The 2018 LMS Prize winners were announced at the Society Meeting on Friday 29 June 2018. The LMS extends its congratulations to this year’s prize winners and for their continued contributions to mathematics.
PROFESSOR KAREN VOGTMANN of Warwick University is awarded the POLYA PRIZE for her profound and pioneering work in Geometric Group Theory, particularly the study of automorphism groups of free groups.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is pleased to announce Jonathan Keating FRS, as President-Designate. Professor Keating has been the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bristol since 2012 and Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research since 2015. Professor Keating will take over from the current President, Professor Caroline Series FRS, in November 2019. Professor Keating is known for his contributions to random matrix theory and quantum chaos, and their connections with number theory.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Professor Peter Giblin on receiving an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Peter became an LMS member over 50 years ago in 1965 when he was a PhD student at King’s College London. He was a member of LMS Nominating Committee from 2006-9, the last two years as Chair, a Holgate Session Leader 2015-18 and gave an LMS Popular Lecture in 1989.
The Bond Review on Knowledge Exchange was launched on 26th April. It contains major recommendations including the establishment of an Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and suggests various mechanisms for the development of suitably skilled mathematicians and for strengthening the national infrastructure for engagement between mathematicians and potential users.
Funded by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and supported by many international scientific bodies including the IMU, the Gender Gap in Science Project is collecting data to develop a broader picture of the status of mathematicians and scientists across the world. The results will provide data about the situation of scientists and mathematicians worldwide, as well as focused information about women in these fields. The data will help inform interventions by ICSU and member unions to increase participation, especially for women.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Professor Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin) on his award of the 2018 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences.
The Royal Society has released details of its newly-appointed Fellows, among whom were Professor Alexander Dawid (University of Cambridge), Professor Nancy Reid (University of Toronto), Professor Geordie Williamson (University of Sydney) and Professor Daniel Wise (McGill University) Other elected Fellows included Professor Peter O’Hearn (University College London), and Israeli cryptographer Professor Adi Shamir (The Wiezmann Institute of Science) who was elected a Foreign Member.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) immediate past President, Professor Simon Tavaré FRS, has been elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. Another notable mathematician to receive this honour is Professor Gerd Faltings ForMemRS, Director, Max Planck Institute, Bonn. Professors Tavaré and Faltings were among 21 new Foreign Associates who were recognised for their ‘distinguished and continuing achievements in original research’.
The LMS notes the current crisis in the Higher Education (HE) sector caused by the dispute over proposed changes to the USS pension scheme. The Society wishes to express its deep concern over the planned major downgrades to pensions of academic and related staff, including many members and LMS employees. The Society is concerned about the negative impact on the attractiveness of academic careers in the UK and in particular the retention of the best early career mathematicians.