Interactions with Combinatorics

29 - 30 June 2017, University of Birmingham

The workshop will focus on the interactions between Combinatorics and other areas of Mathematics. The lectures will take place in Lecture Rooms A and C of the Watson Building (Campus map). The workshop is supported by the School of Mathematics, EPSRC and the British Combinatorial Committee.

Invited Speakers

Zdenek Dvorak (Prague), Polynomial expansion
Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford), Amplifiers for the Moran Process
Peter Hegarty (Chalmers University of Technology), Opinion dynamics
Daniel Horsley (Monash), Locating arrays and disjoint partitions
Oleg Pikhurko (Warwick), Measurable Combinatorics
Oriol Serra (Barcelona), Linear analogues of additive theorems
Julia Wolf (Bristol), Arithmetic regularity lemmas
Yufei Zhao (Oxford), Large deviations in discrete random structures

Abstracts and timetable

The book of abstracts for the workshop can be found here. The provisional timetable is available here.

Contributed talks

As well as the eight 45 minute invited talks, there will be chance for some participants to
give 20 minute contributed talks. If you would like to give a talk at the event please email Allan Lo
(s.a.lo @ bham.ac.uk) or Andrew Treglown (a.c.treglown @ bham.ac.uk) with a talk title and abstract by May 31st.

Registration

Registration for the workshop is free. If you plan to attend the workshop could you email Allan Lo (s.a.lo @ bham.ac.uk) or
Andrew Treglown (a.c.treglown @ bham.ac.uk) by June 16th to confirm this.

Student support

There is some money available to support the travel of PhD students to the event. Priority will be given to those
students who give contributed talks. Please email one of the organisers if you would like more information.

Accommodation

Invited speakers will be accommodated at the University Conference Park (venueBirmingham) located on campus.
Other participants may wish to independently book rooms at the conference park also. Rooms are available through venueBirmingham as well as on Booking.com.

BCC2017

The British Combinatorial Conference takes place in Glasgow 3-7 July 2017. Birmingham and Glasgow are connected by a regular direct train service (c. 4 hours) as well as several daily flights.