The British Combinatorial Conference returns to Queen Mary Univesity of London in the first week of July. The web page is here.
Last time when the conference was there, and I was one of the organisers, the insttution was called “Queen Mary and Westfield College”. We had 319 delegates, a record which has never been broken. When I came to allocate the last contributed talk slot, there were two delegates, fortunately good friends. I offered to toss a coin for the 15 minute slot, but they asked if they could have seven and a half minutes each.
The week was beautifully sunny. The publishers moved their stalls outdoors into the library quad, which was like a street market. Unfortunately I was trapped in the conference office dealing with complaints most of the time. (One delegate didn’t like the breakfasts and wanted a refund, another had left his camera bag at the back of the lecture theatre and came back to find it gone, and so on.)
This time I will be an ordinary delegate; I will not seek re-election to the committee, and just present my contributed talk (and maybe perform at the concert if there is one).
We probably won’t break the record this time, but I hope to see many old friends there.
About Peter Cameron
I count all the things that need to be counted.
