The program committee has selected the submissions that will be presented as talks and posters at FPSAC taking place at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in July, 2025. Accepted submissions will be published in a special volume of the “Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire.” The proceedings editors are
Full versions of submitted extended abstracts may also be submitted to journals.
Your new submission should be a compressed folder (e.g., a zip or tar file) consisting of the following:
It would be useful if there are no subfolders and that you verify your submission compiles in that single folder.
Note that your final submission should incorporate the comments from your reports and adhere to all of the requirements of the initial submissions; in particular, within the 6-12 page limit. Failure to follow these requirements may result in your submission (and presentation) being rejected.
You need to submit the revised version via the SoftConf website by April 1, 2025.
Algebraic combinatorics has a long tradition of using software to support research; in particular, many of the published results and conjectures have been originally discovered through computer exploration or are backed up by calculations. This growing need is supported by regular software development efforts from the researchers.
The purpose of FPSAC’s software demonstrations is to encourage code sharing and reuse by providing a venue for:
We invite presentations of any piece of software that specifically supports research and teaching in algebraic combinatorics: computational libraries, online databases, certified proofs, training portals, etc. The presenter should be or have been actively involved in the development.
Presenters will be given 10 minutes to demonstrate their software to participants. The focus should be on explaining what the piece of software is about and prompting potential users to want to learn more.
Software presentation submissions are done by an extended abstract (12 pages maximum, but we recommend no more than 6 pages) in the same formatting as the usual FPSAC extended abstracts (see below for those guidelines). Abstracts will be evaluated based on content, novelty, originality, importance and the potential value of the software to the community.
Extended abstracts of accepted software presentations will be published in the conference proceedings.
A software extended abstract typically includes:
The software itself shall be made publicly available for scrutinizing by the reviewers. If a specific platform is required, reviewers will make some efforts to get access to that platform and try the software.
For each submission, you must indicate which author will present the work in person at the conference. A change of presenter will only be possible after advance consultation with the program committee. A change of presentation modus may only be accommodated for reasons out of the presenter’s control (such as visa problems, medical issues etc.) and need to be discussed with the program committee and organizing committee. Each person may be the presenter for at most one submission.
In order to avoid any conflict of interest, although program committee members can be coauthors on submissions, they cannot be presenters. Software presentations are reviewed by the Program Committee chairs only; hence Program Committee members may serve as (co)authors on software presentations. Members of other FPSAC committees who are not on the PC may serve as (co)authors on submissions, as they take no part in reviewing or selecting submissions.
In their submission form, the authors should indicate any potential conflict of interest that may exist with program committee members (including co-chairs).
You have a conflict of interest if a program committee member…
As is tradition, there will be a prize for the best student paper. In order to qualify for this prize, all authors on the qualifying submission must be students at the time of submission. You will be asked on the submissions website if your submission qualifies, so please remember to indicate this if it does.
The extended abstract should have an abstract in English. We encourage the authors to include an abstract in another language, for example their native language (if different from English).
The originality of the results and the clarity of exposition will be the primary criteria used to determine which submissions will be accepted.
In order to prepare your submission, please take the following steps to format your document according to these specifications. Please prepare your document using standard LaTeX. If you have any user macros, you must include them in your submission.
Please download and the following files and place them all in one folder:
FPSAC2025.cls;sample.tex;plot.pdf;sample.bib;intended_output_of_sample.pdf.All these files can be found in one zip file.
Compile sample.tex using your favourite editor (if compiling from the command line you may need pdflatex) and make sure the output matches intended output file. Note that you must generate a PDF file - dvi or ps files will not be accepted.
sample.tex. In particular:
\documentclass[submission]{FPSAC2025} for your initial submission;\title[optional short title]{long title};\author[optional shorter names]{longer names};\thanks{...} to include the contact details of author(s), and \addressmark{1}, \addressmark{2} etc. to include the institution(s) of the author(s), and then use \address{\addressmark{1}…} to match author(s) to institution(s);\received{date} to include your date of submission (don’t cheat!);\abstract{...} to include your English language abstract. Please do not include any citations in your abstract with \cite{...}. If you need to cite something in your abstract then write it out, as (author year). Also, do not include any custom commands in your abstract;\resume{...} command. If you do not wish to include a second-language abstract then you can just comment this command out;\resumetitle{...} command. Otherwise just comment this command out;\keywords{...} command;\maketitle command after \begin{document} will generate your title, abstract and keywords automatically.FPSAC2025.cls file loads the graphicx package, and so you should be able to include figures with the usual
%figure code
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{plot}
\caption{A plot of a function.}
\label{fig:plot}
\end{figure}
commands. Wherever possible, please use .pdf versions of your figures.
The FPSAC2025.cls file loads the AMS packages amsmath, amsthm and amssymb. If you wish to load other packages then you must use the usual \includepackage{...} command in the preamble.
.bib file rather than using \bibitem{...} commands at the end of the document. This will make life much easier for the editor, as it simplifies the process of making bibliographies consistent. The sample.tex file uses the biblatex package, where the commands
\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{sample.bib}
are included in the preamble, and then \printbibliography is used at the end of the document.
(This may require installation of the biber package or the texlive-bibtex-extra package (e.g., Ubuntu) if you don’t already have it. See below if you are having compile problems.)
Alternatively, if you wish you can remove these commands and use something like
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{sample}
at the end of the document. Please use numerical citations in the text; i.e., [xx, yy].
tlmgr update --all in the Terminal, or use the TeX Live Utility app in /Applications/TeX.tlmgr update --all command. To use biblatex you may need to install the separate texlive-bibtex-extra package.In your initial submission, you must include either a single PDF file of your manuscript, compiled with FPSAC2025.cls, or a zipped (.zip file) containing all necessary files needed to compile your manuscript (including the FPSAC2025.cls file, all figures, the source .tex file and .bib files etc.). Do not alter the font size, font, or the margin sizes in the FPSAC2025.cls file. If your submission is accepted, all source files will be requested.
Harish-Chandra--Itzykson--Zuber integral.\theoremstyle, and share the same counter as definitions, theorems, lemmas, etc. They should not be unnumbered/isolated headings.\begin{theorem}\label{Tsample}, then please use \begin{proof} if the proof is located very closely after the statement of the result; or else \begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{Tsample}] if it is more than a few lines away, and definitely if another result is stated between Theorem \ref{Tsample} and its proof. In particular, please do not use {\em Proof.} or something similar.
Do not use of abbreviations like “wrt”, “wlog”, “iff”.\overfull \hbox or \vbox errors.The bibliography is the .bib file, which is required during final submission, and should contain all references.
@article {MR1333035,
AUTHOR = {Wiles, A.},
TITLE = {Modular elliptic curves and {F}ermat's last theorem},
JOURNAL = {Ann. of Math. (2)},
FJOURNAL = {Annals of Mathematics. Second Series},
VOLUME = {141},
YEAR = {1995},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {443--551},
DOI = {10.2307/2118559},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.2307/2118559},
ISSN = {0003-486X},
MRCLASS = {11G05 (11D41 11F11 11F80 11G18)},
MRNUMBER = {1333035},
MRREVIEWER = {Karl Rubin}}
@misc{KT,
AUTHOR = {Khare, A. and Lastname, F.},
EPRINT = {1708.05197},
EPRINTTYPE = {arxiv},
TITLE = {Title of the arXiv preprint},
YEAR = {2017}}
(Do not use @article, but @misc. Use EPRINT etc. if there is an arXiv identifier).
Please make your submission through the SoftConf website. You will need to indicate the presenter name and also if the paper qualifies for consideration for the “best student paper” prize. For questions regarding the submissions, please email us at fpsac2025+submission@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp.