#Sprouts2026 was yesterday and it was great! Sprouts is our annual conference in abstract games (often #CombinatorialGames) where students present #UndergradResearch for the contributed talks.

Here are my summaries of the talks: https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/04/sprouts-2026-summaries.html

Here are a bunch of my after-the-fact thoughts: https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/04/sprouts-2026-afterthoughts.html

I need to make sure I figure a bunch of those things out in time for next year!

Thank you to everyone who attended and especially to all of our great speakers. Craig and I agreed that we're very lucky to get such amazing talks!

We have a big slate of talks for #Sprouts2026, a bunch of attendees, but no computer players submitted yet! You might be able to win the tournament just be submitting a #BattleSheep player that makes legal moves! Instructions are here: https://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2026/sprouts2026ComputerTournament.php

The #Sprouts2026 program is coming along! We have nine contributed talks all lined up (from undergrads) and our keynote info should be going up later this week. https://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2026/

#CombinatorialGames #UndergradResearch

#ICCGTJ is already over! The last day of talks great! Here are my summaries: https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/03/international-cgt-in-japan-day-four.html

Thanks to all the organizers and to everyone spreading #CombinatorialGames in Japan!

We had another great day of #ICCGTJ yesterday! Here are my quick talk summaries: https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/03/international-cgt-in-japan-day-three.html

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When did mathematicians start pronouncing the union symbol as "cup" during talks? I feel like this conference is the first time I've heard that, but it's happened multiple times.

I especially want to know: which came first, the pronunciation or the \cup (La)TeX command?

#ICCGTJ #TeXAndLaTeX

Day two of #ICCGTJ was excellent! We had multiple talks by teams of high schoolers, which is absolutely amazing. Here are my quick summaries: combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/03/international-cgt-in-japan-day-two.html

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Here are my summaries of the first day of talks at the International Conference on CGT in Japan (#ICCGTJ): https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2026/03/international-cgt-in-japan-day-one-talks.html

Conference site: https://deguchikikaku.sakura.ne.jp/

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Added another game to my playable list of games. (I implemented this year ago, then somehow lost it.) You can now play #Slimetrail: https://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/slimetrail.html

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Craig made our poster for #Sprouts2026! It's up on the site now. https://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2026/

More #FjordsGame at #GameLunch