[DMANET] Complexity as a Kaleidoscope 2026, workshop in Lisbon

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the *Complexity as a Kaleidoscope 2026* workshop, to be held in *Lisbon, Portugal*, from *July 30 to August 1, 2026*. Here is a link to the webpage: Complexity as a Kaleidoscope 2026 <https://complexitykaleidoscope.wordpress.com/> The workshop is co-located with the Computational Complexity Conference (CCC) <https://computationalcomplexity.org/>, which takes place immediately following the workshop (August 3–6). There is only room for about 60 participants, so please register ASAP (registration link in webpage)! A "Bourbaki-Style" WorkshopFor this workshop, we are trying something a little different, inspired by the Bourbaki seminars. Normally speakers talk about their own work, and related work. Instead, we are aiming for something more in the spirit of the Bourbaki seminar: instead of speakers talking about their own work, they will be paying homage to other people’s work. As co-organizers of the workshop, we share a (somewhat speculative) intuition that this will lead to wonderful talks and promote a happy, friendly atmosphere. Having chosen a paper or collection of works among their favorites, the purpose of the talk would be for the speaker to share why they like it, to give the audience some flavor of what it’s like to think about the topic (which should definitely include going over some of the proofs), and also perhaps to say something about the work’s history, context, etc. Confirmed Speakers We are excited to host the following amazing speakers: - Dmytro Gavinsky <https://users.math.cas.cz/~gavinsky/> - Anup Rao <https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~anuprao/> - Rahul Santhanam <https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/rahul.santhanam/> - Mary Wootters <https://sites.google.com/site/marywootters> - Amir Yehudayoff <https://amiryehudayoff.github.io/home/> Travel Support A limited travel fund is available to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs. Also, lunch will be provided. We hope to see you in Lisbon! Bruno Loff, Suhail Sherif, Navid Talebanfard ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************