The Center for Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame will host a two-week thematic program "Algebraic combinatorics and applications" from June 29 to July 10, 2026. The first week will consist of two learning workshops held in parallel, one for undergraduate students and another for graduate students and postdocs. The second week will be an international research conference.

Undergraduate mini-course lecturers:

- Grant Barkley (University of Michigan): Bruhat orders and applications

- Amanda Burcroff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Cluster algebras

- Colleen Robichaux (University of California, Los Angeles): Schubert calculus

Graduate/postdoc mini-course lecturers:

- Thomas Lam (University of Michigan): Positive geometries

- Pavlo Pylyavskyy (University of Minnesota): T-systems and integrability

- Jessica Striker (North Dakota State University): Webs and alternating sign matrices