramassamy IPhT Saclay
Marianna Russkikh University of Notre Dame du Lac
Jessica Striker North Dakota State University
Xin Sun Peking University
Benjamin Young University Of Oregon
Zijie Zhuang University of Pennsylvania
At a glance
Type:
Thematic Programme
When:
Sept. 14, 2026 — Oct. 30, 2026
Where:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Organizer(s):
Nathanael Berestycki (U of Vienna)
Michael Drmota (TU Wien)
Ilse Fischer (U of Vienna)
Mihyun Kang (TU Graz)
Astrid Kollros (U of Vienna)
Christian Krattenthaler (U of Vienna)
Marcin Lis (TU Wien)
Benedikt Stufler (TU Wien)
Fabio Toninelli (TU Wien)