The results of the 2020 LMS Elections for Council and Nominating Committee were announced at the Society’s Annual General Meeting on 20 November. The results are available here.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Dr Eugenie Hunsicker, Chair, LMS Committee for Women and Diversity in Mathematics on her appointment as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
This year’s LMS AGM will take place virtually on Friday 20 November. The AGM will be followed by the Naylor Lecture, The Mathematics of Today's Floating-Point Arithmetic, presented by Nicholas J. Higham (Manchester). The lecture is aimed at a general mathematical audience. All interested, whether LMS members or not, are most welcome to attend this event.
More information and how to register here.
The LMS Gradaute Student meeting will be held virtually on Monday 16 November 2020 and is intended as an introduction to the LMS Annual General Meeting on Friday 20 November 2020. All gradaute students (and indeed any other mathematicians) are welcome to attend. Speaker: Theo Mary (Sorbonne), Mixed Precision Arithmetic: Hardware, Algorithms and Analysis.
The LMS Computer Science Colloquium is an annual day of themed talks on a topical issue at the interface of mathematics and computer science, organised by the LMS Computer Science Committee. The event is aimed at PhD students and post-docs, although others are welcome to attend.
The David Crighton Medal was established by the Councils of the LMS and IMA in 2002 in order to pay tribute to the memory of Professor David George Crighton FRS. The silver gilt medal will be awarded to an eminent mathematician for services both to mathematics and to the mathematical community, who is normally resident in the mathematical community represented by the two organisations on the 1st January of the year of the award.