Grants

We administer the grant schemes 1 to 5 & 8 (including those for INI and ICMS Satellite Meetings, which come under scheme 1). Here is an overview of the five years ending August 2005:

Scheme 1: conference grants
Amount awarded £509,328
Number of awards 214

Scheme 2: visitors to the UK who give lectures in at least three separate institutions
Amount awarded £145,108
Number of awards 163

Scheme 3: support for joint research groups of mathematicians, working in at least three different locations in the UK
Amount awarded £116,520
Number of awards 116

Scheme 4: Research in Pairs
Amount awarded £75,661
Number of awards 168

Scheme 5: international short visits, especially to or from poorer countries
Amount awarded £167,725
Number of awards 125

Scheme 6: connectivity grants for potential new collaborations between mathematicians and non-mathematicians (now discontinued)
Amount awarded £1,905
Number of awards 4

Totals for schemes 1 to 6
Amount awarded £1,016,247
Number of awards 790

Society Meetings

Hardy Lecturers or Fellows
We are responsible for agreeing their itinerary. Recent Lecturers include:

• 1999 Dusa McDuff (Stonybrook)
• 2001 Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
• 2002 Alexander Its (Indiana)
• 2004 Terence Tao (UCLA)
• 2006 Yuri Manin (Steklov and Max Planck)

International

Invited Lectures
We invite proposals for the Invited Lectures, and then choose one. Here are the recent ones:

• Don Zagier (Max Plank Institute, Bonn, Germany) Aspects of SL(2,Z): Binary Quadratic Forms and Modular Forms Exeter, April 1998
• Alexander Mielke (Hanover, Germany) Reduction Methods for Differential Equations Bath, April 1999
• Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) The Geometry of Isomonodromic Deformations Oxford, March 2000
• Tom Goodwillie (Brown University, USA) Calculus of Functors Aberdeen, June 2001
• Pierre van Moerbeke (Brandeis University) Random Matrices, Random Permuations and Integrable Lattices Leeds, June 2002
• Masatoshi Fukushima (Kansai University, Japan) Dirichlet Forms and Related Stochastic Analysis Swansea, August 2003
• Mike Davis (Ohio State University) Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups Southampton, July 2004.
• In 2006 Michael Singer (North Carolina State University) will lecture on Galois Theory of Linear Differential and Difference Equations in Edinburgh in July/August.

Further details on the scheme are available here.

Young British and Russian Mathematicians
We run the young British and Russian mathematicians exchange scheme. This was agreed with the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2005, and is a development of our former young Russian mathematicians visitor scheme.

Each year, under the new scheme, up to three young Russian mathematicians will spend a few weeks in Britain giving a series of survey lectures on the work of their Russian seminar, and up to three young British mathematicians will spend a few weeks in Russia giving a series of survey lectures on the work of their school. The LMS will meet the costs of Russian visitors and the travel costs of UK mathematicians, while the host institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences will meet the latter's local expenses.

Support for Mathematics in Africa
For the last two years we have awarded £7500 to the African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in the form of travel bursaries for postgraduate students from all over Africa.

We have also made grants to the African Mathematics Millenium Science Initiative to support conferences held within their network.

Either of the above, or Scheme 5, may be used to amplify or complement the effects of the Nuffield Scheme.