A Memorial Service will be held for Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, in the Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge on Monday 1 July 2019 at 2.00 pm. Anyone wishing to attend is asked to register here
The Council for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) has recently announced that further follow up to the Bond Review on Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences will be undertaken by a Strategic Advisory Group chaired by Dr Claire Craig and an Implementation Group chaired by Sir Bernard Silverman. The CMS Societies have nominated names for membership of these two groups, which expect to start work shortly.
The Royal Society has released details of its newly-appointed Fellows, among whom were LMS member Professor Richard Jozsa (University of Cambridge), Professor Caucher Birkar (University of Cambridge), Professor Roy Kerr (University of Canterbury), Professor Christopher Hacon (University of Utah), Professor Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University), Professor Akshay Venkatesh (Institute of Advanced Studies) and Professor Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge).
Professor Caroline Series FRS is to receive an Honorary Degree from Duke University. She is one of four recipients who will be honoured on May 12.
This year’s Abel Prize has been awarded to the US mathematician Professor Karen Uhlenbeck, Princeton University, for her ‘pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics ‘fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics’. She is the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour.
Three Mathematical Scientists won medals and awards at the 2019 STEM for Britain competition in the House of Commons on Wednesday 13 March. Each received recognition for the excellence of their Mathematical Science research, walking away with a £2000, £1250 and £750 prize for Gold, Silver (both sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute), and Bronze (sponsored by the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research). This is the sixth year that the Mathematical Sciences has taken part in the competition
The next Transpennine Topology Triangle (TTT) meeting on Friday 8 March 2019 (University of Leicester), and supported by the LMS, will be dedicated to Sir Michael Atiyah's influence on algebraic topology and his legacy as a Chancellor of the University of Leicester from 1995-2005. More information is available here
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate member Dr Heather Harrington (University of Oxford) who has been awarded the 2019 Adams Prize jointly with Dr Luitgard Veraart (LSE). The subject of the prize was the Mathematics of Networks. Dr Harrington was also a 2018 LMS Whitehead Prize winner.
Student transition from school-level mathematics to university-level mathematics, often referred to as the secondary-tertiary transition (STT) is an enduring, complicated and multi-faceted process.
The joint 55th meeting of the North British Mathematical Physics Seminar and Edinburgh Mathematical Physics seminar will take place at the International Centre for the Mathemtical