The election opened on 12th October. Instructions on how to vote are available here.
1. Candidate Biographies and LMS Blog
Candidate biographies are listed in alphabetical order:
Candidate Biographies
LMS Election Blog
2. Election slates
The slates for the 2012 elections to Council and Nominating Committee are listed in the tables below.
2.1 Officer Roles
The following nominations for Officers of Council have been made in accordance with the Society's By-Laws. The list is alphabetical.
| Role | Nominee | Nominator |
|---|---|---|
| President | Graeme Segal | Nominating Committee |
| Vice-Presidents (2 Vacancies) | Ken Brown John Greenlees |
Nominating Committee |
| Treasurer | Robert Curtis | Nominating Committee |
| General Secretary (1 Vacancy) |
Stephen Huggett | Nominator: Angus Macintyre. Seconders: Peter Cameron, Peter Goddard, Richard P.W. Thomas |
| Malcolm MacCallum | Nominating Committee | |
| Publications Secretary | John D. S. Jones | Nominating Committee |
| Programme Secretary | Robert Wilson | Nominating Committee |
| Education Secretary (1 Vacancy) | Tony Gardiner Alice Rogers |
Nominating Committee |
2.2 Members-at-Large
The following nominations for Members-at-Large of Council have been made in accordance with the Society's By-Laws.
Six 2-year terms and one 1-year term are to be contested in the election. Five Members-at-Large who were elected for two years in 2011 have a year left to serve; they are: June Barrow-Green, Simon Donaldson, John Robert Hunton, Ari Laptev and Elizabeth Louise Mansfield.
The list is alphabetical.
| Role | Nominee | Nominator |
|---|---|---|
| Member-at-Large | Jacek Brodzki | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Francis Clarke | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | David M Evans | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Cathy Hobbs | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Andrey Lazarev | Nominator: Nicole Snashall. Seconders: Andrew Baker, Joseph Chuang, Michael Farber |
| Member-at-Large | James Montaldi | Nominator: David Mond. Seconders: Roger Bryant, Kirill MacKenzie, Theodore Voronov |
| Member-at-Large | Christopher Mulvey | Nominator: Andrew Glass. Seconders: John Coates, Peter Goddard, Christopher Lance |
| Member-at-Large | Sofia Olhede | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | John Parker | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Beatrice Pelloni | Nominator: John Toland. Seconders: Simon Chandler-Wilde, Roger Grimshaw, Marco Marletta |
| Member-at-Large | Colva Roney-Dougal | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Alastair Rucklidge | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Michael Singer | Nominator: Ken Brown. Seconders: Martin Hyland, John Jones & Ulrike Tillmann. |
| Member-at-Large | Ulrike Tillmann | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Alexander Veselov | Nominating Committee |
| Member-at-Large | Jonathan Woolf | Nominating Committee |
2.3 Nominating Committee
The following nominations for the Nominating Committee have been made by the Nominating Committee in accordance with the Society's By-Laws:
Two 3-year terms and one 1-year term are to be contested in the election.
The list is alphabetical.
| Role | Nominee | Nominator |
|---|---|---|
| Nominating C'ttee | Keith Ball | Nominating Committee |
| Nominating C'ttee | Gavin Brown | Nominating Committee |
| Nominating C'ttee | Russell Davies | Nominating Committee |
| Nominating C'ttee | Frank Neumann | Nominating Committee |
| Nominating C'ttee | Shaun Stevens | Nominating Committee |
| Nominating C'ttee | David Tranah | Nominating Committee |
The continuing members of the Nominating Committee are:
Penny Davies (will take over as Chair from the 2012 AGM), Frances Kirwan, Michael Prest, Andrew Stuart. In addition, Council will appoint a representative to the Committee.
The current Chair of Nominating Committee, Caroline Series, will step down from the Committee at the 2012 AGM when her term of office expires.
Nominations for election closed on 1st September 2012.
3. Election System
LMS elections are conducted using Meek Method STV. A full description of the System is available:
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First Posted: 7th August 2012