The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is delighted to learn that Society member Sarah Hart has been appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry. The position is thought to be the oldest mathematical chair in Britain and Professor Hart is the first woman to be appointed in its 423-year history. Many distinguished mathematicians have held the position previously including Henry Briggs, Robert Hooke, Karl Pearson, Sir Roger Penrose, and John D Barrow.

The LMS UK-Lebanon Atiyah Fellowship scheme was set up in memory of Sir Michael Atiyah OM (1929-2019).  The LMS is delighted to announce that the first two fellowships, for the academic year  2020-21, have been awarded to Professor Mark Wildon, Royal Holloway, University of London and Professor Ahmad Sabra, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

The Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) has been set up in a new collaboration between the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) (and its knowledge exchange arm, the Newton Gateway to Mathematics), the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) and the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

It is with great sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) reports the death of John Horton Conway who was one of the most celebrated British mathematicians of the second half of the 20^th century. Having made substantial contributions to widely different areas of mathematics, Conway was elected to Honorary Membership of the Society in 2015, the 150^th Anniversary Year of the LMS.

The London Mathematical Society has issued the following advice relating to COVID-19 (Coronavirus):

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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2020 Abel Prize jointly to Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gregory Margulis, Yale University, ‘for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics’.

It is with sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) learned of the death of Freeman Dyson. Up until his death, Dyson was the longest-serving LMS Member, being elected to Membership in 1943 and becoming an Honorary Member in 2000.

Dyson was a brilliant mathematician and theoretical physicist, known for his highly important work in quantum electrodynamics, random matrix theory, and many other areas of mathematical physics.  He was distinguished and influential in many other areas of research as well.

The UNESCO international official launch planned for Friday, March 13, 2020 has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 epidemic. For the same reason, the Next Einstein Forum 2020 (March 10-13, 2020) in Nairobi, Kenya, that included the African official launch of the IDM, was postponed.

Update 17th March 2020: please note that, owing to the ongoing situation with COVID-19/Coronavirus, this event has been postponed. Any future updates regarding the event will be announced on the LMS and IMA website in due course.

Date: Thursday 23 April 2020. Registration will open at 6pm and the event will start at 6:30pm.

The International Science Council (ISC) Gender Gap in Science project has announced the publication of its final report A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences .

The three-year project (2017–2019) was funded by the International Science Council (ISC) and involved eleven scientific partner organisations. The main goal of the project was to investigate the gender gap in STEM disciplines from different angles, globally and across disciplines.