The London Mathematical Society has elected the following people to Honorary Membership of the Society in 2021:

Professor Bảo Châu Ngô, University of Chicago, USA, and Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics

Professor Laure Saint-Raymond, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), France

Professor Peter Sarnak, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

Professor Ya-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China

The 2021 LMS Prize winners were announced at the Society Meeting on Friday 2 July 2021. The LMS extends its congratulations to this year’s prize winners and for their continued contributions to mathematics.

The London Mathematical Society and British Society for the History of Mathematics are delighted to announce that the 2021 Hirst Prize and Lectureship is awarded to Professor Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; CNRS), in recognition of her outstanding and innovative work in the history of mathematics. This marks the first year that the Hirst Prize and Lectureship is jointly awarded by the LMS and BSHM.

We are pleased to announce that registration for the conference on the Unity of Mathematics in memory of Sir Michael Atiyah is now open. It will be a hybrid meeting based in the Isaac Newton Institute from Tuesday 21-Thursday 23 September 2021. Funding is available to assist participation, especially for early career researchers.

For its help with the design of the new £50 bank note featuring Alan Turing, the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has been presented with a low serial number (AA01 001936) version by the Bank of England. The presentation took place on 23 June, the anniversary of Turing’s birth, and the day that the new £50 bank note went into circulation.

The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate LMS Council Member Professor Minhyong Kim on being appointed Director of the ICMS and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at both Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. Professor Kim is the first full-time director of the ICMS and the first joint professor in the Maxwell Institute and will take up the post in September 2021.  

More details are available on the ICMS website

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has issued a call for nominations of candidates for the Abel Prize 2022.

The Abel Prize, which amounts to NOK 7.5 million, recognises outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics and applications of mathematics in the sciences.