Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meeting & Hirst Lectures


LMS Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meeting & Hirst Lecture

Owing to changes in the Society's programme of activities, from 2023-24 onwards, the Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meetings are now combined with the Hirst Lecture so that the biennial LMS Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meeting & Hirst Lecture is held in even-numbered years. The Hirst Lecture is given by the Hirst Prize-winner and the Hirst Prize is awarded in odd-numbered years with the Hirst Lecture given in the following even-numbered years.


History

Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meetings were one-day events of Survey Lectures for a general mathematical audience, which may be attached to either meetings or symposia on specialist topics.

The events were formerly named Spitalfields Days and these meetings are in honour of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society, a precursor of the London Mathematical Society, which flourished from 1717 to 1845. 

The Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the Mathematics Research Centre in Warwick, the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, and, from time to time, other Mathematics Departments, hold meetings or symposia on specialist topics, which are attended by eminent mathematicians from overseas. The Society thought that it was important for recent developments in these specialist topics to be made known to the general mathematical community, and, in particular, to research students. It therefore provided funds to the organisers of these meetings so that they could provide a day of survey lectures, accessible to a general mathematical audience.


Previous Spitalfields Days

Date
Location
Topic
Speakers
14 May 2021 Online, hosted by the ICMS LMS Spitalfields History of Mathematics Meeting: Educational Times Digital Archive Launch, held in partnership with UCL Special Collections

 Tony Rawlins (Brunel)

 Norman Biggs (LSE)

 Sloan Despeaux (Western Carolina University)

29 May 2015
 York
Pekka Lahti (Turku, Finland)
Quantum Incompatibility
 
Reinhard Werner (Hannover, Germany)
Measurement Uncertainty Relations
 
Madalin Guta (Nottingham)
Spectral Thresholding Quantum Tomography for Low Rank States
 
Paul Busch (York)
Quantum Measurement Uncertainty – A Simple Demonstration
 23 July 2014 
 INI, Cambridge
Professor Mark Groves (Loughborough, Saarland)
 
Professor Guido Schneider (Stuttgart)
 
Professor Steve Shkoller (Oxford)
 
Dr Eugene Varvaruca (Reading)
 
9 January 2012
INI, Cambridge
Dr George Barmpalias
Professor Anuj Dawar
Professor Nigel Smart
Professor Hugh Woodin
5 May 2011
INI, Cambridge
Max Lieblich
Alina Marian
Yukinobu Toda
Anna Wienhard
17 September 2010
Edinburgh
Geometry & Algebra
Sir Michael Atiyah
Friedrich Hirzebruch
17 May 2010
Cardiff
Noncommutative Geometry and Physics
Terry Gannon
Nigel Higson
30 October 2009
INI, Cambridge
Tobias Berger
Fred Diamond
Kevin Buzzard
Jayanta Manoharmayum
13 May 2009
INI Cambridge
Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Programme
John Coates
Kevin Buzzard
Michael Rapoport
Gerard Laumon

Information on earlier events is available on request.