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Duluth, MN — The University of Minnesota Duluth Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin are planning the 25th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA) to be held for the first time in United States. IWOCA will be held from October 15-17 in the Inn on Lake Superior in Duluth.

There will be four plenary invited lectures by speakers from Norway, Catalonia (Spain), India, and China. In addition, there will be 30 contributed talks and a poster session. Sylwia Cichacz-Przenioslo, UMD visiting assistant professor will present a contributed talk, titled "Gamma-magic rectangle set and group distance magic labeling." UMD graduate students, Inne Singgih and Danielle Stewart, will also present posters at the event. The conference will include more than 50 participants from 25 countries (U.S., Canada, South Korea, Scotland, Japan, Lebanon, France, Denmark, Italy, India, Australia, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Indonesia, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Norway, China, and Catalonia (Spain).

In this conference, IWOCA will provide discussion and analysis of problems with new results. Through sessions such as this one, they seek to maintain the highest standards of academic research. Since 1989, IWOCA has hosted a yearly forum for researchers in designing algorithms field to advance creativeness of intersection between mathematics and computer science. This is the first time this conference is being held in U.S.