How to join the London Mathematical Society
To apply for membership, candidates should complete and return the application form.
Applications will be acknowledged by email.
Please note the following when applying:
- As a learned society, the Society requires candidates for membership to be proposed and seconded by members (see Section B of the form). If a candidate is attached to a university in the United Kingdom, however, it is sufficient for the candidate to be proposed by the head of a mathematics or mathematical science department (if a member) or local Society representative; the proposal can then be seconded by an Officer of the Society. An applicant who has difficulty in finding a proposer or seconder should contact membership@lms.ac.uk
- Candidates applying under a Reciprocity agreement do not need a proposer or seconder, but need to state which Reciprocity Society they are a member of (Section A (ii)).
- Election to membership takes place at the next Council Meeting after the receipt of the application, subject to confirmation by a meeting of the Society. In practice, this means that elections to membership happen at most five times year and there may be a delay between receipt of an application and election to membership.
- Successful candidates are informed by letter and are notified of current subscription rates and asked to which, if any, periodicals they would like to subscribe. That form must be completed and returned with the appropriate payment within six months of the date of election. Members with United Kingdom bank accounts are encouraged to pay by direct debit.
- On payment of their first subscription they are supplied with a copy of the Charter, Statutes and By-Laws of the Society, a copy of the Handbook and List of Members and placed on the mailing list for the Newsletter (with the option of printed copy, email copy or both being available).
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