The mathematician Simon Norton passed away suddenly on 14 February. Norton attended Eton College and while still at school showed his prodigious talent for mathematics by obtaining an external first-class degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of London. He also represented the United Kingdom with distinction at the International Mathematical Olympiad, three years in succession. Norton spent most of his career at Cambridge and was one of the authors of the ATLAS of Finite Groups along with John Conway, Robert Curtis, Richard Parker and Robert Wilson.

The LMS has learnt with great sadness of death of Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS on January 11th, 2019. Michael Atiyah was a brilliant mathematician and a towering figure who dominated the British and international mathematical landscape for over half a century.

It is with regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Bt, KBE, FRS. Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was a renowned mathematician specialising in number theory, the advanced study of the relationships and properties of numbers.

The Prize for the best paper published in Compositio Mathematica in the three-year period 2014–2016 has been awarded to the paper 'Dense clusters of primes in subsets' by James Maynard (Compos. Math. 152 (2016) 1517–1554).  More information is can be found here.

The LMS deplores the recent arrest of Professor Betül Tanbay of  Boğaziçi University, Istanbul on spurious and absurd charges, but is relieved to have had news of her speedy and safe release. Professor Tanbay is an active and widely respected member of the international mathematical community, a former President of the Turkish Mathematical Society and a Vice-Chair Elect of the European Mathematical Society.

Tuesday 5th March, 5:30pm
The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

The 2018 Christopher Zeeman Medal presentation and lecture will be held at from 5:30pm on Tuesday 5th March 2019 at the Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG.

The medal will be presented to Dr Hannah Fry, who will then give a lecture. A reception will be held after the lecture.

The David Crighton Medal was established by the Councils of the IMA and LMS in 2002 in order to pay tribute to the memory of Professor David George Crighton FRS.  The silver gilt medal will be awarded to an eminent mathematician for services both to mathematics and to the mathematical community, who is normally resident in the mathematical community represented by the two organisations on the 1st January of the year of the award.

The 2018 SASTRA-Ramanujan Prize will be jointly awarded to Professors Yifeng Liu (Yale University, USA) and Jack Thorne (Cambridge University, UK). The award recognises outstanding contributions 

The 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Vincent Lafforgue – CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France) and Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes, for ‘ground breaking contributions to several areas of mathematics, in particular to the Langlands program in the function field case’.

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is leading the project to have UNESCO proclaim March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics (IDM). If approved by UNESCO the first celebration of the IDM is expected to be on March 14, 2020. More information is available here