AofA | News and Announcements

2024-05-03 • Author: Bruno Salvy • Tags: bylaws

Proposed amendment to the AofA bylaws

During the discussion on the bylaws in Taiwan last year, it was mentioned that the format of the workshop editions should be more open than it is currently. As a consequence, the Steering Committee is proposing the following amendment to the bylaws for discussion at the next business meeting in Bath.

2023-09-05 • Author: Benjamin Hackl • Tags: awards

ESA Test-of-Time Award 2022 awarded to Marianne Durand and Philippe Flajolet

The article LogLog Counting of Large Cardinalities by Marianne Durand and Philippe Flajolet wins a Test-of-Time Award from the European Symposium on Algorithms.

2023-06-30 • Author: Bruno Salvy • Tags: bylaws

AofA Bylaws adopted

After a discussion that led to several improvements, an updated version of the Bylaws was adopted at the business meeting of AofA’2023.

2023-06-29 • Author: Svante Janson • Tags: prizeflajolet lecture

Michael Drmota Selected as the Sixth Flajolet Lecturer

The sixth Flajolet Lecture will be presented by Michael Drmota, Professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at Vienna University of Technology, at the 2024 AofA Conference in Bath, UK.

2023-06-28 • Author: Clemens Heuberger • Tags: bylaws

AofA Code of Conduct

The open exchange of ideas is central to the AofA community. This requires an environment that embraces diversity and provides a safe, welcoming environment for all.

2023-06-15 • Author: Benjamin Hackl • Tags: meta

AofA Website Relaunch

As you might have noticed, the website of our community has been fully redesigned to feature both a more modern and mobile-friendly interface, as well as a completely new “backend” (using Jekyll to generate static pages automatically from a version-controlled source repository).

2023-05-12 • Author: Bruno Salvy • Tags: callprize

2024 Flajolet Lecture Prize: Call for Nominations

The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize for outstanding contributions to analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms is awarded every two years by the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA) community that owes its existence to Philippe Flajolet.

2020-12-22 • Author: Mark Daniel Ward • Tags: book

New Book "An Invitation to Analytic Combinatorics: From One to Several Variables" by Steve Melczer

Steve Melczer has published a new text An Invitation to Analytic Combinatorics: From One to Several Variables. He characterizes the book as an “introduction to Pemantle and Wilson’s book on multivariate analytic combinatorics, aimed at a similar audience to Flajolet and Sedgewick and with more of a focus on explicit computation and worked examples”.

2018-11-15 • Author: Mark Daniel Ward • Tags: prize

2019 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition Goes to Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick

The Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition has been awarded to Philippe Flajolet (posthumously) and to Bob Sedgewick for their book Analytic Combinatorics.