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British Combinatorial Committee Is a Charity Registered in Scotland, No: SC019723 British Combinatorial Bulletin 2011 BRITISH COMBINATORIAL BULLETIN 2011 This is the 2011 British Combinatorial Bulletin. The format is essentially as in previous years. The Newsletter (produced twice a year, in April and October) gives some rather more informal information. I am again this year trying to provide links to papers etc. where I am aware of them, which I hope will help users. Can I again thank all institutional representatives for their enormous help in preparing this Bulletin. The BCB is very much what you make of it, and thus your suggestions (or those of your colleagues) for improvements remain very welcome. If anyone is interested in becoming a representative for an institution which doesn’t currently have one, please let me know – the object of the exercise is to spread information, and so the more representatives we can have the better. You will observe a minor change in format recently – the front matter, while still containing the accounts and this introduction, does not now contain information about forthcoming meetings etc. This is simply because it overlaps with the content of the Newsletter, available at http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/BCB/newsletters.htm - the most recent one is number 10 (April 2011). You are again reminded that the Bulletin Editor also maintains a mailing list for the announcement of meetings, research-student and above level courses, job adverts and other occasional items (e.g. inaugural lectures) in the UK. Any person who wishes to join or leave this list may do so at any time by emailing the Editor (email as below). Use of the list is subject to the listholder being satisfied as to an applicant’s bona fides and to adherence to the Responsible Usage Policy. David Penman Editor 29th April 2011. The BCB webpage is: http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/BCB/ Email should be addressed to: [email protected] The British Combinatorial Committee is a charity registered in Scotland, No: SC019723. Committee Membership. The Committee currently consists of: Peter Cameron (Chairman), Peter Rowlinson (Secretary), Keith Edwards (Treasurer), Robin Chapman (BCC23 Local Organiser), Andy Drizen (2010 PCC organiser), David Penman (Bulletin editor), Bridget Webb (Archivist), Jan van den Heuvel, Oliver Riordan and James Hirschfeld. Support for Conferences Please contact the British Combinatorial Committee if you are thinking of organizing a meeting on combinatorial topics in the UK: in most cases, the Committee can offer financial support. Institutions requesting support are normally expected to make a contribution from their own funds or elsewhere. Proposals for consideration by the Committee, including outline plans and an outline budget, should be sent by email to the Secretary, Peter Rowlinson ([email protected]) Archive Bridget Webb now holds the archive at the Open University. If you have any items for inclusion or would like to see any items please contact her: [email protected] News of forthcoming meetings. As noted in the Introduction, we have moved the news of forthcoming meetings to the Newsletter so as to avoid overlap. Remember that (all) British Combinatorial Newsletters are available at http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/BCB/newsletters.htm and the most recent one, produced at (essentially) the same time as this Bulletin, is number 10. Remember the Newsletter also includes details of e.g. visitors, recent Ph.D theses, jobs and some other items. Accounts Please note that the statement about accounts on the next two pages has still to be approved by the Committee at its meeting in May 2011. BRITISH COMBINATORIAL COMMITTEE Receipts and Payments Account for the period 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010 Year to Year to 30/9/2010 30/9/2009 Receipts £ £ Interest 34.57 429.67 Royalties from Cambridge University Press 1299.43 91.62 Unused parts of grants for one-day conferences 21.64 (Surplus from 21st BCC, Reading, 2007) 3694.25 Total receipts 1355.64 4215.54 Payments Grant for London 2-day conference (QMUL/LSE), May 2009 1400.00 Grants for one-day conferences 1250.00 740.46 Workshop on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, July 2010 800.00 QUB Workshop on Algebra, Combinatorics and Dynamics 500.00 500.00 Postgraduate Combinatorics Conferences 2009, 2010 404.55 Committee meetings expenses (paid to 3 committee members) 250.58 393.26 Open University Combinatorics Prizes 100.00 100.00 (Birmingham Workshop on Extremal Combinatorics, September 08) 500.00 (Deposit for 23rd BCC, Exeter, 2011) 1000.00 Total payments 4705.13 3233.72 Surplus / (deficit) for year (3349.49) 981.82 All funds are unrestricted Statement of Balances as at 30 September 2010 2009 £ £ Bank accounts: Opening balances 23398.56 22416.74 Surplus (deficit) for year (3349.49) 981.82 Closing balances 20049.07 23398.56 Made up of: Bank of Scotland Treasurer’s Account 9894.71 2278.77 Scottish Widows Bank Charity Deposit Account 10154.36 (Scottish Widows Bank Treasury Tracker Account) 21119.79 20049.07 23398.56 The British Combinatorial Committee is a charity registered in Scotland, No: SC019723. BRITISH COMBINATORIAL COMMITTEE (Scottish Charity Number SC019723) The financial statement for the period 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010 was approved by the Trustees on (date): and is signed on their behalf by : Dr K J Edwards (Treasurer) LIST A. Combinatorial Mathematicians based in Britain. A Abdullah, Mohammed KCL Adamaszek, Anna Warwick Adamaszek, Michal Warwick Ahmad, Imtiaz Essex Alexoudas, T. RHUL Ali, A. RHUL Ali, L. RHUL Allen, Dr. Stuart M. Cardiff Al-Kharoosi, Fatma QMUL Al-Seraji, Najm Sussex Al-Zengana, Emad Sussex Anderson, Dr. Ian Glasgow Anthony, Prof. Martin LSE Appa, Prof. Gautam LSE Arrowsmith, Prof QMUL David K. B Babbage, Dr. Steve Vodafone Group Baber, Rahil UCL Bailey, Prof. R.A. QMUL Ball, Prof. Keith M. UCL Bárány, Prof. Imre UCL Barber, B. A. Cambridge Batu, Dr. Tugkan LSE Bedford, Dr. David Keele Belrose, Dr. Caroline Vodafone Group Bending, Dr. Thomas Middlesex D. Biggs, Prof. Norman L. LSE Blackburn, Prof. Simon RHUL Bogacka, Dr. Barbara QMUL Bollobás, Prof. Béla Cambridge Bone, Dr. Nicholas Vodafone Group Bordewich, Dr. Magnus Durham Borovik, Prof. Manchester Alexendre V. Bowler, Dr. Andrew Birkbeck Bray, Dr. John QMUL Briggs, Dr. Keith BT Martlesham Labs Brignall, Dr. Robert Open Brightwell, Prof. G. R. LSE Britnell, Dr. John R. Bristol Brough, Michael QMUL Bryant, Prof. Roger M. Manchester Buchstaber, Prof. V. Manchester Bukh, Boris Cambridge Burrows, Prof. Brian L. Staffordshire Butkovic, Dr. Peter Birmingham Byott, Dr. Nigel P. Exeter C Cameron, Prof. Peter J. QMUL Camina, Prof. Alan R. UEA Campbell, Dr. Colin M. St. Andrews Candela Pokorna, Dr. Cambridge P. Chapman, Dr. Robin J. Exeter Chen, L. RHUL Chen, Prof. Bo Warwick Chetwynd, Prof. A. G Lancaster Chicot, Dr. Katie M. Open Chuzhanova, Prof. Nottingham Trent Nadia Cid, Dr. Carlos RHUL Ciechanowicz, Dr. C. RHUL Claesson, Dr. Anders Strathclyde Clarke, Dr. Francis W. Swansea Clarke, Geoffrey M. Kent Cohen, Prof. D. E. RHUL Coja-Oghlan, Dr. Amin Warwick Coker, T. Cambridge Conlon, Dr. David Cambridge Constable, Robin L. St. Andrews Cook, Gary Sussex Cooley, Jonathan RHUL Cooper, Dr. Colin KCL Cooper, Prof. S. Barry Leeds Cosh, Ben Reading Coutts, Dr. Hannah Dundee Crampton, Dr. Jason RHUL Creed, Paídí RHUL Crofts, Dr. Jonathan J. Nottingham Trent Crouch, Dr. Simon Hewlett-Packard Crowston, R. RHUL Cryan, Dr. Mary Edinburgh Csornyei, Prof. UCL Marianna Curtis, Prof. Robert T. Birmingham Czumaj, Prof. Artur Warwick D Dąbrowski, Konrad Warwick Damerell, Dr. R. Mark RHUL Dantchev, Dr. Stefan Durham Deineko, Dr. Vladimir Warwick Dent, Dr. Alex RHUL Dietmann, Dr. Rainer RHUL Drizen, Andrew QMUL Dugdale, Dr. J. Keith Reading Dukes, Dr. W. Mark B. Strathclyde Duncan, Dr. Andrew J. Newcastle Dyer, Prof. Martin Leeds Džamonja, Prof. Mirna UEA E Eccles, T. Cambridge Edwards, Dr. Keith J. Dundee Efthymiou, Dr. C Warwick Eleftheriou, Andria Essex Ellis, Dr. David Cambridge Englert, Dr. Matthias Warwick Erde, J. P. Cambridge Erlebach, Prof. Thomas Leicester Essam, Prof. John W. RHUL Evans, Prof. David M. UEA Evans, Dr. Edward A. St.Mary's U. C. Everett, Prof. M. G. Greenwich F Faben, John QMUL Fairbairn, Dr. Ben Birkbeck Falconer, Prof. K. J. St. Andrews Falgas-Rouvry, Victor QMUL Fenner, Prof. Trevor I. Birkbeck Fiz Ponteveros, G. Cambridge Fleischmann, Prof. P. Kent Forbes, Dr. Tony.D. Open Forster, Dr. T. E. Cambridge Fountoulakis, Dr. Birmingham Nikolaos Fraire, E. RHUL Friedetzky, Dr. Tom Durham G Gairing, Dr. Martin Liverpool Gardiner, Dr. Tony D. Birmingham Garner, Michelle. RHUL Garrod, Ben Cambridge Gąsieniec, Prof. Leszek Liverpool Gate, James Durham Georgiou, Dr. Nicholas Bristol Gerke, Dr. Stefanie RHUL Gibson, Dr. J. Keith Birkbeck Gilmour, Prof. S. G. QMUL Glass, Prof. Celia A. City Goldberg, Prof. Leslie Liverpool A. Goldberg, Prof. Paul W Liverpool Golovach, Dr.Petr Durham Gordon, Dr. Neil A. Hull Gowers, Prof. W. Tim Cambridge Grannell, Prof. Mike J. Open Grbić, Dr. Jelena Manchester Green, Prof. Ben J. Cambridge Greeen, Darryl RHUL Griggs, Prof. Terry Open Grimm, Uwe Open Grimmett, Prof G. R. Cambridge Grindrod, Prof. Peter Reading Gumbrell, Lee RHUL Gutin, Prof. Gregory RHUL Gwynllyw, Dr. Rhys West of England H Haight, Dr. John A. UCL, London Hall, Dr. Rhiannon Brunel Harden, Christopher Essex Hart, Dr. Sarah Birkbeck Haslegrove, J. Cambridge Hauser, Dr. Raphael Oxford Hetherington, Dr. Nottingham Trent Timothy J. van den Heuvel, Prof. LSE J. Higgins, Prof. Peter M. Essex Hill, Prof. Ray Salford Hilton, Prof. A. J.W. Reading Hirschfeld, Prof. J.W.P. Sussex Hladký, Jan Warwick Hoare, Nick RHUL Hoffman de Visme, Charterhouse School Ivan Holroyd, Dr. Fred C. Open Hook, James Manchester Howard, Dr. John LSE Huczynska, Dr. Sophie St. Andrews Huggett, Dr. Stephen Plymouth Hughes, Dr. Lesley A Ystrad Mynach College Hunt, Dr. Francis Glamorgan Hunter, Dr. Gordon Kingston University J.A.
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