Professor Martin Hairer FRS, University of Warwick, has been awarded an honorary KBE. The award of Knight Commander, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire rewards ‘contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil Service’ and is given in an honorary capacity to foreign nationals.
The Institut d'Estudis Catalans will host the Abel in Barcelona event on Monday 16th January. The event will take place alongside the final meeting of the Abel committee, which will select the Abel Prize Laureate for 2017. There will be an afternoon of lectures from Louis Nirenberg, who shared the 2015 Abel Prize with John Nash, Professor Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) and Professor Ben Green (University of Oxford) aimed at a broad mathematical audience.
The 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowship Awards Programme is now open for applications. Five outstanding female early-career scientists will be awarded a bursary of £15,000. The fellowship awards are open to female early-career researchers working in the field of life and physical sciences, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has won the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize, which celebrates individuals and organisations that have contributed most to the advancement of diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) within their communities. The prize will be presented to the LMS at a ceremony at the Royal Society’s annual diversity conference on 31st October 2016.
Following the Brexit vote, the LMS would like to express its support and solidarity with the 31% of the UK mathematical academic community from other EU states. We would like to reassure our EU friends and colleagues, wherever they are based, that we are keen to maintain our close mathematical and professional relationships with the rest of Europe, however the Brexit process proceeds.
On Tuesday 11 October 2016 at Bletchley Park, the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (CSC) will launch an initiative to celebrate women in maths and computing. As a new branch of the existing Suffrage Science scheme it is hoped that the initiative will encourage women into science, and to reach senior leadership roles.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Honorary Member Claire Voisin, Professor at Collège de France, Paris, on her award of the 2016 CNRS Gold Medal; France’s highest scientific distinction. Professor Voisin is a specialist in the field of algebraic geometry. Since it was created in 1954, the CNRS Gold Medal is awarded annually to scientific figures who have made an exceptional contribution to ‘the innovation and influence of French research’. Professor Voisin is only the fourth woman, and first female mathematician, to receive the honour.
Mathematics continues to be the top A-level subject in spite of a decrease in the number of A-level Mathematics entries across the UK. While the number of students sitting the exam is down by 0.6% on last year to 92,163, the percentage of the total A-level cohort represented by mathematics has risen slightly from 10.9% to 11%.
Figures released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications also show that A-level Further Mathematics has continued to rise in popularity, with entries increasing by 1.8% (to 15,257).
London Mathematical Society (LMS) Honorary Member, Ingrid Daubechies, professor of mathematics and electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, US, has received a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) congratulates Professor Sir Timothy Gowers FRS on his award of the the Royal Society Sylvester Medal. The medal is awarded 'for the encouragement of mathematical research'.