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.

Student transition from school-level mathematics to university-level mathematics, often referred to as the secondary-tertiary transition (STT) is an enduring, complicated and multi-faceted process.

The joint 55th meeting of the North British Mathematical Physics Seminar and Edinburgh Mathematical Physics seminar will take place at the International Centre for the M

The mathematician Simon Norton passed away suddenly on 14 February. Norton attended Eton College and while still at school showed his prodigious talent for mathematics by obtaining an external first-class degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of London. He also represented the United Kingdom with distinction at the International Mathematical Olympiad, three years in succession. Norton spent most of his career at Cambridge and was one of the authors of the ATLAS of Finite Groups along with John Conway, Robert Curtis, Richard Parker and Robert Wilson.

The LMS has learnt with great sadness of death of Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS on January 11th, 2019. Michael Atiyah was a brilliant mathematician and a towering figure who dominated the British and international mathematical landscape for over half a century.

It is with regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Bt, KBE, FRS. Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer was a renowned mathematician specialising in number theory, the advanced study of the relationships and properties of numbers.

The Prize for the best paper published in Compositio Mathematica in the three-year period 2014–2016 has been awarded to the paper 'Dense clusters of primes in subsets' by James Maynard (Compos. Math. 152 (2016) 1517–1554).  More information is can be found here.