It is with great sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Stephen Hawking. In the history of the development of general relativity, just a few individuals stand out as having contributed in original, central and fundamental ways.
Dr Eugenie Hunsicker, Chair of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Women in Mathematics Committee and her filmmaker sister, Irene Linke, have produced a short film for International Women’s Day this year featuring cameos by women mathematicians from around the globe. The film was inspired by the work of the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and comprises 146 clips of 243 women mathematicians from 36 different countries speaking 31 different languages.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like extend its warmest congratulations to Sir Bernard Silverman FRS, Professor Christl Donnelly FRS and Howard Groves for the honours they received in the New Year Honours list.
Sir Bernard, ex-Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office receives a Knighthood for Public Service and Services to Science.
In a guest blog for the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), LMS Council and Research Officer, Katy Henderson, gives an overview of why we all need mathematics.
The 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Professor Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) and Professor James McKernan (University of California, San Diego). The Prize ceremony was held in Silicon Valley on 3rd December 2017. Each Breakthrough Prize award is $3 million, the largest individual monetary prize in science.
Thursday 15 March 2018 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reception at The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Mathematics, Metamaterials and Meteorites
The 2017 David Crighton Medal will be presented to Professor I. David Abrahams on Thursday 15 March 2018 at the Royal Society. Professor Abrahams will then give a talk, which will be followed by a reception.
The 2017 Prizes for Mathematics and Statistics have been awarded to Dr Anders Hansen, Dr Oscar Randal-Williams and Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb all of the University of Cambridge; Professor Dominic Vella (University of Oxford) and Dr Hendrik Weber (University of Warwick). The Society congratulates all the award winners, in particular LMS members Dr Oscar Randal-Williams, also a 2017 LMS Whitehead Prize winner and Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, the 2018 LMS Mary Cartwright Lecturer.
Professor Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal, will receive the inaugural Bertrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in recognition of her 'many contributions furthering human values and the common good through mathematics'.
The Louis Bachelier Prize is a biennial prize jointly awarded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Natixis Foundation for Quantitative Research and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). The winners are prominent personalities, widely recognized in the academic and professional worlds of quantitative finance and/or risk management.
Past LMS President Professor Dame Frances Kirwan FRS has been elected to the Savilian Professorship at the University of Oxford. Professor Kirwan is the first woman to hold the Professorship since it was founded in 1619.