- LMS Hardy Lectureship
- Hardy Lectureship 2025
- Future Hardy Lectureship Tours
- Guidelines on the Hardy Lectureships
- Previous Hardy Lectureship Tours
- Travel/Caring Grants to attend Hardy Lectures
The LMS Hardy Lectureship is named after G.H. Hardy, former President of the Society and De Morgan Medallist. Originally awarded to a distinguished overseas mathematician in odd-numbered years.
The LMS Hardy Lecturer visits the UK for a period of about two weeks, and gives the Hardy Lecture at a Society meeting, normally held in London in July. The LMS Hardy Lecturer also gives at least six other lectures, on different topics, at other venues in the UK; the schedule is decided by the LMS Society, Lectures and Meetings Committee in consultation with the LMS Hardy Lecturer, and is designed to allow as many UK mathematicians as possible to benefit from the LMS Hardy Lecturer's presence in the UK.
We are pleased to announce the LMS Hardy Lecturer 2025 is Professor Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).
Dates confirmed for the Lectureship so far are as follows:
| Fri 20 June | 16:00 |
Aberdeen - Fraser Noble Buiding, University of Aberdeen 'Elements of ∞-Category Theory' |
| Mon 23 June | 16:00 |
Manchester - Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester 'Contractibility as uniqueness' |
| Tue 24 June | 16:00 |
Glasgow - Maths and Statistics Building, University of Glasgow 'From the 1-categorical Yoneda lemma to the ∞-categorical Yoneda lemma' |
| Wed 25 June | 18:00 |
Edinburgh - Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh 'Queer in math and queering math' |
| Fri 27 June | 10:15 |
Cardiff - School of Mathematics, Cardiff University 'Homotopy types as homotopy types' |
| Mon 30 June | 16:00 |
Cambridge - The Chapel at Churchill College 'Path induction and the indiscernibility of identicals' |
| Wed 2 July | 11:00 |
Birmingham - University House, University of Birmingham 'Prospects for formalizing the theory of weak infinite-dimensional categories' |
| Fri 4 July | 15:30 |
London - De Morgan House (Hardy Lecture) 'Could we teach ∞-category theory to undergraduates or to a computer?' |
| Mon 7 July | 16:00 |
Bristol - Fry Building, University of Bristol 'A conversation on professional norms in mathematics' |
If you have any questions regarding the Hardy Lectureship Tour 2025, please email lmsmeetings@lms.ac.uk.
The Call for Nominations for the Hardy Lectureship Tour 2027 will be open in September 2025 and the deadline for nominations will be 31 January 2026.
- 2023 Eva Miranda (UPC-Barcelona)
- 2020 Peter Sarnak (IAS, Princeton)
- 2018 Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley)
- 2016 Jacob Lurie (Harvard)
- 2015 Nalini Joshi (Sydney)
- 2014 Percy Deift (NYU)
- 2012 Etienne Ghys (Lyon)
- 2010 Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto)
- 2008 Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago and Hebrew University)
- 2006 Yu Manin (Northwestern)
- 2004 Terence Tao (UCLA)
- 2002 Alexander Its (Indiana)
- 2001 Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
- 1999 Dusa McDuff (SUNY at Stonybrook)
Travel/Caring Grants to attend the Hardy Lectures.
Travel/Caring grants of up to £50 to support attending the Hardy Lectures, which are at universities on the Hardy Lecture Tour, were available to mathematicians who are based at neighbouring universities to those universities and would require financial support.
For future Hardy Lecture Tours, if you require support, please complete the application form as soon as you can and at least 3 working days before the Hardy Lecture you wish to attend. Please note that there are limited funds available and so grants may be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have any queries, please email lmsmeetings@lms.ac.uk
For general enquiries about the Hardy Lectures, please contact lmsmeetings@lms.ac.uk