The second Azat Miftakhov Days will take place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 July, 2022, in solidarity with Azat Miftakhov, a mathematics graduate student from the Moscow State University who has been arbitrarily detained by Russian state authorities since February 2019.
Registration deadline: 31 May 2022
This year's British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC73), which is supported by the LMS, will take place on 6-9 June 2022, and will be hosted by King's College London. The LMS Lecture will take place on 7 June - see details here.
A statement on behalf of the London Mathematical Society by its President, Professor Ulrike Tillmann
The Society is horrified and outraged by the invasion of Ukraine by Russian government forces. The devastation inflicted on Ukraine and its people is appalling and the Society condemns it in the strongest possible terms. The Society also deplores the repression and persecution of any Russians brave enough to speak out against their government. The Society stands in solidarity with everyone affected.
The Society extends its congratulations to US mathematician Dennis P. Sullivan, who yesterday was awarded the 2022 Abel Prize. Professor Sullivan is most well-known for his groundbreaking work on topology and dynamical systems, two fields in which ideas about geometric structure play a central role.
The Society is delighted that in today’s Spring Statement, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the definition of research and development (R&D) for tax reliefs will be expanded by clarifying that pure mathematics is a qualifying cost. This will support the growing volume of R&D underpinned by mathematical advances.