ASIACOMB 2026, the inaugural conference of the ASIACOMB series, was held at the Daejeon Convention Center (DCC) in Daejeon, Korea from August 24 to August 28, 2026. ASIACOMB is a biennial conference held in Asia that promotes international collaboration by strengthening research connections and providing a high-level forum for ideas in combinatorics. It was organized by the IBS Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group, with Hong Liu (IBS ECOPRO) as the chair of the organizing committee, together with Felix Christian Clemen (University of Victoria), Zichao Dong (IBS ECOPRO), Seonghyuk Im (KIAS), Suyun Jiang (Jianghan University), and Zhuo Wu (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
The conference featured nine plenary talks, a prize winner talk by Huy Tuan Pham, the winner of the Asian Prize for Combinatorics, as well as 145 contributed talks and 6 poster presentations.
The plenary speakers were:
- Anton Bernshteyn (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Jie Han (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Mihyun Kang (Graz University of Technology)
- Jaehoon Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
- Allen Knutson (Cornell University)
- Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University and University of Ljubljana)
- Alexander Postnikov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Van Vu (University of Hong Kong)
- Joshua Zahl (Nankai University)