The 28th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference (PCC) will be held in London on 15-17 April 2024.

The PCC 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. The PCC is mainly aimed at UK-based students but is also open to those from abroad.

The main goal of the conference 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. Each student is encouraged to contribute by giving a talk which will last 25 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions).

Location

On the 15th and 16th the talks will be in LSE room MAR.2.08 (Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 2ES) . 

On the 17th the talks will be in UCL Room 505 (UCLU, 25 Gordon St, WC1H 0AY).

Invited Speakers

We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers.

• Carla Groenland (Delft University of Technology), "Labelling schemes and universal graphs"

• Richard Montgomery (University of Warwick), "Finding regular subgraphs" "Finding Regular Subgraphs"

• Alexey Pokrovskiy  (University College London), "Structures in expander graphs"

• Julia Wolf (University of Cambridge), "Efficient regularity lemmas"

Fees and Registration

Registration to attend the conference and payment can be completed here. Registrations will close on the 14th of April 2024. The registration costs £30 (an additional 10£ will be charged to join the conference dinner). 

Contributed talks

Each student is encouraged to contribute by giving a talk which will last 25 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions). Those who wish to contribute a talk should follow this template, (which can also be found on GitHub here) and send the generated .tex and .pdf documents to pcc2024@gmx.com by 15 March 2024.

Conference booklet

The booklet with the conference schedule and a list of the abstracts has been sent by email to the attendees. You can also find it here . If there are any clashes and you need to reschedule your talk please email us at pcc2024@gmx.com.

Conference dinner

There will be a conference dinner on the 16th of April at nostimo .

Financial support

We might be able to provide some financial support. Further information on how to access refunds for travelling will be given during the conference. If your possibility of attending the conference depends on our financial support, please send an email to pcc2024@gmx.com by the 15th of March).

We have allocated part of our grants to fund child-care services for visiting researchers. To take advantage of this opportunity, it is recommended that you make contact with the organisers (by sending an email to pcc2024@gmx.com) at the earliest convenience to ensure proper arrangements are made. 

Accommodation

Participants are to make their own accommodation arrangements. We recommend the following options:

•  Imperial hotels  has several hotels 15' walk from UCL and LSE.

• Travelodge at Euston road is 5' walk from UCL and 20' walk from LSE

Organisers

• Kyriakos Katsamaktsis kyriakos.katsamaktsis.21@ucl.ac.uk

• Joanna Lada  j.m.lada@lse.ac.uk

• Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli  d.mergoni@lse.ac.uk

• Alp Müyesser alp.muyesser.21@ucl.ac.uk

Contact

For any queries, email us at pcc2024@gmx.com 

Sponsors

The 2024 edition of the PCC is made possible by the support of the London Mathematical Society, the British Combinatorial Committee, the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University College of London (UCL) and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR), with funding from the UKRI/EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences.