The deadline to send nominations for LMS Prizes in 2020 is 31st January. Send your nominations to prizes@lms.ac.uk. Details at https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/26092019-1222/lms-prizes-2020-call-nominations.
It is with regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Walter Hayman FRS on 1 January 2020.
Professor Hayman was a longstanding member of the LMS, having been elected to membership on 20 March 1947. He was awarded the LMS De Morgan Medal in 1995 and was also awarded the LMS Berwick Prize in 1955 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1964. He was an LMS Vice President from 1982-1984. Other major honours included his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like extend its warmest congratulations to its former Treasurer, Professor Nicholas Woodhouse who was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to mathematics.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has announced that the 40th General Conference of UNESCO has proclaimed that March 14 (pi day 3.14) will from now on be the International Day of Mathematics (IDM).
As March 14, 2020 is a Saturday, the international official launch will take place on Friday March 13, 2020. There will be two parallel international events: in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters, and at the Einstein Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Applications are currently being invited for the position of Gresham Professor of Geometry - ie the Mathematical Sciences. Gresham Professors must be able to 'communicate with a public audience who will not normally have specialist expertise in the subject, but who will be informed people with a thirst for increased knowledge'. The closing date for applications is 13 January 2020. More information about the position is available here.
Deadline: 20th December 2019
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in association with the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) are seeking applications for grants to support mathematics and its teaching in universities in Africa. Four mentoring partnerships are to be awarded. These will be for a duration of one year, with the possibility of extension for a further year.
Professor Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia) has been awarded the 2019 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. Professor Praeger received the Prize for contributions to group theory, permutation groups, combinatorics and the mathematics of symmetry. She received the Prize at a ceremony on October 16 at Parliament House in Canberra.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to extend its congratulations to Professor Praeger who became an Honorary Member of the Society in 2014.
Fiona Nixon, the LMS Executive Secretary, has decided to take early retirement and will be leaving the Society on April 11th next year. Fiona has been with the Society for almost 10 years and has played a major role in enabling the Society to carry out its aims. This includes overseeing the activities at De Morgan House and making sure that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
It is with great sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Elmer Rees. Professor Rees was elected to LMS membership on 18 April 1974. Over the years he served the Society in several capacities notably as Vice President (1994-1996) and as a member of LMS Council. Professor Rees was also the LMS-NZMS Forder Lecturer in 1995.
After much work and effort on the part of the organisers, especially Christiane Rousseau, Chair of the IDM Governing Board, a vote is to be taken at the 40th General Conference of UNESCO (November 12-27 2019) to proclaim the International Day of Mathematics on March 14th (pi day) every year.
Please do visit the website here. A media page will very soon be online with logos in different languages and material for announcing IDM. You are encouraged to you to use this material to spread the news in your community.