About

The 43rd Kolloquium über Kombinatorik (KolKom) will be held on

November 13–14, 2026 at IMOS (TU Berlin)

hosted by the Zuse Institute Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin. Plenary lectures will be given by Maria Axenovich, Matthew Kwan, Monique Laurent, and Mohit Singh, with contributed talks across two days. Submissions, in the form of short extended abstracts, will open shortly and are welcome from all areas of combinatorics and discrete mathematics, including extremal and probabilistic methods, structural graph theory, algebraic combinatorics, and combinatorial optimization.

Important Dates

Submissions

  1. Open by Mon, June 15
  2. Close Wed, September 30
  3. Notifications by Fri, October 9

Registration

  1. Open by Wed, July 15
  2. Close Fri, October 16

Conference

  1. KolKom 2026 November 13–14

Plenary Speakers

Preliminary Schedule

Friday, November 13
08:30 Reception
09:00 Welcome
09:15 Matthew Kwan
10:15 Coffee
10:45 Contributed talks
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Monique Laurent
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Contributed talks
Saturday, November 14
09:00 Mohit Singh
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Contributed talks
12:15 Maria Aksenovich
13:15 Lunch & Farewell
Friday, November 13
08:30
Reception
09:00
Welcome
09:15
Matthew Kwan
10:15
Coffee
10:45
Contributed talks
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Monique Laurent
15:00
Coffee
15:30
Contributed talks
Saturday, November 14
09:00
Mohit Singh
10:00
Coffee
10:30
Contributed talks
12:15
Maria Aksenovich
13:15
Lunch & Farewell

Organization

Organized by Christoph Spiegel (Zuse Institute Berlin). For inquiries, please contact spiegel@zib.de.

Local Information

Details on travel and accommodation will be posted here.