The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Sir Roger Penrose on his award of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose 'for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity', the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy'.

It is with deep regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones on 6^th September.

Sir Vaughan was a highly distinguished mathematician.  He received the Fields Medal in Kyoto Japan in 1990 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year. In 2002 he was appointed Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mathematics and in that same year became an Honorary Member of the LMS.  In 2018 he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.  

Applications for the 2020-21 UK-Lebanon Fellowships are now open. The scheme, set up in 2019 in memory of Sir Michael Atiyah, provides for Fellows to travel in either direction between Lebanon and the UK. The closing date is October 31st 2020. More details are available here.