International Workshop

Sphere packings, coverings, and spherical codes
SPCSC2023

May 28 – 31, 2023,
Sofia, Bulgaria

organized by

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS)

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (FMI-SU)

Speakers

Programme

General Information

Sponsors

Confirmed invited talks

  • Edward Saff
  • Grigory Kabatyansky

  • Masoud Zargar

  • Oleg Pikhurko
  • Peter Grabner
  • Szilard Revesz
  • Yufei Zhao

… to be continued

The workshop will bring together leading experts from the fields of Sphere packings, sphere coverings and spherical codes to present new results and developments, open problems and new directions.

Eight invited lectures will be given in the morning sessions. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to contributed talks.

Organizing Committee

  • Maya Stoyanova (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”), Chair
  • Krassimira Ivanova (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Silvia Boumova (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)
  • Konstantin Delchev (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Anna Branzova (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Programme Committee

  • Peter Boyvalenkov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Chair
  • Ludmil Katzarkov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Geno Nikolov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)

Important dates

  • Contributed talk abstracts deadline – March 15, 2023, March 26, 2023

  • Acceptance/rejection decision – March 31, 2023

  • Registration deadline – April 15, 2023

Programme

May 28

TBA

May 29

TBA

May 30

TBA

May 31

TBA

Venue and General Information

  • The workshop will be held in person in the premises of Grand Hotel Sofia

  • Address: 1, Gurko Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
    Coordinates: 42.6940, 23.3248
    Reception: (+359 2) 811 0811

  • All times are EET (UTC+2) – Sofia local time.

  • Bank account for fees (EUR only):
    Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,
    UNICREDIT Bulbank, BIC: UNCRBGSF
    IBAN: BG 85 UNCR 7630 3400 0012 91

    Please, if you make bank transfer specify that it is for: Conference SPCSC2023.

The Event is Supported by: