Welcome to The Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory
The Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory (CeCANT) encompasses a broad spectrum of research with a long and distinguished history at Queen Mary. CeCANT includes over 20 academic staff in the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS). The centre includes a vibrant community of PhD students, fully embedded in our research culture, and has strong research connections with other centres in SMS and beyond.
Within the Faculty of Science and Engineering we align strategically with the Fundamental Discovery Science theme, with the bulk of our research aiming to address fundamental questions in pure mathematics. Our strengths extend to applied mathematical areas, notably game theory in economics and combinatorial optimisation.
News
Recent Publications
- Projective hypersurfaces in tropical scheme theory I: the Macaulay ideal
Fink A, Giansiracusa J, Giansiracusa N and Mundinger J
Research in The Mathematical Sciences, Springer
25-04-2025 - Extensions of transversal valuated matroids
Fink A and Olarte JA
European Journal of Combinatorics, Elsevier vol. 127
19-03-2025 - Matroids and the space of torus-invariant subvarieties of the Grassmannian with given homology class
Elizondo EJ, Fink A and Garay López C
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Elsevier vol. 229 (6)
13-03-2025
Recent Grants
- NIA: Moments of higher-rank L-functions
Subhajit Jana
£188,990 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-05-2025 - 30-04-2027 - COW Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Heilbronn 2025)
Navid Nabijou
£1,050 Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
01-02-2025 - 30-09-2025 - Fourier coefficients, periods and L-functions
Abhishek Saha
£75,827 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
18-12-2024 - 17-12-2025