The LMS is deeply concerned about the arrest in Turkey on 11 May 2019 of Tuna Altinel, a Turkish mathematician  working for many years in the Université Lyon 1 in France. Professor Altinel was one of the signatories in 2016 of a petition supported by more than 2000 scientists and intellectuals against military actions towards civilians, and took part in a legitimate public meeting in France in February 2019 on the same topic. 

Since 1982 the IMU has awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at each ICM  for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences.

In 2018, the IMU Executive Committee took the decision  to discontinue this prize because of historical issues arising from its name.

It was decided at the IMU General Assembly 2018  to set up a new prize with similar scope.  It will be called the  IMU Abacus Medal and will be awarded at each ICM, starting in 2022. The award will consist of a gold medal, a cash award of EUR 10,000, and a diploma.

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.