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 --- NB: fully booked
Week 3, Sept 30: Budapest-Vienna Probability Seminar at TU Wien
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) --- NB: fully booked
Week 7, Oct 26-30:

To register your interest to participate we welcome applications. Please note that Workshop 1 and 2 are now fully booked. There are limited places left for the Introductory School, 14-18 Sep 2026.

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