Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) is an international scientific organization. It was formed in 1990 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida; its operation office is housed at Florida Atlantic University.
Aim and membership
The ICA's aim is to increase the visibility and the influence of the combinatorial community. It has over 800 members in over forty countries.[1]
Membership in the ICA is at three levels. Members are those who have not yet completed a Ph.D. Associate Fellows are younger members who have received the Ph.D. or have published extensively; normally an Associate Fellow should hold the rank of Assistant Professor. Fellows are expected to be established scholars and typically have the rank of Associate Professor or higher.
Some members are involved in highly theoretical research; there are members whose primary interest lies in education and instruction; and there are members who are heavily involved in the applications of combinatorics in statistical design, communications theory, cryptography, computer security, and other practical areas.
Publication
The ICA publishes the Bulletin of the ICA (ISSN 1183-1278), a journal that combines publication of survey and research papers with news of members and accounts of future and past conferences. It appears three times a year, in January, May and September and usually consists of 128 pages.[1]
Medals
The ICA awards the Euler Medals annually for distinguished career contributions to combinatorics by a member of the institute who is still active in research. It is named after the 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler.
The ICA awards the Hall Medals, named after Marshall Hall, Jr., to recognize outstanding achievements by members who are not over age 40.
The ICA awards the Kirkman Medals, named after Thomas Kirkman, to recognize outstanding achievements by members who are within four years past their Ph.D.
In 2016, the ICA voted to institute an ICA medal to be known as the Stanton Medal, named after Ralph Stanton, in recognition of substantial and sustained contributions, other than research, to promoting the discipline of combinatorics. The Stanton Medal honours significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring. At most one medal per year is to be awarded, typically to a Fellow of the ICA.
List of Euler Medal winners
| Year | Winners |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Curt Lindner |
| 2012 | Alex Rosa |
| 2011 | Cheryl Praeger |
| 2010 | Bojan Mohar |
| 2009 | -- no medal awarded -- |
| 2008 | Gábor Korchmáros |
| 2007 | Stephen Milne, Heiko Harborth |
| 2006 | Clement W. H. Lam, Nick Wormald |
| 2005 | Ralph Faudree, Aviezri Fraenkel |
| 2004 | Doron Zeilberger, Zhu Lie |
| 2003 | Peter Cameron, Charles Colbourn |
| 2002 | Herbert Wilf |
| 2001 | Spyros Magliveras |
| 2000 | Richard A. Brualdi, Horst Sachs |
| 1999 | D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri |
| 1998 | Peter Ladislaw Hammer, Anthony Hilton |
| 1997 | - no medal awarded - |
| 1996 | J.H. van Lint |
| 1995 | Hanfried Lenz |
| 1994 | Joseph A. Thas |
| 1993 | Claude Berge, Ronald Graham |
List of Hall Medal winners
| Year | Winners |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Michael Giudici |
| 2011 | Olga Polverino |
| 2010 | Catherine Greenhill |
| 2009 | -- no medal awarded -- |
| 2008 | Ian Wanless |
| 2007 | David Pike |
| 2006 | Darryn Bryant, Gennian Ge, Heather Jordon |
| 2005 | Jonathan Jedwab |
| 2004 | Dirk Hachenberger, Masaaki Harada |
| 2003 | Antonio Cossidente |
| 2002 | Saad El-Zanati |
| 2001 | Alfred Menezes, Alexander Pott |
| 2000 | Michael Henning, Klaus Metsch |
| 1999 | Hendrik Van Maldeghem, Rolf Rees |
| 1998 | Marco Buratti, Arrigo Bonisoli |
| 1997 | Reinhard Diestel |
| 1996 | Christos Koukouvinos, Christine O'Keefe, Tim Penttila |
| 1995 | Donald Kreher |
| 1994 | Ortrud Oellermann, Chris Rodger, Doug Stinson |
List of Kirkman Medal winners
| Year | Winners |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Rebecca Stones, Xiande Zhang |
| 2011 | Tao Feng |
| 2010 | Daniel Horsley and Kai-Uwe Schmidt |
| 2009 | -- no medal awarded -- |
| 2008 | Nick Cavenagh, Futaba Okamoto |
| 2007 | Petteri Kaski, Peter Dukes |
| 2006 | John Bamberg, Giuseppe Marino, Koen Thas |
| 2005 | Michael Giudici, Matt Walsh |
| 2004 | Andreas Enge, Jon-Lark Kim |
| 2003 | Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Mateja Sajna, Sanming Zhou |
| 2002 | Ian Wanless |
| 2001 | Matthew Brown, Alan Ling, Ying Miao |
| 2000 | Michael Raines |
| 1999 | Nicholas Hamilton, Qing Xiang |
| 1998 | Peter Adams, Cai Heng Li |
| 1997 | Makoto Matsumoto, Bernhard Schmidt |
| 1996 | Gregory Gutin, Patric R. J. Östergård |
| 1995 | Darryn Bryant |
| 1994 | Robert Craigen, Jonathan Jedwab |