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.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has announced the appointment of a new Executive Secretary. Caroline Wallace will take up her new post as LMS Executive Secretary on 6 April 2020.
The government has announced additional funding for the Mathematical Sciences of up to £300 million, which will more than double the current funding for the Mathematical Sciences delivered by EPSRC.
It includes:
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Professor Sir Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London) who has been awarded the Wolf Prize for Mathematics, jointly with Professor Yakos Eliashberg (Stanford University). Sir Simon receives the award for his contributions to differential geometry and topology.
The Wolf Foundation inaugurated the Wolf Prize in 1978, awarding the Prize to academics who have made ‘significant breakthroughs and extraordinary achievements in agriculture, mathematics, medicine, physics, chemistry and the arts’.
The deadline to send nominations for LMS Prizes in 2020 is 31st January. Send your nominations to prizes@lms.ac.uk. Details at https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/26092019-1222/lms-prizes-2020-call-nominations.