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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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The April 2012 Bulletin appears here in pdf format. You can view or retrieve it
either as a single file,
or (if your computer finds large files cumbersome) in four parts:
front
matter, List A,
List B,
List C. Please note that these
versions of Lists A, B and C are not updated in September each year:
the ones which are updated in September are below.
Please let us know if you have any difficulties with this arrangement. Note that the single file is the definitive version.
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.
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 updates in April and September each year. (Last update September 2012). What appears in the Bulletin each year is the snapshot of the lists in April. Note that List C is not updated in Autumn each year.
We hope to keep the lists as accurate and up to date as possible: if you see errors or omissions in the lists, please email them to the Editor (email details as above). Similarly if you or your institution wish to be added to the Bulletin, please email the Editor.
The British combinatorial newsletter is produced twice annually in the autumn and spring and are available here. The most recent newsletter was in September 2012.
The British Combinatorial Committee organises the biennial British Combinatorial Conference. The next conference (the 24th) will be at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) from Monday 1-Friday 5 July 2013. (Arrival date Sunday 30 June 2013). The Local Organiser will be Simon Blackburn, with other organisers Stefanie Gerke and Mark Wildon. The website is http://bcc2013.ma.rhul.ac.uk
The invited speakers are Jacob Fox (MIT), Massimo Giulietti (Perugia), Tor Helleseth (Bergen) , Jan van den Heuvel (LSE), Jozef Širáň (OU), Einar Steingrímsson (Strathclyde), Kristina Vušković (Leeds), Geoff Whittle (Victoria, NZ) and Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers).
In the week following the BCC, there will also be a meeting "Combinatorics, Algebra and More" at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in celebration of Peter Cameron's contributions to mathematics. The dates are 8-10 July 2013 (arrival date 7 July) and the event will be hosted by Queen Mary. We hope this will be of interest to many of those also at the BCC.
The most recent conference (the 23nd) took place at Exeter from 3-8 July 2011. The Local Organiser was Robin Chapman.
For the archive of past BCCs see http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/kedwards/bcc/past.html
The Committee also organises the (almost!) annual Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference (PCC). The most recent took place at Warwick from 15-17 August 2012, hosted by Konrad Dąbrowski and Chris Purcell. The webpage is http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/pcc2012 and the abstracts booklet (and other information) is at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/pcc2012/booklet.pdf
In 2013 it is planned that it will be at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) hosted by Andrew McDowell. More details will be announced later.
Other regular meetings in Combinatorics, supported by the Committee, are held at:
Reading: The 5th "Old Codgers' Meeting" at Reading will be on Wednesday 31 October 2012 at Reading. The speakers are Norman Biggs (LSE, "Thoughts on strongly regular graphs"), Peter Cameron (QMUL, "Multiorders and Diophantine approximation"), Jackie Daykin (RHUL/KCL, "A bijective variant of the Burrows-Wheeler transform using V-order"), Fred Holroyd (Open, "A Herculean victory for Giuseppe Piano"), Eoin Long (QMUL, "Perturbing Sperner's theorem"), and David Penman (Essex, "Fixed point polynomials of permutation groups"). Further details such as abstracts are here
Open University: The next OU meeting will be on Wednesday 30 January 2013 and the speakers will be Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Bordeaux), David Conlon (Oxford), David Evans (UEA), Iain Moffatt (arriving at RHUL in Autumn 2012) and Steve Noble (Brunel). The usual webpage http://wcm.open.ac.uk/ which also contains details of past meetings; will have more details in due course.
London: The most recent pair of linked one-day meetings took place on Wednesday 16 May 2012 (at QMUL) and Thursday 17 May 2012 (at LSE). Further details can be found on http://www2.lse.ac.uk/maths/Seminars/Colloquia_2012.aspx It is hoped there will be a similar meeting next year.
Oxford: The most recent Oxford Meeting took place on Wednesday 30 May 2012. Speakers were Louigi Addario-Berry, Béla Bollobás, Jacob Fox, Jarik Nešetřil and Benny Sudakov. It is hoped there will be a similar meeting next year (though the time of year may change somewhat).
This year the Committee also supported the Franco-British workshop on Analytic Combinatorics at the Department of Statistics in Oxford from Wednesday 5-Friday 7 September 2012. The website for the event is http://www-apr.lip6.fr/~lumbroso/Events/Oxford12/ The organisers were Julien David (Paris 13), Jéremie Lumbroso (Paris 6) and Kerstin Weller (Oxford).
Another forthcoming meeting likely to be of interest is the meeting on Geometric and Topological Graph Theory at Bristol from 15 to 19 April 2013. The website is http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maakn/GTGT2013 and more details will be available there in due course. The organisers are Tom McCourt and Tony Nixon (Bristol).
Some other events which have attracted support from the committee in the last few years include a Workshop on Extremal Combinatorics in Birmingham from 15-16 September 2008 organised by Demetres Christofides, Nikolaos Fountoulakis, Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus: a meeting on Algebra, Combinatorics and Dynamics in Belfast from 17-21 August 2009, organised by Natalia Iyudu, and the DIMAP Workshop on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics in Petersfield, Hants from 18-25 July 2010, organised by Jan Hladký and Diana Piguet.
This set of links is under development: we hope to add some more before too long.
British Combinatorial Committee Homepage
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/bcc.html
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 Lists, for BCC 19
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/bcc/bccp19.pdf
British Combinatorial Conference Problem Lists, for BCC 22
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~pjc/preprints/prob22.pdf
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
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/people/
Includes various links.
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)
The Maths Archive:
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math
Especially
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.CO of course.....
American Mathematical Society:
http://www.ams.org/mr-database
Includes access to MathReviews (subscription requires) and to MR Lookup.
Zentralblatt:
http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en
Gives access to Zentralblatt reviews.
London Mathematical Society
http://www.lms.ac.uk
Isaac Newton Institute
http://www.newton.ac.uk/
European Mathematical Society
http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/
American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/
Edinburgh Mathematical Society
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~ems/
Societé Mathematique de France
http://smf.emath.fr
Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
https://www.dmv.mathematik.de
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 minimal: use is, so to speak, at your own risk.
Birmingham: http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/D.Osthus/bham.html
Bristol: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/events/seminars/series/index.php?id=41
Cambridge: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/Seminars/Combinatorics
Durham: http://www.dur.ac.uk/tom.friedetzky/acidsem.html
LSE: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/maths/Seminars/Seminar.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/maths/events/seminars/discrete-geometry-combinatorics
Warwick: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/seminars/
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