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 London Mathematical Society (LMS) is pleased to announce the award of the LMS Emmy Noether Fellowships to Dr Milena Hering, University of Edinburgh, Dr Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has issued a call for nominations of candidates for the Abel Prize 2021.
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.
The 2020 Louis Bachelier Prize is awarded to Professor Mathieu Rosenbaum (École Polytechnique, Paris).
The 2020 LMS Prize winners were announced at the Society Meeting on Friday 26 June 2020. The LMS extends its congratulations to this year’s prize winners and for their continued contributions to mathematics.
Professor Martin Liebeck of Imperial College London is awarded the Pólya Prize for his profound and prodigious contributions to group theory, particularly the subgroup structure of simple groups and probabilistic group theory. See the full citation here.
The London Mathematical Society has elected the following people to Honorary Membership of the Society in 2020:
Professor Maryna Viazovska, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Lauren Williams, Harvard University and The Radcliffe Institute, USA
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The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is pleased to announce Ulrike Tillmann FRS, Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford as President Designate. Professor Tillmann would take over from the current President, Professor Jon Keating FRS, in November 2021. Professor Tillmann is known for her leading contributions to algebraic topology and for her many contributions to the LMS and the broader mathematical community.
This conference has been postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will now take place on Tuesday-Thursday 21-23 September 2021. Registration is expected to open in early 2021. For more details are available on the conference website here.