The LMS, Royal Statistical Society, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and Edinburgh Mathematical Society have written to the chief executive of UKRI to urge that the organisation does more to meet its equality, diversity and inclusion objectives.

In the letter to Dame Ottoline Leyser, Committee for Women in Diversity Chair Professor Sara Lombardo, along with her co-signatories, point out that the draft UKRI EDI strategy is currently lacking in detail on how it will reach its EDI objectives. It gives ten recommended actions.

The second Azat Miftakhov Days will take place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 July, 2022, in solidarity with Azat Miftakhov, a mathematics graduate student from the Moscow State University who has been arbitrarily detained by Russian state authorities since February 2019.

Registration deadline: 31 May 2022

This year's British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC73), which is supported by the LMS, will take place on 6-9 June 2022, and will be hosted by King's College London. The LMS Lecture will take place on 7 June - see details here.

A statement on behalf of the London Mathematical Society by its President, Professor Ulrike Tillmann

The Society is horrified and outraged by the invasion of Ukraine by Russian government forces. The devastation inflicted on Ukraine and its people is appalling and the Society condemns it in the strongest possible terms. The Society also deplores the repression and persecution of any Russians brave enough to speak out against their government. The Society stands in solidarity with everyone affected.

The Society extends its congratulations to US mathematician Dennis P. Sullivan, who yesterday was awarded the 2022 Abel Prize. Professor Sullivan is most well-known for his groundbreaking work on topology and dynamical systems, two fields in which ideas about geometric structure play a central role.