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The Bulletin provides details of activities in combinatorial mathematics taking place in Britain in the previous year. The most recent Bulletin appears below in pdf format, and can be downloaded by anyone interested. Previous Bulletins are also available, and hard copies are kept in the Committee's archive and may be obtained from the Editor (dbpenman@essex.ac.uk). If you wish to become a representative for an institution which does not currently have one, please contact the editor. You may also download British Combinatorial Newsletters from here.

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2009 British Combinatorial Bulletin

The April 2009 Bulletin appears here in pdf format. You can view or retrieve it either as a single file,
or in four parts: front matter, List A, List B, List C. Please note that these versions of List A and List B are not updated in October each year: the ones which are updated are below.

Please let us know if you have any difficulties with this arrangement.

Note: the full version, with page numbers, is the definitive version: the individual sections have no page numbers and different page breaks.

Note: following a number of requests and one complaint, we have removed email addresses from all archived copies of List A available from this website.

For earlier Bulletins, click here.

Lists A and B

List A: a list of combinatorial mathematicians active in UK institutions.

List B: a list of institutions where combinatorial research is being carried out

These are the most recent versions of the lists, which are normally updated in April and (about) October each year. (Last update September 30 2009). What appears in the Bulletin each year is a snapshot of the Lists at the appropriate time. We hope to keep them as accurate and up to date as possible; if you spot any errors or omissions, please let us know.

If you and/or your institution wish to be included in future issues of the Bulletin, please send us email.
 

British Combinatorial Newsletter

The British combinatorial newsletter is produced twice annually in the autumn and spring and are available here. The most recent newsletter was in October 2009. 

Meetings

The British Combinatorial Committee organises the biennial British Combinatorial Conference. The next conference (the 23nd) will be at Exeter in July 2011. The dates will be 3-8 July 2011. (Note that these dates are slightly earlier than the provisional dates suggested before). The Local Organiser will be Robin Chapman. More details will be announced in due course.

The most recent conference was at St. Andrews from 5-10 July 2009. The local organising committee was Sophie Huczynska, James Mitchell and Colva Roney-Dougal.

For the archive of past BCCs see http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/kedwards/bcc/past.html

The Committee also organises the annual Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference. The next conference will be at Queen Mary, University of London, with dates 7-9 July 2010. (Please note these dates are a little later than originally planned). The local organisers will be Andy Drizen and John Faben. A website for the event has been set up at  http://pcc2010.co.uk and prospective participants can register their interest there. The speakers will include Peter Cameron (QMUL), Jan van den Heuvel (LSE), Deryk Osthus (Birmingham) and Soren Riis (QMUL). As usual, students will be encouraged to talk too. More details will appear later. 

The most recent PCC took place at Royal Holloway from 22-24 June 2009, organised by  Arezou Soleimanfallah (RHUL), Eun-Jong Kim (RHUL) and Sian Jones (Glamorgan).

Other regular meetings in Combinatorics, supported by the Committee, are held at:

Open University: The 11th OU winter meeting now has a provisional date of Wednesday 20 January 2010. The speakers will be Dan Archdeacon (Vermont), Lowell Beineke (Purdue), Leslie Goldberg (Liverpool), Maura Paterson (Birkbeck) and Jozef Skokan (LSE).  Titles are on the website http://wcm.open.ac.uk/  and more details, e.g. abstracts, will be available soon.   Please note that, owing to building works, this will NOT be in "the usual" rooms this year, see the website for details.

Oxford: The next Oxford meeting is planned to take place on Wednesday 17 March 2010. Details will be available on http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/scott  in due course: that site also contains a history of the event.

London: There will be two linked one-day meetings on Wednesday 19 May 2010 (at QMUL) and Thursday 20 May 2010 (at LSE). The speakers at QMUL are (highly) likely to include Imre Barany (UCL), Boris Bukh (Cambridge), Jan van den Heuvel (LSE), Deborah Lockett (Leeds), Eoin Long (Cambridge) and Klas Markström (Umeå): further details, including speakers at LSE, will be announced in due course.

The Committee this year supported (for the 2nd  time) an "Old Codgers meeting" at Reading on Wednesday November 4 2009. Speakers were Fred Holroyd (Open), Donald Keedwell (Surrey), David Larman (New York University and UCL), Curt Lindner (Auburn) and Carole Whitehead (Goldsmiths'). Please click here for more details.  In 2008-9, the committee also this year supported a meeting on Algebra, Combinatorics and Dynamics in Belfast from 17-21 August 2009, see http://natalia.iyudu.googlepages.com/testlay for details of this.

Combinatorial Links

This set of links is under development: we hope to add some more before too long.

1. British Combinatorial Committee related links.

British Combinatorial Committee Homepage
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/bcc.html

Next Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference Homepage
http://pcc2010.co.uk

Past British Combinatorial Conferences
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/kedwards/bcc/past.html

British Combinatorial Conference Problem Lists, for BCCs 12-18
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/allprobs.pdf

British Combinatorial Conference Problem List for BCC 19
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/bccp19.pdf

2. Forthcoming  conferences.

Peter Cameron’s list of forthcoming combinatorial conferences
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/conferences.html

Doug West’s list of forthcoming combinatorial conferences
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~west/meetlist.html

3. Information on combinatorics in general.

World Combinatorics Exchange (also Electronic Journal of Combinatorics):
http://www.combinatorics.org/
Includes “Dynamic Surveys” and links to combinatorial databases (e.g. those of McKay and Royle).

Graph Theory White Pages by Daniel Sanders:
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sanders/graphtheory/

Combinatorics Net:
http://www.combinatorics.net/
Includes a good list of combinatorial journals, and of mathematics seminars.

CADCOM:
http://www.dms.auburn.edu/~rodgec1/cadcom/
Emphasising applications of combinatorics (including elsewhere in mathematics)

4. Preprints

The Maths Archive:
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math
Especially  http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CO of course.....

5. Reviews of Mathematical Papers.

American Mathematical Society:
http://www.ams.org/mr-database
Includes access to MathReviews (subscription requires) and to MR Lookup.

Zentralblatt:
http://www.emis.de/ZMATH/
Gives access to Zentralblatt reviews.

6. Some General (Purish) Mathematical Links

London Mathematical Society
http://www.lms.ac.uk

Isaac Newton Institute
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/

European Mathematical Society
http://www.emis.de/

American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/  

Edinburgh Mathematical Society 
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~ems/

Societé Mathematique de France (English language version!)
http://smf.emath.fr/en/

Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (English language version!)
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/DMV/math-net/index.en.html

Australian Mathematical Society
http://www.austms.org.au/

7. Some UK Combinatorial Seminars 

This is a list of webpages for Combinatorics Seminar series at various places in the UK. We only list seminars which are predominantly or exclusively combinatorics (broadly interpreted): general Pure Maths seminars (or general Mathematics seminars) are not included. The list almost certainly contains omissions: please draw these to the Editor’s attention by emailing dbpenman@essex.ac.uk. Maintenance of the links here will be at best intermittent: use is, so to speak, at your own risk.

Birmingham: http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/D.Osthus/seminar.html

Bristol: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/pure/themes/combinatorics/

Cambridge: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/Seminars/Combinatorics

Durham: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/computing.science/research/seminars/theory/acid2009-10/ 

 LSE:  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/maths/CDAM/CDAM%20Seminars.aspx

Oxford: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/combinatorics

QMUL:  (Study Group): http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/seminar-series/combinatorics-study-group

UCL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Mathematics/department/SeminarDiscreteGeometry.html

Warwick: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/seminars/

Last change: 29 April 2008
Send comments to: dbpenman@essex.ac.uk.