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BC Conference
BC Conference
The British Combinatorial Conference is held every two years at a UK university. It features nine renowned plenary speakers showcasing the full range of combinatorial mathematics, alongside several mini-symposia on more specialised topics and contributed talks.
The next British Combinatorial Conference will take place at Cardiff University 6-10 July 2026. Further details will be announced in due course.
A list of previous conferences is available from the Archive section of this website.
Surveys in Combinatorics
Surveys in Combinatorics
The Surveys in Combinatorics are published by Cambridge University Press, and consists of survey articles by the invited speakers of the British Combinatorial Conference. Taken together these surveys give a snapshot of the research frontier in contemporary combinatorics, making the latest developments accessible to researchers and graduate students in mathematics and theoretical computer science with an interest in combinatorics.
Surveys in Combinatorics 2024 (edited by Felix Fischer and Robert Johnson, with articles by Federico Ardila, Paul Balister, Matthew Jenssen, Shoham Letzter, Richard Montgomery, Sarah Peluse, Lisa Sauermann, Martin Skutella, Maya Stein)
Surveys in Combinatorics 2022 (edited by Anthony Nixon and Sean Prendiville, with articles by Noga Alon, József Balogh, László Végh, David Ellis, Valentina Pepe, Alexey Pokrovskiy, Paul Wollan, Josephine Yu)
BCC PhD Thesis Prize
BCC PhD Thesis Prize
The Bailey-Cameron Combinatorics PhD Thesis Prize (BCC PhD Thesis Prize) was introduced in 2022 to recognise outstanding UK PhD research in the field of Combinatorics, broadly interpreted. Combinatorics is a strong mathematical field in the UK, with work at PhD level regularly influencing international developments in the area. The prize is awarded biennially, in a prize ceremony at the British Combinatorial Conference. The prize winner is invited to give a prize lecture at this meeting.
For its first two editions, the prize was known as the BCC PhD Thesis Prize, and was renamed in 2025 in honour of Professors Rosemary A. Bailey and Peter J. Cameron, whose research in combinatorics and related fields, professional service, and dedication to PhD supervision have been highly influential in the UK and international mathematics communities. You can read more about them here.
The prize is generously sponsored by the Heilbronn Institute, the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, and Cambridge University Press.
Nominations are now open for the BCC PhD Thesis Prize 2026, with the deadline of 19 January 2026. To be eligible, the PhD must have been awarded by a UK institution in the two years prior to the cut-off date.
Further details on the nomination process can be found on the Opportunities page.
Past Winners
2024 Winner: Bertille Granet (citation | thesis)
2024 Highly commended: Bishal Deb (citation | thesis) and Maria Ivan (citation | thesis)
PC Conference
PC Conference
The Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference is a well-established three-day event promoted by the British Combinatorial Committee. The conference is organised by, and for, current research students in all areas of combinatorial and discrete mathematics. Its main goal is to provide an opportunity for research students to discuss their research in a relaxed environment, to gain practice at presenting their research outside of their own department and to meet other researchers in their area.
The next Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference will place in Glasgow 30 April - 2 May 2025. For further details please see the conference website.
A list of previous conferences is available from the Archive section of this website.
BC Bulletin
BC Bulletin
The British Combinatorial Bulletin is produced under the auspices of the British Combinatorial Committee. It provides details of activities in combinatorial mathematics taking place in Britain in the previous year, including lists of combinatorialists, information about each institution and recent publications. The current Editor is David Penman.
The latest copy is available below. Previous editions are available from the Archive section of this website. Hard copies are kept in the Committee’s archive and may be obtained from the Editor.
The Bulletin Editor relies on information provided by institutional representatives. If you wish to become a representative for an institution which does not currently have one, please contact the Editor.
British Combinatorial Bulletin May 2025, September updates to List A and List B
BC Newsletter
BC Newsletter
The British Combinatorial Newsletter aims to provide timely information about details of forthcoming meetings, summaries of recent movements of people, visitors, PhD theses, and outreach activities. It may from time to time also cover recent breakthrough results in the subject or a curious combinatorial problem.
The latest copy is available below. Previous editions are available from the Archive section of this website.
Informal enquiries about the suitability of an item for inclusion in the newsletter may be made to the BC Bulletin Editor at any time.
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