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Summer is typically a period where many conferences take place keeping academics busy. From organising events to giving talks to conferences, members of the Centre were active during the 2025 summer, presenting their research and networking with the UK and the international community.

Natasha Blitvic was an invited plenary speaker at the 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference that took place at Reykjavik, the picturesque capital of Iceland in June. Additionally Natasha was also a plenary speaker at the International Conference on Permutation Patterns 2025, St Andrews, Scotland, in July.

Primoz Skraba and Omer Bobrowski coorganised the Erlangen AI Hub Conference 2025, which took place here at the School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL. The event was under the auspices of the UKRI AI Hub "Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence: An Erlangen Programme for AI " of which Primoz and Omer are principal investigators.

Omer was additionally an invited speaker at a series of conferences: Dynamics, Topology and Computations in Będlewo, Poland, in June, The Geometric Realization of AATRN (Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network), in Chicago, USA, in August, and Workshop on Random Simplicial Complexes and Hypergraphs, Nottingham-Trent University, in September. He also gave a mini-course titled "Random topology – theory and applications" at the workshop Topological data analysis in stochastic geometry and image processing, Aarhus, Denmark, in August.

Sasha Gnedin was an invited speaker in two conferences at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada in May: Fields-CFI Conference on Optimal Stopping and Its Applications in Finance and Insurance, and International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2025). He also gave a talk at the 22nd International Conference on Random Structures & Algorithms, in Vienna, in August.

Kostas Papafitsoros was coorganiser of the 10th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM 2025), which took place in Dartington Hall, Devon, in May. Kostas also participated at the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, ENUMATH 2025, where he coorganised a session on "Learning PDE-based Models from Data" and also giving a talk there.

Alex Shestopaloff was coorganiser of The Conference on Networks and Graphs which took place at Belgrade, Serbia, in August.

Our recent graduate Adam Onus, who will soon be leaving QMUL for a postfoc at Oxford, gave a talk at the 11th Conference in the Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation & Science, Montana, USA, in July and presented a poster at the joint British Mathematical Colloquium and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Exeter, in June, which won the PhD Student Poster Prize!

Finally, Eftychia Solea and Adam Onus were coorganisers of the PiFORUM25 conference which took place at QMUL in September. This is an annual conference run by the Piscopia Initiative, which is aimed at encouraging women and gender minorities to pursue PhD's and/or careers in mathematics.