** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT **We have become aware of a phishing scam requesting arrival and departure dates and offering to reserve accommodation during the conference. The conference organisers will only contact you using @qmul.ac.uk email addresses, and if you are in any doubt about the legitimacy of a request please don't hesitate to get in touch
Intersection Theory of Matroids: Variations on a Theme
Clay Lecturer
Photo credit: May-Li Khoe
Erdős Covering Systems
The Cluster Expansion in Combinatorics
Sublinear Expanders and Their Applications
Transversals in Latin Squares
Photo credit: Petra Lein, Copyright: MFO
Finite Field Models in Additive Combinatorics - Twenty Years On
Photo credit: Dan Komoda, Institute of Advanced Study
The Slice Rank Polynomial Method
Richard Rado Lecturer
An Introduction to Transshipments Over Time
Oriented Trees and Paths in Digraphs
Probabilistic Combinatorics organised by Gal Kronenberg (Oxford) and Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv)
Michael Krivelevich (Tel Aviv)Katherine Staden (Open University)Tyler Helmuth (Durham)Adva Mond (Cambridge)
Extremal Combinatorics organised by Eoin Long (Birmingham) and Candida Bowtell (Warwick)
Nina Kamčev (Zagreb)Matthew Kwan (ISTA)Alp Müyesser (UCL)Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv)
Combinatorial Optimisation organised by László Végh (LSE)
Justin Ward (QMUL)Giacomo Zambelli (LSE)Ola Svensson (EPFL)Yelena Yuditsky (ULB)
Combinatorial Geometry and Matroids organised by Felipe Rincón (QMUL)
Luis Ferroni (KTH)Ben Smith (Lancaster)Rudi Pendavingh (Eindhoven)
Designs/Algebraic Combinatorics organised by Sophie Huczynska (St Andrews)
Jim Davis (Richmond)Maura Paterson (Birkbeck)Shuxing Li (Delaware)Bridget Webb (Open University)Ian Wanless (Monash)
Additive Combinatorics organised by Thomas Bloom (Oxford)
Matthew Bowen (Oxford)Zach Hunter (ETH Zurich)Ioannis Kousek (Warwick)Victor Souza (Cambridge)
We expect many participants to arrive on Sunday evening. The academic schedule will run from 9am on Monday until 5pm on Friday. A link to the full schedule can be found below.
Conference schedule
Book of abstracts
Talks will be held in the ArtsTwo and the Bancroft Buildings, numbers 35 and 31 on the campus map.
A registration session will take place 3-5pm on on Sunday 30 June in the Mathematical Sciences building, number 4 on the campus map.
Please note, to get to the Mathematical Sciences Building you may have to enter campus from Bancroft Road and keep left around the building site.
You will also be able to register in ArtsTwo Building from 08:15am on Monday 1 July and throughout the conference.
There’s a lot going on in London and many participants will want to fill the time in their own way. But if you are in need of inspiration, here is a self guided walk [PDF 6,600KB] with many distractions along the way. Download the GPX file below to keep yourself on track.
This is East London, but not of the “Eastenders” kind.
Blackheath - Museum of London Docklands.gpx [PDF 14KB]
The British Combinatorial Committee (BCC) announces its second BCC PhD Prize in Combinatorics, to be awarded at the 30th British Combinatorial Conference for an outstanding UK PhD thesis in the field of Combinatorics, broadly interpreted. Details concerning eligibility, the nomination process, dates, and the award of the prize can be found at the BCC PhD Thesis Prize webpage.
Participants will be encouraged to submit an abstract on a topic related to the conference and give a 20-minute presentation.
Participants are encouraged to submit an abstract on a topic relevant to the conference and give a presentation. The deadline for submission is 5th May, 2024. Please use the latex template provided below and send your abstract (both .tex and .pdf files) to the conference organisers at bcc-2024@qmul.ac.uk with the subject 'Abstract submission'.
YourFirstName-YourLastName.tex [DOC 3KB]
Registration for the 30th British Combinatorial Conference has now closed.
A barbecue will take place on the evening of Tuesday 2nd July. If you would like to attend the barbecue, please purchase a ticket via the conference registration link.
The conference will take place on Queen Mary's Mile End Campus, which is located between Stepney Green and Mile End tube stations.
Participants will be responsible for their travel and accommodation arrangements, and are encouraged to book early to minimise cost and avoid disappointment.
Options for budget accommodation include the following. They have not been inspected or endorsed by the conference.
Limited funding is available to support travel and accommodation of participants based in a developing country, junior participants (within 5 years of their PhD and not holding a permanent or tenure-track position), and UK-based PhD students.
To apply for support, please send and email titled 'Request for financial support' to bcc-2024@qmul.ac.uk and include a short CV, including a list of publications; in the case of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, a letter of support from the supervisor. Please also include an estimate of your costs and a statement that you do not have access to alternative funding to cover these costs.
The deadline for applications is 31st March, 2024. Funding decisions will be communicated well ahead of the registration deadline. Late applications will only be considered should funds remain unspent.
To receive support, participants must pay the registration fee and give a contributed talk at the conference.
We are grateful for financial support from the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, the London Mathematical Society, and the British Combinatorial Committee. The conference is organised in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute.
The principal organisers are Felix Fischer and Robert Johnson.