The seventh workshop
Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces
Podbanské, Slovakia
30 July – 4 August, 2017

GEMS 2017

is the workshop organised by

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Banská Bystrica

Comenius University, Bratislava

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava

and

Slovak Mathematical Society

The workshop is the seventh in the series of Slovak GEMS workshops. The previous workshops were held in 1994 (Donovaly), 1997 (Banská Bystrica), 2001 (Bratislava), 2005 (Stará Lesná), 2009 (Tále), and 2013 (Smolenice). For more than twenty years, map-theoretic community has been meeting every year. Timings and places have been stabilised, with a period of 4 years, on New Zealand (in the years congruent to 0 mod 4), Slovakia (1 mod 4), some other places (2 mod 4), and Slovenia (3 mod 4).

The workshop should bring together people interested in various aspects of graphs embedded on surfaces. The programme will consist of lectures by invited speakers and short talks by participants. Contributed talks should be related to one or more of the following topics:

  • Embeddings of graphs on surfaces
  • Symmetrical embeddings, regular maps
  • Group actions on graphs
  • Representativity and graph minors
  • Convex polytopes and polytopal graphs
  • Dessins d’enfants
  • Enumeration of maps

Invited speakers

  • Marston Conder, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Robert Jajcay, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Klavdija Kutnar, University Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
  • Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.
  • Pablo Spiga, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Venue

The workshop will be held from 30 July to 4 August 2017 in the Grand Hotel Permon, Podbanské, in High Tatras. Details about the travelling to Podbanské are provided here.

Organisers

  • Roman Nedela, Mathematical Institue of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Banská Bystrica
    Roman Nedela, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
  • Martin Škoviera, Comenius University, Bratislava
  • Jozef Širáň, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava

The deadline for submitting the final registration data and the abstracts submission is 21 Jun 2017. If you have any questions, please contact us via the conference e-mail.