The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS), with the support of Professor Andrew Noyes, Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK, is consulting on proposals for a National Academy and a Connected Centres Network. Full details are available on the CMS website here. We strongly encourage members to submit individual responses to this consultation.
The results of the 2021 LMS Elections to Council and Nominating Committee were announced at the Annual General Meeting on 12 November 2021 and are listed here.
Deadline for nominations: 31 January 2022 (11:59pm)
The Louis Bachelier Prize is a biennial prize jointly awarded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Natixis Foundation for Quantitative Research and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). The winners are prominent personalities, widely recognized in the academic and professional worlds of quantitative finance and/or risk management.
The Society is delighted to announce that it will be providing financial support for the inaugural Namibian Olympiad in Mathematics. Current LMS-Mentoring African Research in Mathematics (MARM) partner, Professor Letterio Gatto (Politecnico di Torino) has been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Namibia (UNAM) with the goal of obtaining support for the Olympiad.
In an effort to streamline and simplify the procedure to assess LMS-HIMR Undergraduate Research Bursary (URB) applications, the LMS Early Career Research Committee intends to create the LMS Advisory Board for Undergraduate Research Bursaries of up to 10 people to look at the applications. This board should cover the breadth of mathematics. Its membership will be known to the applicants.
Kovalevskaya grants support early career mathematicians to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2022) to be held on 6-14 July 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia. These grants provide registration fee waiver, accommodation for the duration of the Congress, welcome reception, gala dinner, lunches, local transportation and the cultural programme.