Dr Candida Bowtell MSci DPhil

Dr Candida Bowtell

School of Mathematics
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
c.bowtell@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Mathematics
Watson Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Candy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematics. Previously, she was Research Fellow supported by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship working on 'Large structures in hypergraphs'. She is a member of the combinatorics group, and her research interests lie in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, with a particular focus on problems in extremal (hyper)graph theory.

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Qualifications

  • DPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford.
  • MSci in Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

Biography

Prior to her Leverhulme ECF, Candy was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick, working with Richard Montgomery. She completed her DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Peter Keevash.

Teaching

  • LH/LM Graph Theory (Semester 1)

Postgraduate supervision

Candy is interested in supervising PhD students in combinatorics. If you are interested, please get in touch.

Research

Candy’s research interests lie in combinatorics, with a focus on extremal and probabilistic (hyper)graph theory. Much of Candy’s research focuses on embedding and decomposition problems, searching for large, often spanning, structures in classes of graphs and hypergraphs.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Bowtell, C & Mycroft, R 2025, 'Matchings in multipartite hypergraphs', Combinatorial Theory, vol. 5, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.05219, https://doi.org/10.5070/C65165019

Bowtell, C, Morris, P, Pehova, Y & Staden, K 2025, 'Universality for transversal Hamilton cycles', Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13223

Bowtell, C & Hyde, J 2022, 'A Degree Sequence Strengthening of the Vertex Degree Threshold for a Perfect Matching in 3-Uniform Hypergraphs', SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1038-1063. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1364825

Bowtell, C & Mycroft, R 2019, 'Classification of Maximum Hittings by Large Families', Graphs and Combinatorics, vol. 36, pp. 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-019-02115-1

Other chapter contribution

Bowtell, C, Devillers, A, Kündgen, A, Ó. Catháin, P & Wanless, I 2025, 2023 MATRIX Annals: Extendibility of Latin Hypercuboids. in 2023 MATRIX Annals. pp. 681.

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