The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge) on receiving an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, ‘for services to academia and the COVID-19 response’.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Sir Roger Penrose on his award of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose 'for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity', the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy'.