The European Prize in Combinatorics is a prize for research in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...

, a mathematical discipline, which is awarded biennially at Eurocomb, the European conference on combinatorics,

graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of '' graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conn ...

, and applications.. The prize was first awarded at Eurocomb 2003 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. Recipients must not be older than 35. The most recent prize was awarded at Eurocomb 2021 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ...

(Online). * 2003

Daniela Kühn Daniela Kühn (born 1973) is a German mathematician and the Mason Professor in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England.

, Deryk Osthus, Alain Plagne. * 2005

Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (born 16 December 1972, in Tomsk, Russia) is a Russian-German mathematician. He works in the field of Applied and Combinatorial Topology, where he publishes under the name ''Dmitry N. Kozlov''. Biography Feichtner-Kozlov ...

* 2007 Gilles Schaeffer. * 2009 Peter Keevash,

Balázs Szegedy Balázs Szegedy is a Hungarian mathematician whose research concerns combinatorics and graph theory. Szegedy earned a master's degree in 1998 and a PhD in 2003 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

* 2011

David Conlon David Conlon (born 1982) is an Irish mathematician who is a Professor of Mathematics at California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinat ...

, Daniel Kráľ * 2013 Wojciech Samotij, Tom Sanders * 2015 Karim Adiprasito,

Zdeněk Dvořák Zdeněk Dvořák (born April 26, 1981) is a Czech mathematician specializing in graph theory. Dvořák was born in Nové Město na Moravě. He competed on the Czech national team in the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad, and in the same ye ...

, Rob Morris * 2017

Christian Reiher Christian Reiher (born 19 April 1984 in Starnberg) is a German mathematician. He is the fifth most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a br ...

Maryna Viazovska Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska ( uk, Марина Сергіївна Вязовська, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of M ...

* 2019 Richard Montgomery and Alexey Pokrovskiy * 2021 Péter Pál Pach,

Julian Sahasrabudhe Julian Sahasrabudhe (born May 8, 1988) is a Canadian mathematician who is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, in their Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. His research interests are in ...

Lisa Sauermann Lisa Sauermann (born 25 September 1992) is a mathematician from Germany known for her performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad, where in 2011 she had the single highest (and perfect) score. She won four gold medals (2008–2011) and ...

István Tomon István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to: People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal * Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first ...

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