The Society is pleased to report that in 2016-17, awards totalling £243,742 were made in the support of mathematics conferences.
£192,880 was awarded to the organisers of mathematical conferences held in the United Kingdom, and were used to cover the expenses of principal speakers, and to provide support for UK-based research students and for participants from Scheme 5 countries. A total of £13,050 was awarded to support meetings to celebrate new appointments in mathematical departments. Postgraduate Research Conferences were awarded a total of £37,742 to support speakers and participants at conferences organised and run by postgraduate students.
Applicants wishing to apply for funding for a conference will find further details on the Society’s website at www.lms.ac.uk/content/research-grants
Conference Grants – Scheme 1
Conference Title |
Dates, Place |
Applicant |
Grant Award |
Group St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham |
05 - 14 August 2017, Birmingham |
C. Parker |
£5,000.00 |
Gregynog Welsh Mathematics Colloquium 2017 |
22 - 24 May 2017, Gregynog Hall, Powys |
M. Lettington |
£1,909.00 |
The 8th Workshop on Algebraic, Topological and Complexity Aspects of Graph Covers (ATCAGC 2017) |
09 - 13 January 2017, Durham |
D. Paulusma |
£3,265.00 |
Young Geometric Group Theory Meeting |
20 - 24 March 2017, Oxford |
A. Kar |
£5,000.00 |
Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Ergodicity |
05 - 09 December 2016, Loughborough |
C. Feng |
£2,000.00 |
One-Day Meeting in Combinatorics |
24 May 2017, Oxford |
A. Scott |
£2,550.00 |
70th British Mathematical Colloquium 2018 |
11 - 14 June 2018, St Andrews |
M. Quick; K. Falconer; M. Todd |
£12,000.00 |
SciCADE 2017 |
11 - 15 September 2017, Bath |
T. Shardlow |
£5,000.00 |
Interdisciplinary Data Science Workshop on 'Mathematical Imaging with Partially Unknown Models' |
20 - 21 February 2017, Cambridge |
M. Pereyra |
£4,000.00 |
BioMathematics @ Swansea 2017 |
02 - 03 February 2017; 24 - 25 April 2017, Swansea |
E. Crooks |
£5,000.00 |
CinC: COW and Calf in Cardiff |
23 - 24 February 2017, Cardiff |
T. Logvinenko |
£2,430.00 |
The Eleventh UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods (UKBIM 11) |
10-11 July 2017, Nottingham Trent |
D. Chappell |
£2,350.00 |
Novel Mathematical Approaches for Modelling Evolution in Complex Living Systems |
03 - 06 April 2017, Leicester |
A. Morozov |
£2,000.00 |
ICFT2017: 21st Meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and Relatd Topics |
02 - 03 June 2017, Leeds |
V. Caudrelier |
£1,600.00 |
Diophantine Problems (DIOP) |
11 - 15 September 2017, Manchester |
D. Loughran |
£4,160.00 |
London Crypto Day |
05 June 2017, Royal Holloway University of London |
E. Quaglia |
£1,000.00 |
Fifth Scottish Partial Differential Equation Colloquium (5th SPDEC) |
08 - 09 June 2017, St Andrews |
T. Lorenzi; C. Venkataraman |
£4,000.00 |
Interactions of Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry |
31 July - 04 August 2017, Warwick |
W. Zhang |
£5,800.00 |
Gravity and Black Holes |
02 - 05 July 2017, Cambridge |
H. Reall |
£3,000.00 |
British Algebraic Geometry Meeting (BrAG) 2017 |
11 - 13 September 2017, Cambridge |
J. Ross |
£5,900.00 |
Extremal Combinatorics |
18 - 22 September 2017, Warwick |
K. Staden |
£6,882.50 |
British Logic Colloquium 2017 |
07 - 09 September 2017, Sussex |
B. Reus |
£5,680.00 |
Bond-node Structures: Rigidity, Combinatorics and Materials Science |
07 - 09 June 2017, Lancaster |
T. Nixon |
£1,065.00 |
Asymptotics for Stochastic Dynamical Systems |
29 - 31 August 2017, Swansea |
C. Yuan |
£6,000.00 |
32nd British Topology Meeting |
06 - 08 September 2017, Leicester |
A. Tonks |
£6,000.00 |
Two Linked One-Day Colloquia in Combinatorics |
10 - 11 May 2017, Queen Mary University of London |
J. Böttcher |
£5,400.00 |
Stochastic Epidemic Models with Structured Populations: Development, Analysis and Fitting to Data |
06 - 07 July 2017, Nottingham |
D. Sirl |
£2,440.00 |
Recenr Advances in the Numerical Analysis of PDEs |
21 - 23 June 2017, Bath |
M. Freitag; R. Scheichl; E. Spence |
£5,995.00 |
14th International Conference on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions and Applications |
03 - 07 July 2017, Kent |
P. Clarkson; A. Loureiro |
£5,000.00 |
One day workshop on Random Groups and Random Processes |
25 April 2017, King's College London |
A. McDowell |
£1,700.00 |
Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamics (with a view towards Number Theory) |
28 - 30 June 2017, Queen Mary University of London |
V. Anagnostopoulou; O. Jenkinson |
£4,400.00 |
Noncommutative and Nonassociative Algebraic Structures in Physics and Geometry |
30 August - 02 September 2017, Queen's University Belfast |
N. Iyudu |
£5,200.00 |
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Modelling in Finance (London 2017) |
31 August - 02 September 2017, Imperial College London |
R. Cont |
£5,000.00 |
Interacting Systems and Stochastic Partial Differntial Equations |
13 - 15 June 2017, Sheffield |
M. Joseph |
£4,500.00 |
One Day Function Theory Meeting |
04 September 2017, De Morgan House, London |
T. Kecker |
£4,953.60 |
Classical and Quantum Motion in Disordered Environment: A Random Event in honour of Ilya Goldshield |
18 - 22 December 2017, Queen Mary University of London |
A. Sodin |
£7,000.00 |
50 Years of NBFAS |
12 - 14 April 2018, Edinburgh |
M. Mathieu |
£5,600.00 |
71st British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC) |
08 - 11 April 2019, Lancaster |
J. Grabowski |
£12,000.00 |
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2018 (BAMC) |
26 - 29 March 2018, St Andrews |
M. Chaplain |
£6,000.00 |
70th British Mathematical Colloquium 2018 (BMC) (additional funding) |
11 - 14 June 2018, St Andrews |
M. Quick; K. Falconer; M. Todd |
£3,000.00 |
London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop |
08 - 09 February 2018, King's College London |
C. S. Iliopoulos |
£5,100.00 |
Groups, Representations and Geometry |
03 - 07 September 2018, Oxford |
I. Capdeboscq |
£6,000.00 |
Postgraduate Research Conference Grants – Scheme 8
Conference Title |
Dates, Place |
Applicant |
Grant Award |
Young Functional Analysts' Workshop (YFAW) |
29 - 31 March 2017, Glasgow |
S. White; A. Monk; L. Hamblin; S. Evington |
£3,000.00 |
The 7th British Postgraduate Model Theory Conference |
25 - 27 January 2017, Leeds |
D. Macpherson; D. Siniora |
£3,000.00 |
Research Students' Conference in Probability and Statistics |
18 - 21 April 2017, Durham |
J. Einbeck; S. E. Jackson |
£3,000.00 |
YTF 9 |
11 - 12 January 2017, Durham |
A. Taormina; M. Matuszewski |
£500.00 |
GAeL XXV (Géométrie Algébrique en Liberté) |
26 - 30 June 2017, Bath |
G. Sankaran; C. Onorati |
£4,000.00 |
EL:ECTRIC (Estactic Lectures: Early Career Topology Researchers In Conference) |
15 - 16 June 2017, Sheffield |
S. Whitehouse; G. Halliwell |
£4,000.00 |
19th Postgraduate Group Theory Conference |
27 - 30 June 2017, Cambridge |
S. Wadsley; A. Bode |
£4,000.00 |
Student Symposium on Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics |
05 July 2017, King's College London |
L. Viganò; M. Alzamel; P. Charalampopoulos |
£4,000.00 |
Young Researchers in Mathematics 2017 |
01 - 04 August 2017, Kent |
S. Pech; A. Rogers; A. Rojo-Echeburua; E. Dowie; W. Grummitt; J. Ishak; F. Claassens; N. Serwa |
£4,242.00 |
New Advances in Fano Manifolds |
04 - 08 December 2017, Cambridge |
R. Svaldi; L. Barrott |
£4,000.00 |
British Postgraduate Model Theory Conference |
04 - 06 January 2018, Oxford |
J. Pila; P. Dittmann; S. Eterovic; A. Ruiz Guido; H. Spence; N. Wentzlaff-Eggebert |
£4,000.00 |
Celebrating New Appointments – Scheme 9 (formally Scheme 1)
Conference Title |
Dates, Place |
Applicant |
Grant Award |
Index Theorems in Analysis, Geometry and Mathematical Physics |
May 2017, Kent |
N. Waterstraat |
£530.00 |
Developing Efficient Methodologies for Modelling Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology |
27 March 2017, Bath |
C. Yates |
£600.00 |
Spectral Geometry: A Meeting in Leeds |
One day during 27 March - 2 April 2017, Leeds |
G. Kokarev |
£596.00 |
Rough Paths in Probability and Statistics |
02 May 2017, Reading |
H. S. Boedihardjo |
£600.00 |
Advancements of Statistical Learning Theory in the UK |
Spring 2017, Lancaster |
A. Khaleghi |
£600.00 |
Maximal Conditions and Embeddings of Profinite Groups |
02 June 2017, Lincoln |
A. Thillaisundaram |
£600.00 |
Lévy Processes and their Applications |
26 June 2017, Manchester |
A. Watson |
£592.30 |
Discrete Models and KPZ Universality |
18 October 2017, Durham |
S. Chhita |
£562.50 |
Combinatorial Techniques in Analysis and Probability |
01 June 2017, Lancaster |
N. Blitvic |
£600.00 |
One Day on Compressive Sensing |
01 June 2017, Bath |
S. Gazzola |
£600.00 |
Modelling and Numerics for Fractional and Anomalous Diffusion |
26 June 2017, Manchester |
Y. Huang |
£570.00 |
New Methodology for Imaging Inverse Problems |
Provisionally 27/29 June 2017, Heriot-Watt |
M. Pereyra |
£600.00 |
Invariant Theory: Recent Progress and Applications |
16 June 2017, Middlesex |
J. Elmer |
£600.00 |
New Directions in the Model Theory of Valued Fields |
04 August 2017, Central Lancashire |
S. Anscombe |
£600.00 |
Combinatorics and Computation in Groups |
One day between 26 October - 03 November 2017, Heriot-Watt |
L. Ciobanu |
£600.00 |
Variational Approaches to Problems in Solid Mechanics |
18 December 2017, Warwick |
T. Hudson |
£600.00 |
Probability and Analysis in Statistical Mechanics |
22 January 2018, Sussex |
S. Jansen |
£600.00 |
Scalable Inference Day |
23 January 2018, Sussex |
A. Duncan |
£600.00 |
Mathematics in Materials Science |
24 January 2018, Sussex |
K. Koumatos |
£600.00 |
Random Walks and Markov Chains Day |
25 January 2018, Sussex |
V. Vysotskiy |
£600.00 |
Mirror Symmetry and Cluster Algebras |
09 November 2017, Kent |
C. Pech |
£600.00 |
Categorical Methods in Mirror Symmetry |
10 November 2017, Kent |
N. Sibilla |
£600.00 |