Originally launched in 2015 as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Hirst Prize and Lectureship is now jointly awarded by the LMS and the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM). The prize is named after Thomas Archer Hirst, who was the fifth President of the LMS (1872–74).
The Society held its first ever virtual Annual General Meeting on Friday 20 November 2020. The meeting was moved online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and was well attended, with over 100 participants able to attend without travelling to central London. The Society was very grateful for technical and administrative support for the meeting from the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS).
The results of the 2020 LMS Elections for Council and Nominating Committee were announced at the Society’s Annual General Meeting on 20 November. The results are available here.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Dr Eugenie Hunsicker, Chair, LMS Committee for Women and Diversity in Mathematics on her appointment as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
This year’s LMS AGM will take place virtually on Friday 20 November. The AGM will be followed by the Naylor Lecture, The Mathematics of Today's Floating-Point Arithmetic, presented by Nicholas J. Higham (Manchester). The lecture is aimed at a general mathematical audience. All interested, whether LMS members or not, are most welcome to attend this event.
More information and how to register here.
The LMS Gradaute Student meeting will be held virtually on Monday 16 November 2020 and is intended as an introduction to the LMS Annual General Meeting on Friday 20 November 2020. All gradaute students (and indeed any other mathematicians) are welcome to attend. Speaker: Theo Mary (Sorbonne), Mixed Precision Arithmetic: Hardware, Algorithms and Analysis.