The London Mathematical Society welcomes both members and non-members to its AGM, which is a celebration of the mathematics that has been supported by the LMS during 2024-25.
Programme (All times GMT)
| 14:30 | Registration and refreshments |
| 15:00 |
Welcome and Society Business
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| 15:30 |
Supporting Lecture: Dr Laura Monk (University of Bristol) What does a typical hyperbolic surface look like? Hyperbolic surfaces are surfaces of constant curvature -1, studied for their rich algebraic, geometric and dynamical properties. They are not easy to visualise due to their negative curvature. The aim of this talk is to provide a description of the geometry of hyperbolic surfaces in the large scale limit, by estimating quantities such as their diameter, spectral gap and Cheeger constant. A modern probabilistic approach has led to multiple breakthroughs in recent years, emulating an extremely successful line of study of regular graphs and relying on the influential work of Fields medallist Maryam Mirzakhani. |
| 16:30 | Break |
| 16:55 | Handover of the LMS Presidency |
| 17:00 |
Presidential Address Professor Jens Marklof FRS (University of Bristol). Mathematical models of quantum chaos I will report on recent progress towards fundamental conjectures in quantum chaos, which assert that the statistics of quantum energy levels should be governed by a Poisson point process if the system is completely integrable (Berry & Tabor, 1977) or by random matrix theory if the underlying classical dynamics is “chaotic” (Bohigas, Giannoni & Schmit, 1984). In the case of the Laplacian on flat tori, the question reduces to a natural problem on the distribution of values at integers of a quadratic form, which in turn is intimately related to the classical Oppenheim conjecture. We will also discuss the Laplacian on a compact hyperbolic surface and review some recent evidence for the emergence of random matrix statistics in the limit of high genus. |
| 18:00 | Reception |
| 19:15 | LMS Annual Dinner |
Please note that the programme and timings are subject to change.
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