British Combinatorial Committee

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Committee business

The British Combinatorial Committee is a body which works for the support of combinatorial and discrete mathematics in the United Kingdom. The Committee is a charity, registered in Scotland, number SC019723. You can read the constitution (approved at the business meeting of BCC2007) here.

Annual reports are available from 2006:

The Committee was founded in 1977, with Richard Rado as chair. An article by Norman Biggs describing the prehistory of the Committee can be found here. Subsequently the chair was held by Dominic Welsh and Crispin Nash-Williams.

The present membership of the committee is: Peter Cameron (chair), Peter Rowlinson (secretary), Keith Edwards (treasurer), David Penman (Bulletin editor), Robin Chapman (BCC23 organiser), Andrew Drizen (2010 PCC organiser), Bridget Webb, James Hirschfeld, Jan van den Heuvel, and Oliver Riordan.

BCC23

The Committee's main function is to run the biennial British Combinatorial Conference. The next (23rd) BCC will be held at the University of Exeter, on 3-8 July 2011; the local organiser is Robin Chapman.

Other BCCs

The twenty-second BCC was held at the University of St Andrews on 5-10 July 2009; the local organisers were Sophie Huczynska, Colva Roney-Dougal, and James Mitchell, and the Web page is available.

Details of past BCCs are available (thanks to Keith Edwards).

Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference

The 2010 Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, on 7-9 July 2010. The local organisers are Andy Drizen and John Faben, and the web page is available here.

The 2009 PCC was held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 22-24 June 2009. The local organiser was Arezou Soleimanfallah.

Other conferences

Some forthcoming conferences sponsored by the BCC:

Open University Winter Combinatorics Meeting, Milton Keynes, England, UK, 20 January 2010: Web page
Oxford 1-day Combinatorics Meeting, Oxford, England, UK, 17 March 2010
London Combinatorics Colloquia, London, England, UK, 19-20 May 2010
21st Postgraduate Combinatorics Conference, London, England, UK, 7-9 July 2010: Web page
23rd British Combinatorial Conference, Exeter, England, UK, 3-8 July 2011

Further conferences are listed on the Conference web page.

Bulletin and information

The committee publishes the British Combinatorial Bulletin, an annual survey of people, publications, lecture course, news and movements. It also sponsors a research students' conference and various one-day conferences.

The Bulletin is available in a World Wide Web version. Following a decision of the business meeting at BCC18, the Bulletin will only be available in electronic format from 2002; an archive edition will be produced once a year. Please contact the editor, David Penman, at the University of Essex, in case of difficulty.

The Bulletin editor also produces the British Combinatorial Newsletter. All issues are available here.

Peter Cameron
11 December 2009