About Us
African Enumerative Combinatorics Community (AECC) is a collaborative initiative to bring together mathematicians, both students and researchers, across Africa with a shared interest in counting problems, generating functions, and discrete structures.
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Upcoming Seminars
Seminars take place on the last Thursday of the month, at 14:00 East Africa Time.
- 30 July 2026: On a variant of k-plane trees – Fidel Ochieng, Moi university, Kenya.
- 27 August 2026: TBC – Ilse Fischer, University of Vienna, Austria.
- 24 September 2026: TBC – Albert Nyariaro Oloo, Moi University, Kenya.
- 29 October 2026: TBC – Clement Requile, UPC- BarcelonaTech, Spain.
Previous Seminars
- 3 July 2025: Enumeration of Weakly Increasing 2-Noncrossing Trees – Yvonne Kariuki, Kibabii University, Kenya. YouTube.
- 31 July 2025: Run-Sorted Permutations Avoiding Certain Patterns: The Case of Length 4 and Permutation Statistical Consequences – Olivia Nabawanda, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. YouTube
- 28 August 2025: Families of Type B Set Partitions Counted by the Dowling Numbers – Fufa Beyene, Kotebe University of Education, Ethiopia. YouTube
- 25 September 2025: Graphs of Reduced Words and Some Connections – Praise Adeyemo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. YouTube
- 30 October 2025: The Asymptotic Analysis of Norms in Integer Partitions – Dennis Kinoti Gikunda, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. YouTube
- 27 November 2025: Conjugation of Coloured Compositions – Augustine Munagi, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. YouTube
- 29 January 2026: The water capacity of Dyck paths – Arnold Knopfmacher, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. YouTube
- 26 February 2026: Generalized plane trees – Isaac Owino Okoth, Maseno University, Kenya. YouTube
- 26 March 2026: A probabilistic framework for the study of parameters of random trees – Dimbinaina Ralaivaosaona, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.YouTube
- 30 April 2026: Monomial identities in the Weyl algebra – Stephan Wagner, Graz University of Technology, Austria. YouTube
- 28 May 2026: Pattern avoidance in alternating sign rectangles – Hans Hoengesberg, University of Vienna, Austria. YouTube
- 25 June 2026: Weight distribution bounds to relate minimum distance, list decoding, and symmetric channel performance – Jan Hazla, Research Chair, AIMS Rwanda, Kigali.YouTube
Upcoming Events
CIMPA Research School
Applications are now open for the CIMPA Research School on Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics (Makerere University, Uganda, 19–30 July 2027). The school is intended for graduate students and early-career researchers interested in modern developments in algebraic and enumerative combinatorics. Participants will benefit from lecture courses delivered by internationally recognized experts, exercise sessions, and opportunities for scientific collaboration and networking.
✅ Meals and accommodation will be provided for all accepted participants.
✅ A limited number of travel grants will be available for participants from developing countries, subject to available funding.
📅 Application deadline: 19 March 2027.
Apllication links: Official CIMPA Website
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Inaugural Pan-African AECC Research Workshop on Enumerative Combinatorics
The Inaugural Pan-African AECC Research Workshop on Enumerative Combinatorics will be held from 2nd to 6th August, 2027 at Makerere University, Uganda.
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Collaborative Events
We plan to host online problem-solving sessions and collaborative events; more details to follow.
Resources
Here are some useful links for people interested in Enumerative Combinatorics.
Related organisations and conferences:
- African Women in Mathematics Asssociation (AWMA)
- African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
- International Mathematical Union (IMU)
- International Conferences on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC)
- International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications - Virtual
- International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA)
- Women in Sage Tunisia
Related resources:
- The AofA Conference series has a good list of resources here
- Notes on Counting: An Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics (Peter J. Cameron)
- Combinatorics Lecture Notes and Exercises (courtesy of Stephan Wagner)
- Enumerative Combinatorics Volume 1 (Richard P. Stanley).
- Enumerative Combinatorics Volume 2 (Richard P. Stanley)
- Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics (Miklos Bona)
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Contact
Email: african.enum.comb@gmail.com