You may have noticed that our website home page has changed a bit recently. We’ve kept Dr Nicholas Schmitt’s beautiful ‘twisted pseudospheres’ image, but we’ve updated the layout of the page to make it easier to use and less cluttered. In particular, we hope that the new design allows users to navigate quickly to the content they need, such as guidance on how to apply for a grant or submit a paper. We’re still working on a couple of further refinements, like making the Society’s logo appear as sharply as possible on the page and improving how the page appears on mobile phones.

Thanks to a generous donation from Dr Tony Hill, the LMS has started work on a new venture to support the provision of online tutoring for A-level Mathematics students who come from backgrounds that are under-represented in the mathematics community. 

The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate LMS members Professor Bryan Birch FRS (University of Oxford) and Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge) on receiving prestigious Royal Society awards.

We are delighted to announce that the IMA-LMS 2020 Christopher Zeeman Medal has been awarded by the Councils of both societies to Matt Parker. The Christopher Zeeman Medal is the UK award dedicated to recognising excellence in the communication of mathematics.  The following citation describes Matt’s exceptional work in this field.

There are few people in history who have done more to improve the public perception of the subject, and few alive who have a wider reach or who have done more to support other mathematics communicators.

Date: Thursday 15th October 2020, 17:30
Location: Natixis Head Office, 30 avenue Pierre Mendès-France, 75013 Paris, France

The ceremony will be followed by a cocktail reception.

The Louis Bachelier Prize is a biennial prize jointly awarded by the London Mathematical Society, the Natixis Foundation for Research and Innovation and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles. The winners are prominent personalities, widely recognised in the academic and professional worlds of quantitative finance and/or risk management.