This event is being organised online by the Azat Miftakhov committee in solidarity with Azat Miftakhov, a graduate student from Moscow State University who has been detained by Russian state authorities for almost two and a half years.
The LMS is delighted to announce that it has recently become possible for US taxpayers to make tax-deductible donations to the LMS. Previously such an option has not been available, and this may have been an issue for people wishing to make donations in the past. There are about 175 LMS members living in the US and the arrangements also apply to US taxpayers living elsewhere.
For the first time the team representing the UK at the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) has brought home two gold medals. The team also won further silver and bronze medals, with each team member receiving a medal.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate three of its members – Professor Tara Brendle (University of Glasgow), Professor Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) and Professor Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt University) on being elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly to LMS Honorary Member László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) and Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) ‘for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics’. The London Mathematical Society congratulates both on receiving this prestigious honour.