ALGOMANET – Algorithms and Mathematics Network

Algomanet is a network based on collaboration among several research groups in the areas of discrete algorithms, discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, which all are based at Central European universities. The network was founded in 2019 and currently includes Charles University in Prague, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Masaryk University in Brno and the University of Warsaw.

The Algomanet network offers lectures on advanced topics primarily to MSc and PhD students affiliated with one of the network universities. The courses are usually organized as one week courses, often in parallel with another course in the same week; it is possible (and common) to attend only one of the two courses offered while the schedule allows attending both courses. The courses are offered as intensive courses with a lecture held on each weekday and a part of each weekday also devoted to solving exercises given during the lectures.

Courses offered in the academic year 2024/25

• June 30 - July 4, 2025, Charles University, Prague
  Jan Volec (Czech Technical University): Flag algebra method
  Xuding Zhu (Zhejiang Normal University): Applications of Combinatorial Nullstellensatz to graph colourings
• Sep 1-5, 2025, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  Miloš Stojaković (University of Novi Sad): Introduction to Positional Games

Courses offered in the academic year 2023/24

• May 20-24, 2024, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
  Pablo Candela (Autonomous University of Madrid): Higher-order Fourier analysis
  Joel Moreira (University of Warwick): Ergodic Ramsey theory
• Sep 9-13, 2024, University of Warsaw
  Jan Dreier (TU Vienna): The combinatorics of monadic stability, monadic dependence, and related notions
  Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw): Parameterized algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems

Courses offered in the academic year 2022/23

• Sep 5-9, 2022, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  Péter Pál Pach (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): The polynomial method
• June 26-30, 2023, Masaryk University, Brno
  Jan Křetínský (TU Munich): Probabilistic verification
  Pascal Schweitzer (TU Darmstadt): Algorithms for permutation groups

Courses offered in the academic year 2021/22

• May 23-27, 2022, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
  Gwenaël Joret (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Product structure of planar graphs
  Piotr Micek (Jagiellonian University): Combinatorics of posets

Courses offered in the academic year 2020/21

• August 23-September 3, 2021, Charles University, Prague
  Pavel Hubáček (Charles University): Foundations of theoretical cryptography (Aug 23-27)
  Michal Koucký (Charles University): Fine-grained complexity (Aug 30-Sep 3)
  These two courses originally planned to be held in May 2020 at Charles University had to be rescheduled to June 2021 and then to August 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Courses offered in the academic year 2019/20

• January 13-January 24, 2020, University of Warsaw
  Mikołaj Bojańczyk (University of Warsaw): Automata, semigroups and logic (Jan 13-17)
  Michał Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw): Combinatorics and algorithms for sparse graphs (Jan 20-24)
• January 27-February 7, 2020, Masaryk University, Brno
  Andrzej Grzesik (JU Kraków): Extremal graph theory
  Petr Hliněný (MU Brno): Topological and geometric graph theory (half course, Feb 3-7)
  Dan Kráľ (MU Brno): Regularity method (half course, Jan 27-31)

Steering committee

• Zdeněk Dvořák (Charles University, Prague)
• Jan Grebík (Masaryk University, Brno)
• Dömötör Pálvölgyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
• Szymon Toruńczyk (University of Warsaw)
• Bartosz Walczak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)