Combinatorics at Warwick

Dates:

• Monday 14 - Friday 18 December 2026

Organisers:

• Richard Montgomery (WarwickLink opens in a new window)
• Oleg Pikhurko (WarwickLink opens in a new window)

Venue:

• Warwick Mathematics Institute, The University of Warwick
  • Talks will be in B3.03
  • Lunches and coffee breaks: location TBC

Abstract:

This workshop aims at disseminating results obtained with the support of the ERC grants of the organisers, showcasing other research in combinatorics carried out at Warwick and starting new collaborations. All talks will be by invitation only.

Speakers:

• Natalie BehagueLink opens in a new window (DCU)
• Levente BodnarLink opens in a new window (Paradine)
• Matt BowenLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)
• Candy BowtellLink opens in a new window (University of Birmingham)
• Matija BucićLink opens in a new window (University of Vienna)
• Jan GrebíkLink opens in a new window (Charles University, Prague)
• Dan KráľLink opens in a new window (Leipzig)
• Matt KwanLink opens in a new window (ISTA)
• András MáthéLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)
• Alexey PokrovskiyLink opens in a new window (UCL)
• Katherine StadenLink opens in a new window (Open University)
• Shumin SunLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick, moving to University of Birmingham)
• Jan VolecLink opens in a new window (Czech Technical University in Prague)
• Shoham LetzterLink opens in a new window (UCL)

Registration:

The registration fee is £150 and includes all lunches and coffee breaks. The registration form offers options for additionally booking the conference dinner at the cost of £35 (on 15 December in Scarman). If you would like to attend, please complete your registration here.

The payment link can be accessed here: Payment for Combinatorics at Warwick. Please pay the registration fee by Monday 30 November.

Accommodation

If you require accommodation, you can book B&B single occupancy room at Scarman via this promotional code below for £99 per night checking in any time from Sunday 13th to Friday 18th December. Promo code - MCWBB https://bandb.warwick.ac.uk.

Financial assistance:

As of now, the organisers cannot offer financial assistance, apart that they will consider waiving the registration fee in special cases (researchers not having any travel grants, or coming only for 1-2 days, etc). If you'd like to be considered for this, please tick the corresponding box on the registration form.

Questions:

For questions related to the scientific programme of the schedule, please please contact one of the organisers. For various non-scientific matters (accommodation, letters confirming participation, reimbursement forms for invited speakers, etc), please contact the MRC office.

Schedule:

The scientific programme will start at 9:30 on 14 December (Monday) and finish around noon on 18 December (Friday). We plan to have the afternoons of 16 and 17 December (Wednesday and Thursday) free; the participants are welcome to use this time for collaboration, discussions, etc.

Funding:

This workshop is supported by ERC grants 947978 "Spanning Subgraphs in Graphs" and 101020255 "Finite and Descriptive Combinatorics"