The London Mathematical Society (LMS) extends its warmest congratulations to LMS member Professor Alison Etheridge FRS, who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Professor Etheridge is Professor of Probability at the University of Oxford where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and a Fellowship at Magdalen College. She is also Associate Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. Professor Etheridge was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS on his award of the Royal Society Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. He receives the award for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem and joins a list of winners including Charles Darwin, Humphrey Davy and Albert Einstein. Sir Andrew was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2016 and was an LMS Junior Whitehead Prize winner in 1988. 

The Copley Medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize, and is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates LMS Honorary Member Claire Voisin, Professor and Chair in Algebraic Geometry, Collège de France, who is the joint winner of the 2017 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences. Professor Voisin shares the Prize with János Kollár, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to extend its warmest congratulations to LMS Members Professors Mark Gross (University of Cambridge) and Lawrence Paulson (Professor of Computational Logic, University of Cambridge) on being elected Fellows of the Royal Society. The LMS also extends its congratulations to Professors Subhash Khot (Courant Institute), Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia) and Andrew Woods (BP Institute Cambridge).

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2017 Abel Prize to Yves Meyer, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets".

The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Ole M. Sejersted, announced the winner at the Academy in Oslo on 21 March. Meyer will receive the Prize from His Majesty King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on 23 May.

Three mathematicians have won medals and awards at a competition in the House of Commons for the excellence of their mathematics research, walking away with a £3000, £2000 and £1000 prize for Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively.

Professor Martin Hairer FRS, University of Warwick, has been awarded an honorary KBE. The award of Knight Commander, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire rewards ‘contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil Service’ and is given in an honorary capacity to foreign nationals.

The Institut d'Estudis Catalans will host the Abel in Barcelona event on Monday 16th January. The event will take place alongside the final meeting of the Abel committee, which will select the Abel Prize Laureate for 2017. There will be an afternoon of lectures from Louis Nirenberg, who shared the 2015 Abel Prize with John Nash, Professor Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) and Professor Ben Green (University of Oxford) aimed at a broad mathematical audience.

The 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship Awards Programme is now open for applications. Five outstanding female early-career scientists will be awarded a bursary of £15,000. The fellowship awards are open to female early-career researchers working in the field of life and physical sciences, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has won the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize, which celebrates individuals and organisations that have contributed most to the advancement of diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) within their communities. The prize will be presented to the LMS at a ceremony at the Royal Society’s annual diversity conference on 31st October 2016.