22–24 June 2026
University College London
Hybrid Conference
A conference in (belated) celebration of Alan Sokal's 70th birthday.
Registration is free but compulsory.
If you would like to participate but your name is not listed below, please register using this link before 18 June 2026.
This meeting will be followed by a one-day meeting
celebrating Alan's contributions to the philosophy of science.
This conference brings together researchers working at the interface of combinatorics, analysis, and statistical physics. The meeting celebrates Alan Sokal's broad mathematical and scientific contributions.
Organisers:
Rod Halburd (University College London) – r.halburd@ucl.ac.uk
Bishal Deb (Tsinghua University) – bishal@gonitsora.com
The schedule is available here.
| Name | Affiliation | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Abdelmalek Abdesselam | University of Virginia, USA | Virtual |
| Cyril Banderier | Université Paris-Nord, France | Virtual |
| Gaurav Bhatnagar | Ashoka University, India | In person |
| Veronica Bitonti | University of Oxford, UK | In Person |
| Natasha Blitvic | Queen Mary University of London, UK | In Person? |
| Mireille Bosquet-Melou | Université Bordeaux, France | Virtual |
| Petter Brändén | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | Virtual |
| Francesco Brenti | Universitá di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy | Virtual |
| Jean Bricmont | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium | Virtual |
| Peter Cameron | University of St Andrews, UK | Virtual |
| Sergio Caracciolo | Università di Milano, Italy | In Person |
| Xi Chen | Dalian University of Technology | In Person? |
| Sylvie Corteel | University of California, Berkeley, USA | Virtual |
| Bishal Deb | Tsinghua University, China | In Person |
| Youjin Deng | University of Science and Technology of China | Virtual |
| Fengming Dong | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Virtual |
| Alex Dyachenko | Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia | Virtual |
| Robert G. Edwards | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA | Virtual |
| Jo Ellis-Monaghan | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | Virtual |
| Aernout van Enter | Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, Netherlands | In Person |
| Alex Eremenko | Purdue University, USA | Virtual |
| Shaun Fallat | University of Regina, Canada | Virtual |
| Roberto Fernandez | New York University, Shanghai, China | Virtual |
| Tim Garoni | Monash University, Australia | Virtual |
| Tony Guttmann | University of Melbourne, Australia | In person |
| Rod Halburd | University College London, UK | In Person |
| Olga Holtz | University of California, Berkeley, USA | In person |
| Bill Jackson | Queen Mary University of London, UK | In Person |
| Jesper Jacobsen | École Normale Supérieure, France | ? |
| Apoorva Khare | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Virtual |
| Antti-Jukka Kupiainen | University of Helsinki, Finland | Virtual |
| Hélder Lima | University of Aveiro, Portugal | Virtual |
| Neal Madras | York University, Canada | Virtual |
| Tereza Mendes | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | Virtual |
| Iain Moffatt | Royal Holloway, University of London, UK | In Person |
| Andrea Pelissetto | Università di Roma Sapienza, Italy | Virtual |
| Thomas Prellberg | Queen Mary University of London, UK | In Person |
| Guus Regts | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | In Person |
| Vincent Rivasseau | Université Paris-Saclay, France | In Person |
| Gordon Royle | University of Western Australia | Virtual |
| Bruce Sagan | Michigan State University, USA | Virtual |
| Manjil Saikia | Ahmedabad University, India | Virtual |
| Jesus Salas | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain | In Person |
| Alex Scott | University of Oxford, UK | In Person |
| Alan Sokal | University College London, UK | In Person |
| Andrea Sportiello | Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France | In Person |
| Richard Stanley | MIT, USA | Virtual |
| Einar Steingrímsson | University of Strathclyde, UK | Virtual |
| Adrian Tanasa | Université Bordeaux, France | Virtual |
| Anna Vishnyakova | Holon Institute of Technology, Israel | Virtual |
| James Walrad | University College London, UK | In Person |
| Stephen Warren | Imperial College London, UK | In Person |
| Lauren Williams | Harvard University, USA | Virtual |
| Jiang Zeng | University of Lyon, France | Virtual |
| Bao-Xuan Zhu | Jiangsu Normal University, China | Virtual |
The meeting will take place at the main campus of University College London in Bloomsbury. The closest underground station is Euston Square but there are several other stations within easy walking distance.
Travelling to UCL by public transport
All talks will be in room maths 500 in UCL's Department of Mathematics, which is above the Students' Union at 25 Gordon Street (not to be confused with the nearby Gordon Square). If you enter the building from Gordon Street, take the corridor in front of you and slightly to your right. Either take the first set of stairs (i.e., not the ones enclosed in glass, they are for emergencies only) or the second set of lifts (with the label above the door for the Department of Mathematics).