Thanks to the continued generosity of the Liber Foundation, the London Mathematical Society is delighted to announce that it will again be able to award a number of Emmy Noether Fellowships in 2022, up to a total of £25,000.

The LMS is seeking someone with broad mathematical interests, who is passionate about communicating mathematics and supporting the Society, to become Editor-in-Chief of the LMS Newsletter, starting in May 2021. 

If you are interested there is more information about the position and application details here. 

The London Mathematical Society has been informed that the University of Leicester is consulting over a proposal to reduce the size of its Pure Mathematics Group to be teaching only, in order to “meet the rising market demand of artificial intelligence, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science”. The Society strongly opposes this proposal and believes it to be seriously flawed for the following reasons.

The London Mathematical Society is deeply concerned about the situation of Azat Miftakhov, an early-career mathematician from Moscow, Russia.

The London Mathematical Society is pleased to announce its Call for Proposals for the LMS-Bath Mathematical Symposia to be held at the University of Bath in 2022. Subject to confirmed funding, it is hoped that two LMS-Bath Mathematical Symposia can be supported in 2022.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is delighted to learn that Professor Ulrike Tillmann FRS, LMS President-Designate, has been appointed as the next Director of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI). Professor Tillmann will become the seventh Director since the INI opened in 1992, following in the footsteps of Sir Michael Atiyah, Professor Keith Moffatt, Sir John Kingman, Sir David Wallace, Professor John Toland and current Director Professor David Abrahams. Her five-year appointment begins on 1 October 2021.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Honorary Member Professor Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia) on being made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List for ‘eminent service to mathematics and to tertiary education, as a leading academic and researcher, to international organisations, and as a champion of women in STEM careers’.