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
- Rapid Mixing of the Flip Chain over Non-Crossing Spanning Trees
Anand K Feng W Freifeld G Guo H Jerrum M Wang J
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics. vol. 332
20-06-2025 - Asymmetry of 2-step transit probabilities in 2-coloured regular graphs
Johnson JR Gray R
Discrete Mathematics vol. 348 (12)
19-06-2025 - Projective hypersurfaces in tropical scheme theory I: the Macaulay ideal
Fink A Giansiracusa J Giansiracusa N Mundinger J
Research in The Mathematical Sciences, Springer
25-04-2025
Recent Grants
- CeCANT - Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships - R2 - Combinatorics and geometry of matroids and polytopes (Federico Ardila)
Federico Ardila and Alex Fink
£319,462 Royal Society
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2030 - COW Algebraic Geometry Seminar (INI 2025)
Navid Nabijou
£9,000 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2027 - Prophet Inequalities for Mixtures
Felix Fischer
£63,326 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2026