Surveys in combinatorics 2009

Preface 1. Graph decompositions and symmetry Arrigo Bonisoli 2. Combinatorics of optimal designs R. A. Bailey and Peter J. Cameron 3. Regularity and the spectra of graphs W. H. Haemers 4. Trades and t-designs G. B. Khosrovshahi and B. Tayfeh-Rezaie 5. Extremal graph packing problems: Ore-type versus Dirac-type H. A. Kierstead, A. V. Kostochka, and G. Yu 6. Embedding large subgraphs into dense graphs Daniela Kuhn and Deryk Osthus 7. Counting planar graphs and related families of graphs Omer Gimenez and Marc Noy 8. Metrics for sparse graphs B. Bollobas and O. Riordan 9. Recent results on chromatic and flow roots of graphs and matroids G. F. Royle.