The workshop Symmetry in Graphs, Maps and Polytopes, SIGMAP'10, will be held in Oaxaca,
Mexico, from June 20th to June 25th, 2010.
Oaxaca is a beautiful colonial city in the Mexican interior in close proximity of many interesting archaeological sites. It is famous for its colorful markets and interesting
cuisine (boasting the best mezcal, Chocolate Street and the delicious chapulines). There is an international airport in Oaxaca. Alternatively, you could fly to Mexico City and
take a six hours bus ride to Oaxaca. (See http://www.matem.unam.mx/sigmap10/How_to_get.html for information on how to get to Oaxaca).
In 1998 the first SIGMAC workshop was organized by Steve Wilson in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Since then, the workshops have been organized every four years, with workshops in 2002
and 2006 held in Aveiro, Portugal, organized by Antonio Breda d'Azevedo.
SIGMAP workshops are now part of the cycle of meetings that combinatorial geometers have
every year, with 4 years periods, in New Zealand (in the years congruent to 0 mod 4),
Slovakia (1 mod 4) and Slovenia (3 mod 4).
This workshop, the fourth in its series, will convene researchers interested in
geometric, topological and combinatorial objects having largeĀ symmetry (automorphism)
groups.
The program will consist of 50-minute talks by invited speakers, and 20 minute
contributed talks, a problem session, an outing, a banquet and wealth of time for
conversation. The contributions are to be related to one of the following topics:
- Group actions on graphs
- Regular maps and hypermaps
- Highly symmetric polytopes
- Symmetric higher-dimensional complexes
- Automorphism groups of Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves
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