The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like extend its warmest congratulations to LMS members Professor Ken Brown, Professor Peter Donnelly and Peter Ransom on the honours they received in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Others to be honoured include mathematicians Professor Duncan Lawson and Dr Diane Crann, and statistician Professor Sylvia Richardson.

The LMS is currently seeking someone to take over the role of Editor-in-Chief when the current Editor-in-Chief stands down at the end of the year.  The Editor-in-Chief is responsible to the Council of the LMS for chairing the Newsletter Editorial Board.

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.