We are delighted to announce that the Councils of the IMA and LMS have awarded the 2017 David Crighton Medal to Professor I. David Abrahams, for his outstanding service to both mathematics and the mathematical community.

David developed the technically demanding Wiener-Hopf techniques for applications in real problems, and created a vibrant group working on waves in Manchester. He has received the Royal Society’s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and its Wolfson Research Merit Award.

It is with great sadness that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani at the age of 40. In 2014 Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive a Fields Medal in its nearly 80-year history. She received the award for her ‘outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces’. In essence, for her contributions to the fields of topology, geometry, and dynamical systems.

The slates for the 2017 LMS elections to Council and Nominating Commitee, as selected by Nominating Committee, are now available.

As in previous years, members are invited to make direct nominations for both Council and Nominating Committee.

The ballot will open in autumn 2017 and the results will be announced at the LMS Annual General Meeting in November.

See full details here.

The winners of the 2017 LMS Prizes were announced at the Society meeting in London on Friday 30th June 2017. The Society extends its congratulations to these winners.

PROFESSOR ALEX WILKIE FRS, of the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, is awarded the PÓLYA PRIZE for his profound contributions to model theory and to its connections with real analytic geometry.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) extends its warmest congratulations to LMS member Professor Alison Etheridge FRS, who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Professor Etheridge is Professor of Probability at the University of Oxford where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and a Fellowship at Magdalen College. She is also Associate Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. Professor Etheridge was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS on his award of the Royal Society Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. He receives the award for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem and joins a list of winners including Charles Darwin, Humphrey Davy and Albert Einstein. Sir Andrew was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2016 and was an LMS Junior Whitehead Prize winner in 1988. 

The Copley Medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize, and is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates LMS Honorary Member Claire Voisin, Professor and Chair in Algebraic Geometry, Collège de France, who is the joint winner of the 2017 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences. Professor Voisin shares the Prize with János Kollár, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University.

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to extend its warmest congratulations to LMS Members Professors Mark Gross (University of Cambridge) and Lawrence Paulson (Professor of Computational Logic, University of Cambridge) on being elected Fellows of the Royal Society. The LMS also extends its congratulations to Professors Subhash Khot (Courant Institute), Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia) and Andrew Woods (BP Institute Cambridge).

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2017 Abel Prize to Yves Meyer, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets".

The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Ole M. Sejersted, announced the winner at the Academy in Oslo on 21 March. Meyer will receive the Prize from His Majesty King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on 23 May.

Three mathematicians have won medals and awards at a competition in the House of Commons for the excellence of their mathematics research, walking away with a £3000, £2000 and £1000 prize for Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively.