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.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Professor Dame Frances Kirwan on her recent award of the 2021 Royal Society Sylvester Medal.

Over the last 18 months university departments of mathematical sciences have needed to substantially adapt their learning, teaching, assessment and support practices to respond to the challenges of delivering programmes of study during the Covid-19 pandemic. As learned societies with responsibility for championing the mathematical sciences and supporting those colleagues working within them, we have noted that the transition to online assessment has posed particular challenges.