15th Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization

September 21–25, 2026

Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica (France)

About

The yearly Cargese workshop aims to bring together researchers in combinatorial optimization around a chosen topic of current interest. It is intended to be a forum for the exchange of recent developments and powerful tools, with an emphasis on theory. Other goals include the promotion of interactions between participants and discussions of open problems.

Mathematicians are known to be the only ones that can lay down in a sofa, close their eyes and pretend to work.
We propose to swap the sofa for a hammock... Do you want to join?

Sea at Cargese

Topic

This edition's workshop will focus on "Matroid Theory", covering aspects such as structure, algorithms, and applications within combinatorial optimization.

Distinguished speakers

Organization

The workshop will be hosted by L'Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse (IESC). This year's organizers are:

The organizers receive advise from the steering commitee, consisting of Fritz Eisenbrand, Michel Goemans, Monique Laurent, R. Ravi, and Jens Vygen.

Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse

Schedule

There will be morning and afternoon sessions. Morning sessions will be dedicated to longer survey-type talks or open problems. The afternoon sessions will be dedicated to discussions, shorter talks on related topics, and open problem sessions.

In their spare time, we encourage researchers to enjoy the beautiful landscape and opportunities of the island, besides solving a few open problems.

Chairs with view on sea at Cargese

Previous editions

A list of all previous editions can be found here.