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SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS

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• 11November:GraduateStudentMeeting,London• 11November:AnnualGeneralMeeting,London• 20December:SW&SouthWalesRegionalMeeting,Bath• 24February2017:MaryCartwrightLecture,London• 3–7April2017:LMSSocietyMeetingatBMC,Surrey

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COUNCIL FOR THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES EU REFERENDUM STATEMENT

Following the results of the UK ReferendumonmembershipoftheEU,theCouncilforthe

MathematicalSciences(CMS)takesthefollowingview:• Thefocuswillremainoncollaborationinthemathematicalsciencesascurrentlyexists.

• Allacademic/research/professionalmathemati-calsocietieswillcontinuetoworkwiththeircounterpartsinothercountriesascloselyandrespectfullyaspossible,regardlessofthepoliticalarrangementsinplace.

• CurrentlyallEUarrangementsremaininforceastheUKhasnotyetlefttheEUandcurrentarrangementsarebeingkeptinplaceduringanytransitionphaseegaccesstostudentloansforEUstudentswillcontinueforthoseinreceiptofsuchloansandforthosecurrentlyapplyingforaloan.

• Whateverthefinalarrangements,theaimwillbetosustaincollaborationinthemathemati-calscienceswithEUandinternationalpartnersonanequallyopenandreciprocalbasis.

LMS HONORARY MEMBERS 2016

LMSHonoraryMembersfor2016:ProfessorIdunReitenandProfessorMaximKontsevich;seetextonpage3

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The London Mathematical Society haselected Professor Idun Reiten, of theNorwegianUniversity of Science and Tech-nology (NTNU) in Trondheim, toHonoraryMembershipoftheSociety.ProfessorReitenis a world-leading mathematician whoseworkhasrevolutionizedtherepresentationtheoryoffinitedimensional algebras. Thefundamental notions she has introduced,andimportantresultsshehasproved,form

a large part of the language and contextforcurrentworkinthisfield.TheLMShasalsoelectedProfessor Maxim

Kontsevich, of the Institut des HautesÉtudesScientifiques, toHonoraryMember-ship of the Society. Professor Kontsevichhas made fundamental contributions tomany areas of mathematics, primarily ingeometry and topology using ideas fromtheoreticalandmathematicalphysics.

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SIMON DONALDSON AWARDED DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA

Professor Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS,permanent member of the Simons Center forGeometry and Physics at Stony Brook University(US)andProfessor inPureMathematicsat ImperialCollegeLondon(UnitedKingdom),willbeawardedthehonorarydegreeDoctor Honoris Causa byUni-versidadComplutensedeMadrid(Spain).Theceremonywill takeplaceon20January2017at 12:00 in the Aula Miguel de Guzmán of theFacultyofMathematicsofUniversidadComplutensedeMadrid. TherewillalsobeaColloquiumon19

January2017at13:00attheFacultyofMathematics.For further information visit thewebsite atwww.ucm.es/geometria_topologia or contactVicenteMuñoz([email protected]).


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MINICOURSES

SPEAKERS

Organisers: Alessio Martini and Andrew Morris (Birmingham)

Kaj NyströmUppsala Universitet

Pascal AuscherUniversité ParisSud

Tony CarberyUniversity of Edinburgh

Martin DindošUniversity of Edinburgh

Dorothee FreyDelft University of Technology

Sylvie MonniauxAixMarseille Université

Fulvio RicciScuola Normale Superiore

Javier ParcetInstituto de Ciencias Matemáticas

Charles BattyUniversity of Oxford

Andrea CarbonaroUniversità degli Studi di Genova

Véronique FischerUniversity of Bath

José María MartellInstituto de Ciencias Matemáticas

Detlef MüllerChristianAlbrechtsUniversität zu Kiel

Maria VallarinoPolitecnico di Torino

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BCS-FACS Evening Seminar

Joint event with the London Mathematical Society

Thursday 3rd November 2016, 6:00pm

Professor Muffy Calder (University of Glasgow)

Probabilistic formal analysis of software usage styles

in the wild Discrete mathematics and logics are used to analyse the intended behaviour of software systems. Statistical methods are used to analyse the logged data from instrumented systems. So what happens when we instrument software: can we bring the two techniques together to analyse how people actually use software? But users are difficult – they adopt different styles at different times! What characterises usage style, of a user and of populations of users, how should we characterise the different styles, how do characterisations evolve over an individual user trace, and/or over a number of sessions over days and months, and how do characteristics of usage inform evaluation for redesign and future design? Can we formalise these concepts and construct effective procedures? Professor Calder will outline a novel mathematical/computational approach that aims to answer all these questions. The approach is based on discrete space stochastic models, statistical inference of those models, and stochastic temporal logics and model checking for investigating hypotheses about use, all applied to longitudinal sets of logged usage data. The approach is the result of a five year collaboration between software developers, statisticians, HCI, and formal methods experts. She will illustrate by way of a mobile app that is used by tens of thousands of users worldwide; a new version of the app, based on the analysis and evaluation, has just been deployed. This is formal analysis in the wild! The venue is the London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS. Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm. The seminar is free of charge and open to everyone. If you would like to attend, please register at [email protected].

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Joint Meeting with the RSS and Fisher Memorial Trust

Data Science: The View from the Mathematical Sciences27th October 2016Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX

The 35th Fisher Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) as part of this half-day conference

Final Programme

13.00 Lunch14.00-14.45 Professor Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield) Computational Perspectives: Fairness and Awareness in the Analysis of Data14:45-15:30: Dr Johan Koskinen (University of Manchester) Generative and Estimable Models for Longitudinal Social Networks15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee16.00-17.15 The Fisher Memorial Lecture Professor Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) Statistical Science and Data Science: Where do we go from here?17.15 Drinks and light refreshments

We are grateful to the London Mathematical Society for sponsoring lunch and the post-lecture refreshments

Register here: https://events.rss.org.uk/rss/55/register

There is no charge to attend but registration is required

Organiser Name: Paul Gentry ([email protected])

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OPEN HOUSE 2016

For the sixth year the LMSwill open its doors tothepublic as part theOpenHouse London event.De Morgan House will be open on Sunday 18September from 10 am until 5 pm. Visitors willbegivena tourof thebuildingand therewillbepresentationsonmathematicsandtheworkoftheSociety.SincetheLMSopeneditsdoorsin2011therehavebeenover1,500visitors.

LMS COUNCIL DIARY8 July 2016: A personal view

This diary entry covers the 8 July 2016Council meeting. After agreeing on theminutes of the previous Council meetingandnotingtheunconfirmedminutesoftheFinance and General Purposes Committeemeeting,theCouncilreceivedanupdateonthe activities of the President undertakensince the lastmeetingof theCouncil. Themainactivitiesincludedattendanceat:theAbel Prize Ceremony, the StandingOrdersReview Group, and the meeting of theLMS Departmental Representatives. Therewas a further discussion about the plansfor the Strategic Retreat 2017, and thePresident reminded Council of the impor-tance of focusing on strategic matters atthemeeting,ratherthandetails.Council was very pleased to note thedecision of the Presidential Search GrouptonominateCarolineSeriesforelectionasPresidentinNovember2017.Vice-President John Greenlees informedCouncilabouttheParliamentaryLinksDayheld atWestminster on the day after theEU Referendum. He noted that both theCouncil for Mathematical Sciences andEuropeanMathematicalSocietyhadissuedstatements following the Referendumresult.Therewasadiscussiononfinancialmatters,including accounts review, budget alloca-

tion for 2016-2017, and budget planningfor 2017-2019. Council agreed the incomeand expenditure for 2016-2017 and theplanningfiguresfor2017-2019.ThePresidentinformedtheCouncilaboutthe progress of discussions on how theSociety might support the area of math-ematics and computation. Professor AriehIserles is tohelp theSociety in thismatterby assembling a group of specialists toconsiderpossibilities.Council continuedtodiscuss theNewslet-terReviewandagreedthatexpressionsofinterest shouldbe invited for thepositionofEditor-in-ChiefandashortlistsubmittedtoCouncilforconsideration.Council agreed the recommendation ofthePrizesCommitteethatthe2016ZeemanMedalbeawardedtoRobEastaway.Other activities to note were an updateby Vice-President Brown on analysingthe effects of the allocation of DoctoralTraining funding; a proposal by EugenieHunsicker,asChairoftheWomeninMath-ematics Committee, to encourage expres-sionsof interestfromdepartmentstohostWomen in Mathematics Days and Girls inMathematics events; our response to theconsultation on the Teaching ExcellenceFramework.

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16-17 December 2016

Department of Mathematics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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University of York

All Finalists Maths Undergraduates, who are considering applying for a Maths PhD in 2017, are invited to attend the 2016 LMS Prospects in Mathematics Meeting.

The meeting will feature a range of speakers from a wide range of mathematical fields across the UK who will discuss their current research and what opportunities are available to you: Statistics, Probability and Finance o Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)

Stochastic analysis and Probability o Vicky Henderson (University of

Warwick) Mathematical Finance o Julie Wilson (University of York)

Applications of Statistics o Alastair Young (Imperial College)

Statistical Methodology Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics o Mark Chaplain (University of Dundee)

Mathematical Biology and Theoretical Ecology

o Ruth Gregory (Durham University) General Relativity and Cosmology

o Tim Spiller, (University of York) Quantum Physics and Quantum Information

o Sarah Waters (University of Oxford) Fluid Dynamics

Pure Mathematics o Victor Beresnevich (University of York)

Analytic Number Theory o Peter Cameron (University of St

Andrews) Algebra and Combinatorics o Tony Carbery (University of

Edinburgh) Harmonic Analysis and PDEs

o Katrin Leschke (University of Leicester) Geometry

50 places are available, including overnight accommodation and some funding towards travel costs.

To apply: Please email Claire Farrar/Linda Elvin ([email protected]); headed Prospects 2016 Application with the statement: “I am on track academically to begin Ph.D. studies in 2017” with evidence of your predicted degree classification. Application deadline is Friday 11 November 2016. Late application will be considered at the organisers’ discretion .


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LMS NEWS FOR UNDERGRADUATES, MASTERS STUDENTS, PHD STUDENTS, POST-DOCS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERSUNDERGRADUATES

Date for your diary: 16-17 December 2016 Application deadline: 11 November 2016The next LMS Prospects in MathematicsMeetingwillbeheldinYork.Furtherdetailsareavailableonline:www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-prospects-mathematics-meeting.

Funding for Undergraduate Society Meetings: Up to £500 availableLooking to organise a meeting for yourSociety? Apply to the LMS for funding tosupport costs for a speaker and to covercateringcostse.g.awinereceptionafterthemeeting.Furtherinformationandanappli-cation form are available online:www.lms.ac.uk/grants/LMS-Funding-Undergrad-Soc-Meetings.

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Dates for your diary:

11 November 2016: Graduate Student Meeting, BMA House, LondonJoin us for a morning of talks, includingthe chance togive your own talk, prior tothe LMS AGM and guest lectures by AlanChampneys (Bristol) and the Naylor PrizeLecture; Jon Chapman (Oxford). Furtherdetails available online: www.lms.ac.uk/events/society-meetings.

16-17 December 2016 Application deadline: 11 November 2016The next LMS Prospects in MathematicsMeetingwillbeheld inYork. Furtherdetailsare available online: www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-prospects-mathematics-meeting.

PhD STUDENTSDates for your diary: 15 September 2016: Application deadline forPostgraduate Conference Grants (Scheme 8).Thinking of organising your own UK confer-ence for your peers? Apply to the LMS forsupportofupto£4,000.Furtherdetailsonline:www.lms.ac.uk/grants/postgraduate-research-conference-grants-scheme-8.

11 November 2016: Graduate Student Meeting, BMA House, LondonJoin us for amorning of talks, including thechancetogiveyourowntalk,priortotheLMSAGM and guest lectures by Alan Champneys(Bristol) and the Naylor Prize Lecture; JonChapman (Oxford). Further details availableonline:www.lms.ac.uk/events/society-meetings.

POST-DOCS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERSDate for your diary: 15 September 2016ApplicationdeadlineforResearchGrants.• Have you recently been appointed to your


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first positions as a new lecturer? Whynothostascientificmeetingtocelebratethis important milestone in your career.Grants of up to £600 are available fromthe LMS Celebrating New Appointmentsscheme: www.lms.ac.uk/grants/celebrat-ing-new-appointments-scheme-1.

• Planningaresearchvisitwithyourcol-

laborator?ApplytotheLMSforsup-portofupto£1,200fromaResearchinPairsGrant(Scheme4).Furtherdetailsonline:www.lms.ac.uk/grants/research-pairs-scheme-4.

• TheLMSalsorunsothergrantschemes.Formoreinformation,visitwww.lms.ac.uk/[email protected].

The MAGIC group runs a wide range of PhD level lecture

courses in pure and applied mathematics, using IOCOM’s

Visimeet Video Conferencing technology supported by Janet.

MAGIC stands for Mathematics Access Grid Instruction and

Collaboration and is a consortium of 20 UK mathematics

departments who jointly deliver the programme of lectures

over the web. Their students are able not only to receive the

lecture live, but also to interact in real time with the lecturers.

Students from universities outside of the MAGIC consortium

can subscribe to MAGIC and join courses, including assessment,

on a term-by-term basis, for a small fee.

Details of all the courses MAGIC provide can be found at:

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LMS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH BURSARIES 2016TheLondonMathematicalSociety ispleasedtoannounce the listof successfulapplicantstoitsthirdroundofUndergraduateResearchBursaries. For the 2016 round 36 awardswere made to students from 18 differentinstitutions to undertake a research project

alongsidearesearchsupervisor.ThepurposeoftheBursariesistoenableundergraduateswithresearchpotentialtoexperienceresearchandtoencouragethemtoconsideracareerinscientificresearch.*Indicatesthattheinstitu-tionagreedtomatch-fundtheaward.

Institution Research Supervisor

Student Research

Aberdeen EllenHenke GyanSingh IdentifyingMathieugroups

Bath* JonathanDawes AnvarbekAtayev Thermalconvectioninnon-Newtonianfluids

Bath* MelinaFrietag PaulRussell Projectionbasedpreconditionersforlineardiscreteill-posedproblemsarisinginimageprocessing

Bath* SimonHarris PhilipCohen Characteristicsofvortexmotionofclosedsurfacesofrevolution

Bath* PeterPostl LudiWang Incentivemechanismsforresearchandinnovation

Bristol* MártonBálazs MagnusBennett Interactingwalkers:stationarityandfluctuations

Bristol* ThiloGross SalvadorCatsis Effectivedegreeinepidemicspreadingoncomplexnetworks

Cambridge* Carola-BibianeSchonberg

GeorgMaierhofer Bileveloptimisationforlearningthesamplingpatterninmagneticresonancetomography

Cambridge* NatalieVriend KatarzynaWarburton

Silohonking:experimentalinvestiga-tionintotheoriginsandcharacteris-ticsofsoundemissionfromgranularflowinaverticaltube

Durham* VitaliyKurlin PhilipSmith Superpixelmeshesforfasterimageandvideoprocessing

Durham* SimonRoss DannyVagnozzi Tensornetworksandholography

EastAnglia* JosephGrant AudieWarren ConstructingfiniteFrobeniusringsforapplicationinalgebraiccodingtheory

EastAnglia* DavidProment BenjaminYoung-Longstaff

Vorticesinsuperfluids

Edinburgh* RuthKing MartinTrimmel Exploringspatiallyexplicitcapture-recapturemodels

Glasgow* ChristopheAthorne

IonutPaun GeometryoflowgenusRiemannsurfaces

Glasgow* LudgerEvers AleksandraBoicuka

Smoothingmethodsfordatafromtime-of-flightexperiments

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Glasgow* LuigiVergori TheodoraTorcea Arigorousmathematicalderiva-tionoftheOberbeck-Boussinesqapproximation

Glasgow* AndrewWilson SebastianCultreradiMontesano

Phylogenicalgebraicgeometry:localdescriptionoftheKimura2-parametermodel

ImperialCollege*

PaoloCascini FedericoBongiorno

Studyofellipticcurvesanditsap-plications

Nottingham* JoelFeinstein WilliamReynolds RemovabilityofexceptionalsetsforHöldercontinuousfunctionsoncompactplanesets

Nottingham* JohnKing JackFellerman ExponentialasymptoticsNottingham* MatthiasKurzke TimothyEspin PointvortexconfigurationsNottingham* YvesvanGennip ZhaoyuanZou Optimalparameterselectionin

topicmodelsNottinghamTrent*

JonathanCrofts DanielCrookes Multiplexnetworkmodelsofthebrain

Oxford* YvesCadebosq LorenzoSarnataro Onmaximumprincipleforsystemsof2ndorderellipticPDE

Oxford* KobiKremnitzer DanielFletcher Kac-Moodygroupsasalgebraicgroupsandtheirquantumversions

Oxford* TomSanders Ana-ElizaCasapopol

Sumsetsofverylargedensity

Plymouth DanielRobertz EdwardKitcher ExactsolutionsofPDEsandsymmetries

Portsmouth* ThomasKecker CallumWaite InvestigationoflatticereductionalgorithmsfortheNTRUencryp-tionscheme

Portsmouth* WilliamLee MichaelCastle Mathematicalmodellingofanewdesignofwaveenergyconverter

StAndrews* DavidDritschel SarahStirrat Characteristicsofvortexmotionofclosedsurfacesofrevolution

UniversityCollegeLondon*

KarenPage LuzieHelfmann Gametheoreticinvestigationoftherolesoftrustandreputationinonlineretail

UniversityCollegeLondon*

DmitriVassiliev MihalBarbu SpectralanalysisoftheoperatorcurlonaclosedRiemannian3-manifold

Warwick* WeiyiZhang JonahDuncan Zolimanifoldsandtheirinter-actionswithcomplexandsymplecticgeometry

York MartinBees EuanSmithers Modellingflowfieldsduetomicroorganismsinconfinedenvi-ronments

York VictorBeresnevich

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EMS PRIZES 2016

The 2016 prizes of the EuropeanMathemati-calSociety(EMS)wereannouncedatthe7ECMin Berlin. The prizes were awarded by thePresident of the EMS, Pavel Exner, togetherwith representatives of the prize committees.Eachawardcomprisesacertificateandacashprizeof€5,000.

EMS PrizesTheprizeisawardedtomathematiciansunder35 years of age of European nationality orworkinginEurope.Thetenwinnerswere:• MarkBravermann(Princeton,USA)• VincentCalvez(ENSLyon,France)• GuidoDePhilippis(SISSATrieste,Italy)• HugoDuminil-Copin(Geneva,Switzerland)• JamesMaynard(Oxford,UK)• PeterScholze(Bonn,Germany)• PeterVarjú(Cambridge,UK)• GeordieWilliamson(MPIBonn,Germany)• ThomasWillwacher(ETHZurich,Switzerland)

• SaraZahedi(KTH,Sweden)

Felix Klein PrizeThe prize was awarded to Patrice Hauret(Michelin, France). The prize is awardedto a young scientist or a small groupof young scientists (normallyunder theageof 38) for using sophisticated methods togive an outstanding solution, whichmeets with the complete satisfaction ofindustry,toaconcreteanddifficultindustrialproblem.

Otto Neugebauer PrizeThe prize was awarded to Jeremy Gray(OpenUniversity,UK).Theprizeisawardedfor highly original and influential workin the field of history of mathemat-ics that enhances the understanding ofeither the development of mathemat-ics or a particular mathematical subjectin any period and in any geographicalregion.Moreinformationoneachprizewinnerisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/gqjotje.

STEPHEN SMALE PRIZE: CALL FOR NOMINATIONSThe third Stephen Smale Prize will beawarded at the conference of the Founda-tions of Computational Mathematics(FoCM)being held in Barcelona from10 to 19 July2017(www.ub.edu/focm2017).The Society for the Foundations of Com-putational Mathematics was created in thesummer of 1995, following a month-longmeetinginParkCity,Utah,whichwasprinci-pallyorganizedbySteveSmale“tostrength-en theunity ofmathematics andnumericalanalysis, and to narrow the gap betweenpure and applied mathematics”. Smale'svision has been the Society's inspiration forall these years. The journal Foundations of Computational Mathematics was created;severalcolloquiaandresearchsemesterswereorganized, and an international conferenceisheldeverythreeyears.Afterfifteenyears

of existence,withanestablishedand recog-nized position in the scientific community,theSocietycreatedtheStephenSmalePrizewhoseobjectiveistorecognizetheworkofa youngmathematician in the areas at theheart of the society's interests and to helptopromotehisorherintegrationamongtheleadersofthescientificcommunity.ThefirstStephen Smale Prize was awarded in 2011to SnorreH. Christiansen; the second recipi-ents in 2014were Carlos Beltran andMarkBraverman.More information and prize rules can befound at www.ub.edu/focm2017/smaleprize.html.Nominations should be sent to the FoCMSecretary Angela Kunoth ([email protected]) as a single pdf-file by 24:00(GMT) on9 October 2016.

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CECIL KING TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP 2016

TheLondonMathematicalSocietyannuallyawards a £5,000 Cecil King Travel Scholar-shipinMathematics,toayoungmathema-ticianofoutstandingpromise.TheScholar-shipisawardedtosupportaperiodofstudyorresearchabroad,typicallyforaperiodofthreemonths.The2016CecilKingTravelScholarshiphasbeen awarded to Brendan Nolan of theUniversity of Kent. He is currently a PhD

student,supervisedbyDrStéphaneLaunois,expectingtosubmithisthesisinearly2017.Brendan will travel to the University ofWaterloo, Canada where he will workwithProfessor JasonBell. Inparticular thevisit will cover noncommutative geometry,representation theory and ideal theory.Brendan will also collaborate with thewider algebra community during his timeatWaterloo.

NEW GRESHAM COLLEGE PROFESSOR ANNOUNCEDGreshamCollegehas announcedtheappointmentof Chris Budd,OBE, ProfessorofAppliedMath-ematics, Univer-sity of Bath, tothe oldest math-ematical chairin Britain, theP r o f e s s o r s h i pof Geometry

and Other Mathematical Sciences atGreshamCollege.InhisroleasProfessorofGeometry atGreshamCollege, Chris Buddwillcontinuethe419-year-oldtraditionofdeliveringfreepubliclecturesintheCityofLondonandbeyond.As well as his new position at GreshamCollege,ChrisBuddisProfessorofAppliedMathematicsandDirectoroftheCentreofNonlinear Mechanics, University of Bath.His broad research interests are based oninterdisciplinary industrial and appliedmathematics, particularly in complex non-linearproblemsarisinginrealapplications.HewasawardedhisOBEin2015forservicestoscienceandmathematicseducation.More information about the GreshamGeometry Professorship can be found atwww.gresham.ac.uk/professorships/geom-

etry-professorship/.The series of free public lectures to bedeliveredduring2016-17willbeonMath-ematics and the Making of the Modern and Future World.Thesixlectureswillinvesti-gatehowmathematicsisrelevanttoallofour lives,andtheprocessbywhichmath-ematical ideasmovefromtheabstracttothepractical,andalsohowtechnology istransferred between very different disci-plines.The lectureswill showthe roleofmathematicsboth inthetechnologythatwealltakeforgranted,andalsoitsmajorapplications to some of the Eight GreatTechnologies, recently identified by HMGovernment. The hour-long free publiclectureswilltakeplaceattheMuseumofLondon,EC2:What have mathematicians done for us?1pm,Tuesday11October2016The challenge of Big Data 1pm,Tuesday15November2016Mathematics goes to the movies 1pm,Tuesday10January2017How much maths can you eat?1pm,Tuesday14February2017Mathematical materials 1pmonTuesday14March2017Energetic mathematics 1pmonTuesday25April2017Moreinformationaboutthelecturescanbefoundathttp://tinyurl.com/zc3apc3.


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SUBLIME SYMMETRY

William De Morgan was one of the mostcreativeandinventiveceramicistsofthe19thcentury.Hisbold,colourfuldesignshavelongbeenlooktoaspivotalintheArtsandCraftsmovement, through De Morgan’s associa-tionwithMorris&Co.SublimeSymmetry isan exhibitionwhich looks past the gloriouslustreglazedvasesandtilestoDeMorgan’sdesign and pattern making process, whichsingleshimoutasadesignerwithextraordi-narymathematical skill.DeMorgan’s fatherwas the notable Victorian mathematicianand logician,AugustusDeMorgan,thefirstPresidentoftheLondonMathematicSociety

who undoubtedly sparked his son’s interestin geometry, allowinghim toutilise itwithsuchconvictionandflair.The De Morgan Foundation, who haveorganisedthis touringexhibitionofWilliamDeMorgan’s ceramics and design on paper,wouldliketo inviteyoutotheprivateviewatTorreAbbeyinTorbay,Devon,onFriday9September, to seefirst-hand thiswonderfulsynergy of mathematics and art. The exhi-bition will be open at Torre Abbey until 4December2016.

SarahHardy,ExhibitionCuratorSublimeSymmetry

MATHEMATICS REMAINS TOP A-LEVEL SUBJECT

MathematicscontinuestobethetopA-levelsubjectinspiteofadecreaseinthenumberof A-level Mathematics entries across theUK. While the number of students sittingthe exam is down by 0.6% on last year to92,163, the percentage of the total A-levelcohortrepresentedbymathematicshasrisenslightlyfrom10.9%to11%.FiguresreleasedtodaybytheJointCouncilfor Qualifications also show that A-levelFurtherMathematicshascontinuedtoriseinpopularity, with entries increasing by 1.8%(to15,257).However, a worrying trend is that ASMathematics entries decreased by 1.6%(to 162,741), while AS Further Mathemat-icsentriesdecreased1.1%(to26,742). Thereformed A-level in Mathematics has notyetbeenintroduced,sothismaybeanearlywarning sign that the changing fundingregime and the decoupling of AS fromA-level already underway in almost allsubjectsarecombiningtoreducethenumberofstudentstakingafourthsubjectatAS.The London Mathematical Society (LMS)andtheInstituteofMathematicsanditsAp-plications(IMA)extendtheircongratulations

toallstudentsreceivingtheirASandA-levelresultstoday.The skills students develop in studyingMathematics open up a wide choice ofrewarding careers. Mathematical sciencesplay a vital role in all aspects of modernsociety, including cybersecurity,manufactur-ing sectors such as aerospace, finance andmeeting the new challenges of ‘big data’.Maintaining the pipeline of well-trainedmathematicians is vital for the future pros-perityoftheUKanditspositionintheworldeconomy.ProfessorPeterGiblin,ChairoftheHigherEducation Committee at the IMA, andProfessorAliceRogers,ChairoftheEducationCommitteeattheLMSadded,‘Itisexcellentnews that theproportionofA-levelentriesinbothMathematicsandFurtherMathemat-ics continues to rise, and candidates are tobe congratulated on a further increase inhigh grades achieved. Themore worryingtrends at AS will need to be monitoredcarefully, since both AS Mathematics andFurther Mathematics are useful qualifica-tionsintheirownrightaswellasprovidingasteppingstonetothefullA-level’.


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PARLIAMENTARY LINKS DAY 2016

WiththeresultoftheEUreferendumanditspotentialimpactonhighereducation,scienceandresearchitwasverytimelythatthetopicfordiscussionatthisyear’sonTuesday28June2016attheHouseofCommons,organisedbytheRoyalSocietyofBiology,wasScience after the Referendum: What Next?OnceagaintheCouncilfortheMathematicalSciences(CMS)was represented at the event and at thefollowing House of Lords lunch, which wasattendedbyEuropeanMathematicalSociety(EMS)President,ProfessorPavelExner,attheinvitationoftheLMS.Many in the science, engineering, technol-ogyandmathematics(STEM)communityhadsupported a remain vote as the benefits toscience,researchandinnovation,forexamplethrough EU grants and the free movementof students and researchers, are vital to thecontinuedpositionoftheUKasa‘sciencesu-perpower’.TheeventwasopenedbytheRtHonJohnBercowMP,SpeakeroftheHouseofCommons,whowelcomedtheparticipantsandwentontooutlinehowSTEMis ‘fundamentaltothecountry’spresentandfuture’.The decision made by the UK public hasmeantthepossibilityofmajorchangesfortheSTEMcommunityinitsdealingswithEurope

and the communitywas anxious for reassur-ances of what the future might hold. TheMinisterofStateforUniversitiesandSciences,JoJohnsonMP,addressedthedelegatesandpointedout that thecommunityasawhole‘needs to maximise the opportunities’ fromthesituationandthat ‘internationalcollabo-ration will become increasingly important’.Johnson referred to a statement that hadbeen issuedby theDepartment forBusiness,Innovation and Skills (http://tinyurl.com/jdrkcz6)whichoutlinesthattherewillbenoimmediate changes in thoseareasofhighereducationandresearchthatarelinkedtoEUfundingandmovementofstudents.Johnsonwas confident that UK STEM will endureand that the government will continue to‘championSTEM’.The Chair of the Science and TechnologySelectCommittee,NicolaBlackwoodMP,gaveapassionatedefenceoftheSTEMcommunityandtheimportanceofthecontinuedgrowthand sustainability of the sector throughsupport from the government to meet thechallenges that will inevitably arise in thecomingmonths.Blackwoodpointedoutthatin the medium term there would be uncer-tainty and that the Science and TechnologyCommitteewillbeat the forefrontofnego-

tiations to maintain the levels offunding for the STEM community,and looking at how to engagethe public in discussions affectingscience. The message she saidwas that ‘the UK is firmly openforbusiness’andtheneedwas to‘ensurethatscienceandinnovationareatthefrontandcentreofthedebate’. Regardless of the [ref-erendum] decision the UK is stilla science superpower’. After theevent the Science and TechnologyCommitteeannouncedthat ithaddecided to examine the implica-tionsandopportunitiesof leavingtheEUforscienceandresearchandhavesetupaninquirytowhichthePavelExner,PresidentoftheEMSand

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CMS is in theprocessofprovidinga submis-siononbehalfof themathematical sciences(http://tinyurl.com/gpmozjn).RepresentativesfromtheSTEMcommunityandMPscontinuedthediscussionintwopanelsessionsthatcoveredScience and EuropeandScience and the World.InthefirstsessionDrSarah Main, Director, Campaign for Scienceand Engineering (CaSE) pointed out the im-perative for the STEM community, to speakwith a united voice in future negotiationsand that itwas very important topresentawell-defined message. What in particularmadetherelationshipwiththeEUworkwithSTEM and how might we convince peopleof the valuesof STEM?DrMain saw this asthe responsibility of the entire community –academia, industry, learnedandprofessionalbodies,andresearchcharities.ImranKhan,ChiefExecutive,BritishScienceAssociation,wentontomakeaveryimportantpointthatalthoughthemajorityoftheSTEM

community had advocated a remain votein the interests of science, innovation andresearch,andthatthismessagehadnotbeenlistenedtobythepublicasawhole,itwaspe-ripheraltothedecisionmaking.Thequestionis,‘Howdoessciencereachouttothepublicmore successfully?’ Nicola Dandridge, ChiefExecutive, UUK highlighted how theUKHEsector relies on close ties with Europe andthe need to maintain a close relationshipgoingforward.ThequestionsconcerningtheHEsector‘needtobeansweredquickly’andUUK is committed toengagingwithgovern-ment and European partners, with a UUKdelegationtovisitBrusselstodiscussthewayforward.ThesecondpanelsessiondiscussedhowtheSTEM community already engages with therestoftheworldandhowthismightcontinueandfillanygapsthatarisefromanEUexit.DrRobertParker,ChiefExecutive,RoyalSocietyofChemistry(RSC)said,‘theSTEMcommunityhas a responsibility to collaborate globally.Wedon’twanttoloseourleadershippositionintheglobalscientificcommunity’.TheclosingaddresscamefromtheProfessorSir Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, President ofthe Royal Society. Professor Ramakrishnanoutlined that theUKhashistoricallybeenaleader in STEMand that thismust continueotherwise the UK’s global influence woulddecline.Longtermstablecommitmentswererequired and it was important not to losescientists during what could be a difficulteconomicperiod.WithEUfundingnowatrisk,overall investment in STEM must continueandnegotiationswithgovernment tomakeup any deficits in fundingwould be crucial.He went on to say that the UK’s exclusionfromanyEUprogrammeswoulddamagethecountry’sabilitytoinfluencedevelopmentintheseareasandthattheUKmustcontinuetobeanopenandwelcomingplacetoconductresearch.‘Manyglobalchallengescanonlybeconfronted by collaborationworldwide andthe challenges ahead provide opportunitiestolookwiderthanEurope’.More information about the event isavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/hq3fsbf.

NicolaBlackwoodMP,ChairoftheScienceandTechnologySelectCommittee

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MATHEMATICS POLICY ROUND-UPSeptember 2016

RESEARCH

Lord Stern review of REFThe independent review of the process forassessing university research and allocat-ing public funding was published in July,outliningproposals toprotect and strength-entheUK’sleadershipinworld-classresearch.Lord Stern commissioned by the govern-menttocarryoutthereviewoftheResearchExcellenceFramework(REF)toensurefutureuniversity research funding is allocatedmore efficiently, offers greater rewards forexcellent research and reduces the adminis-trativeburdenoninstitutions.Stern’s review of the Research Excel-lence Framework - Building on Success andLearningformExperiencessetsoutproposalsincluding:• tocountallresearchactivestaffintheREFbutvaryingthenumberofpiecestheymightsubmit-currentlyhighereducationinstitutionsselectthestaffthatwillbein-cludedandthisinnovationwilleasepres-sureandencourageacademicstoresearchnewareasoronalongertime-scale;

• wideninganddeepeningthenotionofresearch“impact”toincludeinfluenceonpublicengagement,cultureandonteaching,avoidingdistortionsofresearchchoicesandcareers;

• introducinganewinstitutionallevelas-sessmenttofostergreatercohesivenessbetweenacademicsandrewardcollabora-tiononinterdisciplinaryactivities.

The Review also recommends that outputsshould not be portable. ‘HEIs hiring staffduringtheREFcyclewouldbeabletoincludethemintheirstaffreturn.Buttheywouldbeabletoincludeonlyoutputsbytheindividualthathavebeenacceptedforpublicationafterjoiningtheinstitution.Disincentivisingshort-term and narrowly-motivated movementacross the sector, while still incentivisinglong-term investment inpeoplewillbenefitUK research and should also encourage

greatercollaborationacrossthesystem’.ThereportalsohighlightsthattheREFshouldcontinuetosupportexcellencewhereveritisfound.Thefull report isavailableat http://tinyurl.com/jk3nl9k.A summary of responses from the highereducationcommunitytothecallforevidenceforLordStern’sreviewoftheResearchExcel-lence Framework (REF) is also available. Italsoincludesthefindingsfrom40qualitativeinterviewswithhighereducationprofession-alsandresearchusers. More information isavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/jkd4xq3.

Science and Research after the EU referendumTheHouseofCommonsScienceandTechnol-ogy Select Committee decided to examinetheimplicationsandopportunitiesofleavingthe EU for science and research. More in-formation is available at http://tinyurl.com/gpmozjn.The Chair of the Science and Technol-ogySelectCommittee,NicolaBlackwoodMP,wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequerrelatingtoprotectingandpromotingscienceafter the EU referendum. The letter isavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/znmskjh.TheSTEMcommunitycametogetheratthisyear’sParliamentaryLinksDaytodiscussthefutureforscienceandresearchaftertheEUreferendum(seepage20).

HIGHER EDUCATIONHigher Education and Research BillThe Bill was presented to the House on19 May 2016. On Tuesday 19 July, the BillreceiveditsSecondReadingintheHouseofCommonswhereMPsdebatedthemainprin-ciplesoftheBill.TheBillhasnowbeensenttothePublicBillCommitteewheredetailedexaminationof the Billwill takeplace. TheBill Committee is expected to hold oralevidence sessions on Tuesday 6 Septemberand the Public Bill Committee is now abletoreceivewrittenevidence,theclosingdate

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forwhichis18October2016.Moreinformation is available at http://tinyurl.com/zhnjrxb.

Regius ProfessorshipsHer Majesty the Queen hashonoured 12 UK universities bycreating Regius Professorships aspart of her 90th birthday celebra-tions.ThetitleofRegiusProfessorshipisaprestigiousawardbestowedbytheSovereign to recognise exception-allyhighqualityresearchataninsti-tution.Only14havebeengrantedsince the reign of Queen Victoria,including12tomarkHerMajesty’sDiamondJubilee.RecipientsofnewRegiusProfessor-shipshavebeenselectedbyopencompetition,judged by an independent expert panel ofbusinessandacademicexperts.ARegiusPro-fessorshipisareflectionoftheexceptionallyhighqualityofteachingandresearchatanin-stitution.AnewRegiusProfessorshipinMath-ematics hasbeenawarded to theUniversityof Oxford.More information is available athttp://tinyurl.com/hlppub2

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGESNew teaching resources for sixth-form mathematicsUnderground Mathematics is the culmina-tion of a five-year project funded by thegovernment’sDepartmentforEducationanddelivered by the University of Cambridge’sFacultyofMathematics.The new website offers hundreds of freeteaching resources to help make A-Levelmathematics a ‘richer, more coherent andmorestimulatingexperienceforstudentsandteachersalike’.Moreinformationisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/zobdglc.

Assessment of problem solvingThe Advisory Committee on MathematicsEducation (ACME) has published a reporttitled Problem solving in mathematics: realising the vision through better assessment.

InthereportACMEconsidersthe‘desirablecharacteristics of questions used to assessproblem solving and sets out actions forpolicymakers, awarding organisations andthe mathematics community to improvethe quantity and quality of problem solvingin mathematics tests and assessments’. Thefull report is available at http://tinyurl.com/h6hbwkc.

Speech at ACME conferenceThe Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, addresseddelegates at the Advisory Committee onMathematics Education (ACME) conference,heldat theRoyalSocietyon12 July2016.Atranscriptofthespeechisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/hwcxgmg.

OTHERNew government departments and MinistersFollowing the creation of the new Depart-ment for Business, Energy and IndustrialStrategy(BEIS)theRtHonGregClarkMPhasbeenappointedSecretaryofState.JoJohnsonMP,remainsasMinisterofStateforUniversi-ties, Science,Researchand Innovation.Moreinformation is availableathttp://tinyurl.com/hlyhamrTheRtHonJustineGreeningMPisthenewSecretaryofStateforEducation.

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EU membership and UK scienceThe House of Lords Science and Technol-ogySelectCommitteehaslaunchedashortfollow-up investigation on EU member-ship and UK Science. This short investiga-tion will focus on people, facilities andfunding.TheCommitteeseeksevidenceonthe science dimension of the negotiations

onleavingtheEUandtoidentifyanywideractions which will be needed in the shortand medium terms to ensure that scienceintheUKcancontinuetoflourish.Morein-formation isavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/znjkd9d.

DrJohnJohnstonJointPromotionofMathematics

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EUROPEAN NEWS

Thefollowing itemsaremostly fromtheEuropean Mathematical Society (EMS)webpagewww.euro-math-soc.eu/news.

Turkey: EMS protests against persecutionsMore than a thousand participantsof the Seventh European Congress ofMathematics, the largest profession-al meeting of mathematicians on ourcontinent, representing a communitytens of thousands strong, took the op-portunity of the Congress's closingceremony to protest against the currenttreatment of academics by the Turkishgovernment. The government-imposedtravellingbanhadadirectimpactonthescientific programme of the Congress,as valued participants were unable toattend.Worse,manymembersofthesci-entific community have been dismissedfrom their jobs andwill face further re-strictions of their basic rights; the justi-fications for these infringements appearmore than dubious. Such violations ofhuman rights generally, and to scien-tists and teachers inparticular,occurredrepeatedly over the last century, in anumber of countries.We all know theirtragicconsequences.We express our solidarity with ourTurkish colleagues and demand that theTurkishauthorities treat their citizens inaccordance with internationally recog-nisedstandardsofliberty.

H2020 grant successAn application from the mathematicalcommunityfinallymadeitintheEuropeanCommission'sHorizon 2020programmeonuser-driven e-infrastructure innovation.TheproposalMSO4SC - Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization for Societal Challenges with Scientific Computing wasapprovedon15 July2016. Sevencountries– Spain, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands,Norway, Sweden and France – within theframework of the European initiative EU-MATHS-IN joined forces to construct an e-infrastructure in the Cloud for Modeling, Simulation and Optimization thatprovides,in a user-driven, integrative way, tailoredaccess to the necessary services, resourcesand tools. See www.cemosis.fr/projects/mso4sc/.

EMS Council 2016One of the most important tasks of theCouncil of the European MathematicalSociety that convened at the HumboldtUniversity in Berlin during the weekend16-17 July 2016 was the renewal of theEMS Executive Committee (EC). VolkerMehrmann (Berlin; 2017-18) and ArmenSergeev (Moscow; 2017-20) were electedas new Vice-Presidents of the society by avastmajorityofthedelegates.Itwasmuchmore difficult to determine the composi-tionofthemembersat largeoftheECforthe next four years. Thirteen renownedmathematicians stood as candidates for


25BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS NEWSThe papers of the late historian of math-ematics and former BSHM President, IvorGrattan-Guinness, including his extensivecorrespondence, have been provisionallysortedandarenowinthesafekeepingoftheArchiveofAmericanMathematicians(AAM)based at theUniversity of Texas, inAustin.TheAAMisrunninganappealforfundssothat that the papers can now be properlycataloguedandarchivedinordertoprovideamajorresourceforpeopleworkingonthehistoryofmathematics.Uptonowhalfthetarget of $10,000 has been reached, andmembers of the BSHM who would like tocontributearekindly requested in thefirstinstance to contact the Council Secretary,FennySmith([email protected]).The followingaredetailsof themeetingsfortherestofthisyear.Mathematical Biography: A Celebration of MacTutor, St Andrew’s University, 16-17September 2016. The programme andon-linebookingareavailableathttp://www.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/mathbiog/.Curves in Honour of Leibniz’s Tercentenary,Gresham College, London, Thursday 27

October2016.Asusual,althoughtheeventis free, it will be necessary to book yourplace and secure a ticket via the GreshamCollege website at http://tinyurl.com/hma9np9. Themeeting is administeredbyGreshamCollegeandnotBSHM;theeventisverypopular,opentothegeneralpublicandplaces are limited. Every year thismeetingsellsoutquiteearly.Thusdisappointmentisinevitableforanymemberwhoeitherleavesbookingverylateorseeksentryonthedaywithoutaticket.Ifyouintendtocome,youarestronglyadvisedtotakeactionnow.Aslastyear, theSociety’sAGMwillbeheldatBirkbeckCollegeintheearlyafternoonpriortothisevent.BSHM Christmas Meeting,BMI,Birmingham,3December2016.Programmeandbookingarrangementswillbepostedonthewebsiteshortly.Most meetings can be now booked andpaid for on-line. Participants are encour-agedtobookbythissimplemethodsoonerrather than later. Full details are on thewebsite at www.bshm.ac.uk including anumberofnon-BSHMmeetings.

election, and two rounds of voting werenecessary to come to the conclusion thatthe followingfivewere selectedby the80voting delegates: Betül Tanbay (Istanbul),Vicente Muñoz (Madrid), Beatrice Pelloni(Edinburgh),StefanJackowski(Warsaw)andNicolaFusco(Naples).PresidentPavelExner,Treasurer Mats Gyllenberg and SecretarySjoerdVerduynLunelwillcontinuetoservetheEMSinthesecapacitiesuntil2018.

8ECM 2020 at PortorozThesecondimportantdecisiontobetakenby the delegates of the Council of theEuropean Mathematical Society was thechoiceofthelocationofthenextEuropean

Congress of Mathematics in 2020. Delega-tions from the two bidders Seville (Spain)and Portoroz (Slovenia) presented two at-tractiveproposalstotheEMSCouncilon17July 2016. Theoutcomeof the subsequentvote was that European mathematicianswillmeet for the8ECMinPortorozduringtheweek5to11July2020(www.8ecm.si).

Brexit bluesOne way to combat any withdrawalsymptomswouldbe to join theEMSasanindividual member: see www.euro-math-soc.eu/individual-membersfordetails.

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News, Reports

GEOFFREY SHEPHARDProfessor Geoffrey C. Shephard, who waselectedamemberoftheLondonMathemati-cal Society on 15 February 1952, died on 3August2016,aged88.Followinga verygenerousdonationmadeby Professor Shephard, the London Math-ematical Society in 2015 introduced a newprize.Theprize,knownastheShephardPrizeis awarded biennially. The first ShephardPrize was awarded to Professor Keith BallFRS (University of Warwick) in 2015. TheShephard Prize is awarded for making a

contribution to mathematics with a strongintuitivecomponent,whichcanbeexplainedto thosewith littleornoknowledgeofuni-versitymathematics, though thework itselfmay involvemore advanced ideas. ProfessorShephard’s main fields of interest were inconvex geometry and tessellations. Hewasoneofthelongest-standingmembersoftheLMS, having givenmore than sixty years ofmembership.It is anticipated that an obituary will bepublishedintheLMS Newsletter induecourse.

INFORMAL MEETING BETWEEN THE DMV AND THE LMS Report

On 18 July 2016, during the 7th EuropeanCongressofMathematics(ECM)inBerlin,thePresidium of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) invited six members oftheLMSCounciltoaworkingdinner,duringwhichweweretolearnmoreaboutourtwoSocietiesandexplorepossiblecommonareasofconcern.VolkerBach,ChristianBär,WolframKoepf,JürgKramerandMichaelRöckner attendedfrom theDMV, andTonyGardiner, StephenHuggett,BeatricePelloni,IainStewart,SimonTavaréandAlinaVdovinafromtheLMS.Amongthemanyissuesdiscussedwerethefollowing:• Theproblemofgame-playingandcon-sequentdistortionanddamagetoourresearchlandscaperesultingfromevalu-ationssuchastheResearchExcellenceFramework(REF),andthepotentialformoreofthesameforourteachingfromtheTeachingExcellenceFramework(TEF).

• TheLMS’sintentiontoencourageunder-graduatestobecomemembersoftheSociety.

• TheDMV’sHigh School Graduate Prizes,ofwhichabout3,500areawardedeachyear.

• Thesharedconcernabouttransitionfromschooltouniversity:inGermanytherearetransitioncoursesinSeptemberbeforethesemesterbegins.

• ThepatterninGermanywherebyalmostallmathematicsdepartmentslivefromhavingtwocategoriesofstudents:(a)thoseaimingtodoanacademicmajor,and(b)thoseaimingtobecometeachers,whotakesomeofthesamecourses.

• ThescientificprogrammeoftheECM,inparticularhowtoincluderecentdevelop-mentsinthesubjectwhileavoidingmak-ingtheprogrammetoosensitivetoshiftsandswingsinfashion.Theelephantintheroom(this isunfairtoelephants)was theBritish exit from theEU.Note that the meeting was arranged wellbefore the UK referendum, but of coursemuchofourdiscussionfocussedonpossibleconsequences. The meeting underlined fortheLMSdelegationtheimportanceofmain-tainingandimprovingourunderstandingofandgoodrelationswithoursisterSocietiesinEurope,andweareverygratefultoourhostsfortheirinvitationandhospitality.

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7ECM PANEL SESSIONHow to get your papers published – meet the Editors

A panel session on this topic was hostedbytheLMSonWednesday20July2016,atthe 7th European Congress of Mathemat-ics inBerlin,withtheaimofaidingunder-standingbetween early career researchersand those making editorial decisions formathematicaljournals.Theeventattractedabout forty early career (and not so earlycareer)mathematicians,journaleditorsandrepresentatives ofmathematics publishers.Themaintopicsdiscussedincludedhowtochoosetheright journal forapaper,whataretheeditors’thoughtprocessesandper-spectiveswhenselectingpapersforaccept-ance, what should an author do if thereareproblemsordelays in thepeer reviewprocess,andhowmightanauthorimprovetheir chances of getting their paperacceptedforpublication.Variousremarksweremaderegardingthedual purpose that a publication fulfils foran author: todisseminate their ideas, andto position the author for appointmentsand promotions. This gave rise to a livelydiscussion where some lamented that the

latter was perhaps becoming the chief (ifnot only) purpose of publishing. In thiscontext, the choice of journal had turnedintoafinebalancingact:nottooverreachand be rejected; not to undersell and beaccepted by a journal with lower reputa-tionwhich couldharm theauthor’s careeraspirations.Some authors may have been surprisedby the great emphasis and importanceassignedby thepanelofeditors toawell-written introduction and an accurate andcompletelistofreferences.Themainpointwas that shortcomings here serve as ‘redflags’loweringtheeditors’expectationsinreadingtherestofthepaperandalertingtheeditorstolookforfurtherflaws.Thepanelwas chairedby Professor JohnHunton,theLMSPublicationsSecretary,andincluded Professor Karen Vogtmann (Uni-versityofWarwick),ProfessorRadhaKessar(CityUniversity,London)andProfessorCarlesCasacuberta(UniversityofBarcelona).

DrOlaTörnkvistEditorialManager,LMS

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LMS POPULAR LECTURES 2016BIRMINGHAM (University of Birmingham) 21st September 18:30

Heather Harrington (University of Oxford)The Shape of Data in BiologyIn recent years, areas of pure mathematics (maths for maths’ sake) such as algebra, geometry and topology, are being applied to problems in biology. Dr Harrington will describe how to understand living systems

using cutting-edge mathematics.

Julia Wolf (University of Bristol)One, Two, Red, Blue

Ever wondered why noughts and crosses always results in a draw? In this talk Dr Wolf will explore the surprisingly

deep mathematics behind this popular game and its variants.

Commences at 6.30 pm, refreshments at 7.30 pm, ends at 9.00 pm.

Admission is free, with ticket. Register by Thursday 15 September.

Register online at www.lms.ac.uk/events/popular-lectures

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LMS POPULAR LECTURES 2016Report

On29 June 2016 the Instituteof Educationin London hosted the 2016 LMS PopularLectures.Adiverseaudience,includingmanystudents,enjoyedaneveningofmathematicswithtopicsrangingfromtheuseofdata inbiologytoplayingnoughtsandcrosses.Dr Heather Harrington from the Univer-sity of Oxford kicked off the evening withThe Shape of Data in Biology.Shecomparedthe spread of a biological contagion withthe spread of the ice bucket challenge onFacebook.Howmanyofyourfriendsneededtotakepartinthechallengebeforeyouwerepromptedtotakepartyourself,ifatall?ThisanalogygaveourYear12 students abetterunderstanding of mathematical modelling,andhowmathematicalnetworkscanbeusedtomodelthisbehaviour.After the break, Dr Julia Wolf from theUniversityofBristolhadusplayingnoughts

andcrosseswithhertalkOne, Two, Red, Blue.Not the usual game, of course, but largergrids in higher dimensions. She used thecardgameSET todemonstratehowtoplayin fourdimensionsand itwas refreshing toseeteenagersengagedinacardgameratherthan a phone app. The pursuit of winningstrategies for these gamesmay seem trivial,however the methods developed to solvethem have been used in other problemssuch as understanding large and complexnetworks.The evening was enjoyable and informa-tive.Ourstudentsappreciatedlearninghowmathematics is used beyond the classroomandwearelookingforwardtoareturnvisitnextyear.

LouisaYenaSecondinChargeofMathematicsStFrancisXavierCollege,London

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LMS NORTHERN REGIONAL MEETINGReport

An LMS Northern Regional Meeting washosted in the Mathematics Department oftheUniversityofManchesterinJunethisyear.The scope of the meeting was Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications,and what resulted was an extremely pleas-urable event. Over the two days around55 people attended, many of whom werestudents and most of whom had travelledfromotheruniversitiestojoinusinManches-ter.TheofficialLMSmeetingtookplaceontheafternoonofThursday23JuneandconsistedofplenarytalksfromProfessorsSanjuVelani(York)andJulienBarral(Paris13).Therewasalso apublic lecturedeliveredbyDrHennaKoivusalo(York).Thesetalkswereverywell-receivedandappropriateforthebroadscopeofthemeeting.Velanispokeonrecentandon-going progress in Diophantine approxi-mation,which brought in connectionswithnumber theory and hyperbolic geometry.Barralspokeonthefinestructureofcertainprojectedmeasures connectedwithMandel-brot percolation and Mandelbrot cascades.This talk was more probabilistic in natureand also had links to fractal geometry anddimensiontheory.Finally,thepubliclecture

concernedaperiodicorderinconnectionwithquasi-crystals.Over the rest of the two-day workshop,therewereafurthertwoplenarytalksgivenbyProfessors IanMelbourne (Warwick) andDe-Jun Feng (Chinese University of Hong

Kong). Melbourne discussed theinfamous Lorentz attractor and,in particular, the recent break-through that it is exponentiallymixing. Feng spoke on exactdimensionality of self-affinemeasuresand,notably,announcedamajor,asyetunpublished,resultofhisthatanyself-affinemeasureis exactdimensional and satisfiesthe well-studied Ledrappier-Young formula. Therewerealsonine contributed talksonawiderange of topics including statisti-calstability,groupactions,escaperates and spectral theory. Ad-ditionally, the meeting providedample opportunity for collabora-

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tion and extra-curricular discussions, whichoftenwentonintotheevening.Theconference receptionwasheldon theAtrium Bridge in the Alan Turing buildingandwas followedby the conferencedinnerinEastZeast;anold favouriteof the facultyinManchester.Wewerejoinedatthedinnerby LMS representatives Iain Stewart, Fiona

NixonandElizabethFisher.The webpage for the conference can befound at: http://tinyurl.com/h95ljhj andincludesphotosfromtheevent,thescheduleitself,alongwithtitlesandabstracts,andtheconferenceposter.

JonathanFraserUniversityofStAndrews

RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS AT LMS MEETINGSORDINARY MEETING, 23 JUNE 2016heldattheUniversityofManchesteraspartoftheNorthernRegionalMeetingandWorkshoponDynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications.Over50membersandvisitorswerepresentforallorpartofthemeeting.

Themeetingbeganat1.20pmwiththeProgrammeSecretary,ProfessorIainA.Stewart,intheChair.

Therewere20memberselectedtomembershipatthisSocietyMeeting.Sixmemberswereelectedto Associate membership: Matthew Dawes, Gareth Davies, Ruadhai Dervan, Ana Rojo, WilliamRushworthandSachavanTienhoven.ElevenmemberswereelectedtoOrdinarymembership:WindaCharlesAkatch,PeterD.Allen,PritpalSinghChadha,StevenGreen,VicGrout,JayapalRavi,EnricoScalas,HideyasuShimadzu,DanielShiu,FionaSkermanandSimonStringer.ThreememberswereelectedtoReciprocitymembership:GregMinshall,AjitIqbalSinghandGeorgeYiannakopoulos.

ThreememberssignedtheMembers'BookandwereadmittedtotheSociety.

DrJonathanFraserintroducedalecturegivenbyProfessorSanjuVelani(York)onDiophantine Ap-proximation in Kleinian Groups: Extremality and All That.

Aftertea,DrFraserintroducedalecturegivenbyProfessorJulienBarral(Paris13)onProjections of Planar Mandelbrot Measures.

DrFraserthenintroducedthePublicLecturegivenbyDrHennaKoivusalo(York)onA Short History of Aperiodic Order - From Crystals to Quasicrystals.

TheProgrammeSecretary,ProfessorStewart,expressedthethanksoftheSocietytothespeakersandtoJonathanFraserforputtingonsuchawonderfulmeeting.

Afterwards,thereceptionwasheldintheAlanTuringBuildingandtheSocietyDinnerwasheldatanearbyrestaurant,EastZeast.

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SCOTTISH PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS COLLOQUIUMReportThe 4th Scottish Partial Differential Equations Colloquium (SPDEC 2016) tookplace from9 to 10 June 2016 at theUni-versity of Dundee, as part of a series ofannualmeetings.Theprimaryaimofthismeeting, and the SPDEC series at large,is to bring together young researchers,mostly from Scotland, and experts fromtheUKandabroadwhosework featuresPDEs and their analysis and applications.Wearehappytoreportthatthisgoalwasfulfilled,andtheSPDEC2016wasagreatsuccess.The colloquium included four plenarytalks given by Professor Sir John Ball(Oxford), Professor Willi Jäger (Heidel-berg), Professor CharalambosMakridakis(Sussex) and Professor Barbara Nietham-mer (Bonn), 15 invited talks given byyoung researchers from six Scottish andthree English universities, and 14 posterpresentations given by 13 PhD students,

fromfiveScottishandtwoEnglishuniver-sities, and one lecturer. The plenary andinvited talks and poster presentationscovered a wide range of research areasrelated to the analysis and numericalanalysis of PDEs, Scientific Computing,Stochastic PDEs and Multiscale Analysis.Titles and abstracts of the plenary andinvited talks, as well as titles of theposter presentations, can be found onthewebsiteofSPDEC2016atwww.maths.dundee.ac.uk/spdec2016/index.shtml.The Colloquium was supported by theLondon Mathematical Society Confer-ence grant, the Edinburgh Mathemati-cal Society Research Support Fund, theGlasgow Mathematical Journal LearningandResearch Support Fund, and theUni-versityofDundee.

IreneKyzaandMariyaPtashnykDivisionofMathematicsUniversityofDundee

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LMS HARDY LECTURER JACOB LURIE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTERReport

As part of the LMS Hardy Lecture Series,Professor Jacob Lurie from Harvard gave alectureon30June2016attheUniversityofLeicester onWeil's Conjecture for Function Fields.ProfessorLuriereportedonhisspectacularrecent breakthrough with Dennis Gaitsgory,also at Harvard, on their proof of theWeilConjecture on Tamagawa numbers for

algebraicgroupsGoverfunctionfields. Hestarted by giving a fascinating overview oftheoriginalconjectureasstatedfornumberfields.TheWeilconjectureonTamagawanumberssaysthattheTamagawanumberofasimplyconnected algebraic group defined over anumberfieldis1.WeilhimselfcalculatedtheTamagawanumber inmany special cases in

JacobLurieandFrankNeumann

IainGillespie,Pro-Vice-ChancellorforResearchandEnterprise,UniversityofLeicester

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Thissummer,eighteenstudentsattheUniver-sityofBathspenttheholidayperiodgainingvaluable mathematical research experienceandgettingafeelforwhatacareerinsciencehastooffer.ParticipatingintheInstituteforMathematicalInnovation’s(IMI)Undergradu-ate Research Internship Programme, the

studentsspentupto10weeksworkingonaresearchprojectsupervisedbyacademicstaffattheUniversityofBath.The IMI research internship programmefillsan importantgapbetweenundergradu-ate and PhD studywhere studentsmust beable to work independently. Importantly,

the programme also givesstudents an opportunity toresearchaspecifictopicandestablish a closer relation-ship with faculty members,whotheycanuseasrefereeswhen applying for futurejobs.Three of the studentstaking part in the researchinternshipprogramme, LudiWang, Anvarbek Atayevand Paul Russell, receivedan Undergraduate ResearchBursary from the LondonMathematicalSociety(LMS).

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1959. Several authors then checked this inothercases.Forexample,LanglandsshoweditforChevalleygroupsin1966,Laiextendedthe cases further to all quasisplit reductivegroups in 1980 and finally Kottwitz andChernousovsettleditfinallyforallgroupsattheendofthe1980s.InthesecondpartofhislectureProfessorLurieindicatedtheideasandchallengestoprooftheWeilConjecturefor algebraic groups over function fields.Contrary to other problems, the functionfield case is actually more challenging andthe impressiveworkby Lurie andGaitsgoryintroducesmanynewgroundbreakingideas,likenonabelianPoincaredualityandfactori-sation homology based on a thorough un-derstanding of the topology of themoduli

stackofprincipalG-bundlesoveranalgebraiccurvetosettlethefunctionfieldcaseoftheWeilConjecture.ThelectureofProfessorLuriewasverywellattendedbymorethansixtymathematicians.Besides the local mathematics faculty andtheir graduate students, many mathemati-ciansandstudentsfromtheMidlandsregionalso attended. Professor Iain Gillespie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterpriseof the University of Leicester, introducedthe speaker and the lecture was followedbyareceptionwiththeeventendingwithadinnerinalocalSouthIndianrestaurant.

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Speaking of her experience of doing aresearchinternship,LudiWangsaid:"Doinga research internship has been a great op-portunity for me to explore a topic whichis considered too risky for coursework. Notonly have I gained first-hand experience ofdoing research in a topic that is related tomyEconomicsstudies,butIcouldalsofitthework in around the other things I did thissummerastheprogrammewasflexible.”Anvarbek Atayev, who also received anLMS bursary, added: “Duringmy internship,I learnt how to usemathematics to solve areal-world problem and research the litera-tureonmyown,whichhasgivenmemoreconfidenceintermsofdoingaPhD”.Alongside their research, this year’s un-

dergraduate students received training inacademic report writing and referencing,andhowtotypesetmathematicsusingLaTeX.TheyalsometPhDstudentsfromtheEPSRCCentre for Doctoral Training in StatisticalAppliedMathematics (SAMBa) to hear first-handwhat it is likestartingout inresearch.Studentswere alsooffered theopportunitytojoinajournalclubtolearnhowtoanalyseandinterpretmathematicalresearchpapers.Alongside the LMS, the IMI research in-ternship programme was supported bySAMBaandtheBiotechnologyandBiologicalSciencesResearchCouncil(BBSRC).

SanneTerryMarketing&CommunicationsOfficer,IMI

UniversityofBath

RANDOM MATRIX THEORY BRUNEL-BIELEFELD WORKSHOPThe 12th Brunel-Bielefeld Workshop onRandomMatrixTheory (RMT)and itsappli-cationswill take place at BrunelUniversityLondonfrom9to10December2016.Thisisatwo-dayinternationaleventthatbuildsonaseriesofRMTworkshopsorganisedbytheMathematicalPhysicsgroupatBruneleveryyear since 2005, and jointly on a two-yearrotation schedule with Bielefeld Univer-sity (Germany) since 2011. This event aimsto bring together an international groupof leading researchers in RMT and relatedareasofprobability theoryandmathemati-calphysics,withparticularfocusonconnec-tions toboth traditionalandnovelapplica-tions, such as statistical physics, complexnetworks, big data and machine learning.The program of theworkshopwill includeinvited talks and a poster session witharound 15 to 20 contributed posters. Theinvitedspeakersare:• RomainCouillet(Paris)• FabioCunden(Bristol)• BenjaminFahs(Louvain)

• TamaraGrava(Trieste)• AliceGuionnet(Lyon)• AlexanderIts(Indianapolis)• BorisKhoruzhenko(London)• HolgerKoesters(Bielefeld)• GaultierLambert(Stockholm)• AnnaMaltsev(Bristol)• ArisMoustakas(Athens)• AlexanderOssipov(Nottingham)• NinaSnaith(Bristol)• MartinVenker(Bielefeld)• OlegZaboronski(Warwick)Deadline for requesting participationis 1 November 2016. A registration fee of£40 (£20 for PhD students) applies to allworkshop participants. Some funding isavailable for young researches presentinga poster. Additional information, includinghowtoregister,canbefoundonthework-shop'swebsiteathttp://tinyurl.com/hcqpnr9or by contacting any of the organisers:Gernot Akemann ([email protected]), Igor Krasovsky ([email protected]),DmitrySavin([email protected]), Igor Smolyarenko ([email protected]). The workshop issupported by an LMS Conference grant,DAAD (Germany) and the Department ofMathematicsatBrunel.


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TheAustralian Mathematical Societythisyearcelebratesits60thanniversary.Formostofits60 years it hashada reciprocity agreementwith the LMS. This agreement enables LMSmemberstoobtaindiscountsontheSociety’sthree journals, the Journal of the Austral-ian Mathematical Society, the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society andtheANZIAM Journal, aswell as theAustral-ian Mathematical Society Lecture Series, allpublishedfortheSocietybyCambridgeUni-versityPress.TheSociety’sGazette,whichhasmanysimilaritieswiththeLMS Newsletter,isavailable freely online at www.austms.org.au/gazette.The Society welcomes members from allbranches of the mathematical sciences andhas two Divisions, ANZIAM and ANZAMP,for those with interests in industrial andapplied mathematics (ANZIAM) or math-ematical physics (ANZAMP). These Divisionsalso include members from New Zealand.In addition to holding an annual confer-ence, the Society supports regularmeetingsorganised by its Divisions and by variousSpecial Interest Groups within the Society.Jointly with the Australian MathematicalSciences Institute (AMSI) it also supportsSpecial Interest Meetings. These meetingsareopen toall, although thereare reducedregistration fees for Society members. Thisyear, in collaboration with AMSI and in cel-ebration of our 60th anniversary, there aretwo specialmeetingsadjoining theSociety’s

annualconference.TheresultingMathsfestispublicisedontheoppositepage:membersoftheLMSareverywelcomeattheseevents.TheSociety’stwomajorawardsforabodyofworkbymembers of the Society are theAustralian Mathematical Society Medal, in-troduced in1981,fordistinguishedresearchinthemathematicalsciencesbythoseunder40, and the George Szekeres Medal, intro-duced in 2002, for a sustained outstandingcontribution to research in the mathemati-cal sciences. Inaddition, in2011 theSocietyintroduced the Gavin Brown Prize, for anoutstandingandinnovativepieceofresearchin the mathematical sciences published bya member or members of the Society. Thepastwinners of these awards canbe foundathttp://tinyurl.com/ju9g86r(AustMSMedal),http://tinyurl.com/zv3bvvm (GeorgeSzekeresMedal)andhttp://tinyurl.com/zkfb7nl(GavinBrownPrize).In2016,theSocietywillintroducetheMa-honey-Neumann-Room Prize, named afterthe inaugural editors of its three journals.This prize, for the author or authors ofan article in the mathematical sciencespublished in one of the three journals, is

not restricted tomembers of theSociety. The Society’s Councilhopes that many members ofthe LMS will continue to choosetopublisharticles inour journalsandhencebecomeeligibleforthisprizeinfutureyears.Further information on theSociety can be found on thewebsite www.austms.org.au orfrom the secretary, Peter Stacey([email protected]).

PeterStaceyHonorarySecretary

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MATHS FEST 2016

The Australian Mathematical SciencesInstitute (AMSI) and the Australian Math-ematical Society are organising a 3-in-1event in Canberra, Australia in November/December. The three events collectively arebeingcalledMathsFest2016andthedetailsoftheindividualeventsareasfollows:

Advances in Ergodic Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics & Statistical LawTheAustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,ACT,Australia28November-2December2016This workshop brings together Australianand international researchers interested intheoretical and applied areas of dynamicalsystems, ergodic theory and probability,with expertise in topics such as hyperbolicdynamics,thermodynamicformalism,statisti-calpropertiesofdynamicalsystems,quantumergodicity, infinite-dimensional ergodictheory, stochastic processes, data assimila-tionandcomputationaldynamics.Forfurtherdetailssee:http://tinyurl.com/zq7t82p.

60th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical SocietyTheAustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,ACT,Australia5-8December2016The 60th annualmeeting of the AustralianMathematicalSocietywillfeatureanimpres-sive list of both international and domesticspeakers and will be hosted by the Math-ematical Sciences Institute at theAustralianNational University. For further details see:http://tinyurl.com/gmm6y2e.

Nonlinear and Geometric Partial Differential EquationsTheAustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,ACT,Australia9-13December2016This workshop gathers Australian and in-ternational researchers in the areas ofgeometric analysis and geometric andnonlinear partial differential equations,

rangingfromgeometricvariationalproblemssuch as minimal surfaces, harmonic mapsand the theory of optimal mass transport,to geometric flows such asmean curvatureflowandRicciflow,andaspectsofgeometricPDEincludingeigenvalueproblemsandisop-erimetricinequalities.Forfurtherdetailssee:http://tinyurl.com/zjfuvr7.

MATHEMATICS IN THE REGIONS AND NATIONSTheOpenUniversity ispleasedtoannounceaninauguraltwo-dayconferencetocelebratethecontributionsoftheuniversity'sregionalacademicstoresearchandscholarshipinthemathematical sciencesand its teaching.Thiseventadditionallymarkstheappointmentinrecentyearsoffournewstafftutorsinmath-ematics and statistics – Carol Calvert, ChrisHughes,SuePawleyandKatrineRogers–andis supported by the London MathematicalSocietyunder theCelebratingNewAppoint-mentsgrant.The external speakers are: GiampaoloD’Alessandro (Southampton), AndrewJenkins(UCL),JonathanWattis(Nottingham)andBenWells(Schlumberger).The event will take place from 13 to 15October 2016 in Christodoulou MeetingRoom 15 on the Open University campusin Milton Keynes. Attendance is open toeveryone and there is no registration fee,butparticipantsareaskedtoregisteronthewebsite by 15 September 2016 for cateringpurposes. Further details, including ascheduleonceavailable,canbefoundontheevent’swebsite:https://sites.google.com/site/mathsintheregions.

SHEFFIELD PROBABILITY DAYThe Sheffield Probability Day will takeplace onWednesday 21 September 2016 inLectureTheatre10,HicksBuilding.Thisyear’sSheffieldProbabilityDayisdedicatedtothememoryofJoeGani(1924-2016),thefounder


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oftheAppliedProbabilityTrust.Thelectureswillbegivenby:• AntalJárai(Bath)at2.15pm

Sum of inverse powers of Poisson distances• JanSwart(UTIA)at3.45pmThe2016AppliedProbabilityTrustLectureSelf-organised criticality on the stock marketTeaandcoffeewillbeavailableat3.15pminRoomI15,HicksBuilding.Allarewelcome.For further informationcontactEmmaTalib(tel.01142223924,email:[email protected]). The meeting is supported by theAppliedProbabilityTrust.

DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTABILITY THEORYA Meeting in Memory of Barry Cooper

AmeetinginmemoryofBarryCooper,whodiedlastautumn,willbeheldIntheSchoolof Mathematics, University of Leeds, onSaturday17September2016.AllfriendsandformerstudentsofBarry's,aswellasanyoneinterestedinMathematicalLogic,iswelcometoattend.ThefocuswillbeonComputabilityTheory,particularlywithreferencetoBarry'swork.Barrywas a central figure in the study ofComputability Theory in the UK, and hada large number of research students andpostdoctoral assistants. He was a foundingmember and president of the AssociationComputabilityinEurope(CiE).Inrecentyears,healsoachievedahighprofilebecauseofhiswork in promoting awareness of the AlanTuringCentenary.The meeting will consist of four talksfollowedbyadinnerintheevening,togetherwith a jazz performance. (Barry was afounderandkeenmemberoftheLeedsJazzClub).Thespeakersare:• MaratArslanov(KazanStateUniversity)• AndrewLewis-Pye(LondonSchoolofEconomics)

• TheodoreA.Slaman(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)

• AndreaSorbi(UniversityofSiena)

You are invited to register as soon aspossible. There is no registration fee, buta contribution will be requested for thosecoming to the dinner. Information on regis-trationandfurtherdetailsofthemeetingcanbefoundatthewebpage:http://tinyurl.com/jhddyxk. Current and recent PhD studentsare encouraged to attend. The organisersmaybeabletoprovidemodesttravelgrantsforthese.(Pleaserefertothewebpage.)The meeting is organised by CharlesHarris ([email protected]), John Truss([email protected]) and Stan Wainer([email protected]), supported by theSchool of Mathematics, University of LeedsandtheBritishLogicColloquium.

ONE DAY FUNCTION THEORY MEETINGTheOne Day Function Theory Meeting willbe held at De Morgan House, London, onMonday12September2016.Thisisanannualmeeting of complex analysts and functiontheorists.Thespeakersare:• AlanBeardon(UniversityofCambridge)• EleanorLingham(SheffieldHallamUniversity)

• EugeniaMalinnikova(NorwegianUniver-sityofScience&Technology)

• Patrick,TuenWaiNg(UniversityofHongKong)

• JoaquimOrtega-Cerdà(UniversityofBarcelona)

• LeticiaPardoSimón(UniversityofLiverpool)Theeventisopentoall.Thereisnoneedtoregisterinadvance,althoughthereisasmallregistrationfee,payableontheday,whichiswaivedfortheretiredorunemployed.Thereis some support available for travel for UKstudents without other means of support -contact the organisers for information. Thecontactdetailsoftheorganisersandfurtherdetails of the event can be found on themeeting website https://sites.google.com/site/functiontheorymeeting.ThemeetingissupportedbyanLMSConfer-encegrant.


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STRUCTURE OF OPERATOR ALGEBRAS: SUBFACTORS AND FUSION CATEGORIES23 – 27 January 2017

inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeOperator Algebras: Subfactors and their Applications(9January–23June2017)

Theopeningworkshopwillfocusonintroducingthetheoreticfoundationsofthesixmonthprogramme.Inparticular,theworkshopwillfeaturebothalgebraicandanalyticaspectsof subfactorsand fusioncategories, including theclassificationof low indexsubfactors,modulartensorcategoriesandtheirmodulecategories,butalsoexposingtheinfinitedepth,infiniteindexsubfactorsandexploitingfreeprobabilityandplanaralgebras.

Nonunitaryandnon-semisimplefusionsystemsarecomingtothefore (e.g. relatedto logarithmic conformal field theories) being studied through non-unitary Leavittalgebras.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitewww.newton.ac.uk/event/oasw01

Closing date for receipt of applications 27 October 2016.

VISIT OF OLEG SMOLYANOVProfessor Oleg Smolyanov (Moscow StateUniversity) will be visiting the UK from 31October to 26 November 2016. He is bestknownforhismanycontributionstoinfinitedimensional analysis, and more recently tomeasure theory in topologicalvector spaces,and consequent understanding of Feynmanintegrals and transformations. ProfessorSmolyanovwillgive(atleast)threeseminarsduringhisstayasfollows:• Thursday10November,ImperialCollegeLondon:Feynman path integrals and quantum anomalies;contactDimitryTu-raev([email protected])

• Thursday17November,UniversityofManchester:Noether theorems and quan-tum anomalies; contactJamesMontaldi([email protected])

• Wednesday23November,Aberystwyth

University:Noether type theorems;contactJohnGough([email protected])For further information contact JamesMontaldi ([email protected]).ThevisitispartiallyfundedbyanLMSScheme2grant.

VISIT OF IGOR VELCICDrIgorVelcic(UniversityofZagreb,Croatia)is visiting theUK from 18 September to 17October2016.Heisanexpertincalculusofvariations, especially in homogenisation innonlinearelasticitytheory.Duringhisvisit,DrVelcicwillcollaborateandgivetalksat:• Bath:Monday26September• Cardiff:Monday3October• Oxford:Monday10October• Reading:Tuesday11OctoberForfurtherdetailscontactDrNikosKatzou-rakis([email protected]).ThevisitissupportedbyanLMSScheme2grant.


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MATHEMATICS IN ANCIENT EGYPT: A CONTEXTUAL HISTORYbyAnnetteImhausen,PrincetonUniversityPress,2016,£34.95,US$45.00,ISBN978-0691117133.

The history of mathematics isn't whatit used to be. Especially with respect toancient cultures, through the 1970'sstudies tended to emphasize comprehen-sion of the mathematics within a text,assessments of its sophistication, andparallels to modern techniques. Thesedays, social history has takenover.Whatwas the mathemat-icsusedfor?Howdidit emerge, and howwas it understoodthen? Mathematics in Ancient Egypt is aconscious attempt toapply these new per-spectives to perhapsthe most ancientmathematicalcultureofthemall.We see the differ-ence already in thetable of contents.Whereastheprevioussurvey (Gillings,Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs,1972) structured itschapters by math-ematical topic, thisbook isorganizedbytime period. Whenthat period ismillennia in duration, thisseems appropriate. Imhausen does bringout, as much as the manuscripts allow,growthsanddifferencesbetweenthefivemain periods: prehistoric/early dynastic;theOld,Middle, andNewKingdom;andGreco-Roman.After a brief taste of the Egyptiannumber system in the section on theearlydynasticperiod,Imhausengivesusasampleofarithmetic intheOldKingdominthecontextofsystemsofmeasurement.It is here that we have our first look at

the distinctive system of unit fractions.In her coverage of the Middle KingdomImhausenintroducesthealgorithmicpres-entation of Egyptian problem texts thatshe and Jim Ritter have been promotingas an effectivemedium to reflect the in-tentionsoftheancientwriters.Wesufferfrom a lack of mathematical texts in

the New Kingdom;Imhausen insteadtreats us with aseries of texts thatmention mathemat-ics in thecontextsofstate administration,land measurement,architecture, scribaleducation, art, andwisdom literature.The problems andthe explanations aremore difficult, partlydue to the inceptionof “suprautilitarian”problems that havethe trappings ofpracticaluse,butareclearly mathematicalexercises. Imhausenemphasizes contextover contentthroughout, which

maybejarringtoatraditionalreaderbutplays well into the project of restoring“history”tothehistoryofmathematics.The evidence for Egyptian mathemat-ics is scanty; Imhausen deals with partsof most of those manuscripts that areavailable,whether on papyri, ostraca, orleather rolls. She stresses the valid pointthat the data are likely skewed towardpreservedtextsofteninfunerarycontexts,since theyhavehad thegood fortune tobeburiedindryenvironmentsratherthanwetter settingsclose to theNile thatare


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MATHEMATICAL MINDSETSbyJoBoaler,JohnWiley,2015,pp320,£13.00,€18.20,ISBN:978-0470894521.

Jo Boaler has worked for many years tounderstandtheimpactofschoolstructuresand teaching approaches to the math-ematical progress of students. While thiseasily-readablebookappears tobe aimedprimarily at schoolteachers and sec-ondarily at parents,many of the ideasapply equally well tothose working withundergraduates. Ishould perhaps saythat I have taughtmathematics in bothsecondaryschools (forten years) and univer-sity, and am currentlydeveloping A-levelteachingresourcesforUnderground Math-ematics.In this book, Boalerdraws on the workof Carol Dweck, aprofessor of psychology at Stanford whohasdevelopedatheoryof“mindsets”.Thisisadescriptionofhowindividualsperceivethesourceoftheirabilities:isitinnateand

fixed(givinga“fixedmindset”),orisittheresultofhardworkandpractice (givinga“growth mindset”)? Boaler translates thisinto the mathematical teaching context:manystudentshavea“fixedmindset”with

respect to mathemat-ics, and this is a sig-nificantfactorholdingthem back from pro-gressing. (Inmy ownteachingexperience, Ionce asked a middle-set GCSE group whythey were not goingto get A*s, and thedominant responsewas because theywere “thick”, whiletheyregardedthetopset as “smart”. Unsur-prisingly, they werereluctant to put inmuch effort.) Boaleroffersawholepanoplyof tested techniques

to help students to develop amathemati-calgrowthmindset,andthispervadesthebook.Many of these are now being usedin theUKand theUSA; searchTwitter for

destructive to papyri. Her explanationsarethoroughandgenerallyeasytounder-stand,evenforaninterestedlayperson.Although there is much to learn aboutEgyptian mathematics that is not withinthese pages, Imhausen has succeeded inproducing a clear and innovative intro-duction. Even more importantly, she hasprovidedaclearexampleofhowtowritethe history of mathematics with social

ratherthanmathematicalvalues.Whetheror not her approach is to the reader'staste,shehasdoneaservicebyhelpingtoexpandthehistoryofmathematics“tent”.We now have more available questions,more available sources to answer them,andultimately,morerelevance.

GlenVanBrummelenCameronFriend

QuestUniversity,Canada

ThisisthesecondreviewofthisbookintheLMS Newsletter.Thefirst,byDavidSixsmith,wasintheJulyedition.Inthatreviewheconcentratedonasomewhatcontroversialclaimbytheauthor.JulianGilbeyfeltthatthereareotheraspectsofthisbookthatshouldbeaddressedwhichhehasdoneinhisreview.


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Reviews, Letters to the Editor

hashtags such as #WithMathICan, #Math-Mindsetand#YesUCantoseesomeoftheimpactthisworkisalreadyhaving.Boaler has courted considerable contro-versybypublishingresearchfindingswhichfly in the face of “conventional wisdom”,andwhicharethereforeuncomfortabletomany in the field of education, includingsome in government. She claims, as DaveSixsmith noted in July issue of the LMS Newsletter, that “for the vast majorityof children – about 95% – any levels ofschool math are within their reach”. Thisstatement isprovocative,asBoalerherselfacknowledges, and is incomprehensiblein the majority of UK schools today. Buttherearealreadyexamplesofastonishingstudent progress when different teachingapproaches are used; one unrelated tothis book was recently described by JohnMighton[1].Sothecurrentstatusquomaynotactuallybeanecessarystateofaffairs.Inthisbook,Boalerrepeatsthemessagegiven in her earlier books that settingstudents (called “tracking” in Americanschools) in mathematics is damaging tostudents’ learning, and that there can bebetter progress in heterogeneous groups.Some schools have begun to try this, andthe book offers some interesting casestudies. This does, however, demand afundamental change in thewaywe teachmathematics, moving from a “chalk-and-talk” approach (where the teacher dem-onstrates a method and then studentspractiseit)toamuchricherteachingstyle,with a focus on thinking mathematically,developing understanding of the subjectand building connections between ideas.Which university department or employerwouldnotwantstudentswhohavelearnthow to think mathematically rather thanjusthowto followthe rules?Boalergivesexamples of rich tasks (many taken fromthe NRICH project) which promote richmathematical thinking and offers someideas as to how theymay be used in theclassroom.Boaleralsoaddressessomeotheraspects

ofmathematicseducationinthisbook.Thethemeofequityinmathematicseducation(offering all students the opportunity tosucceed,regardlessofgender,race,andsoon)pervadesthetext;this isanotherareain which she has a strong interest. Thereis also a chapter devoted to effective as-sessment(buildingonthepioneeringworkofPaulBlackandDylanWiliam[2]),whichcontains a variety of practical techniquesforimmediateclassroomuse.One frustrating aspect of the book (atleastforBritishreaders)wastherepeatedsalespitchtotakeheronlinecourse.Thereis also onemajor area inwhich I felt thebook was lacking. Teaching mathematicsinvolves far more than choosing a goodtask: the mathematical understanding ofthe teacher, the questionswhich they ask(ordon’task)ofstudentsduringanactivity,and how they manage group and classdiscussion to elicit mathematical under-standing,arevitaltotheeffectivenessofatask,yetthereisrelativelylittlediscussionof this or acknowledgement of its signifi-cance. Relatedly, there is little on how toconstruct a course using these rich tasksto actually cover an externally-imposedsyllabus (which may be more of a BritishissuethananAmericanone)oronthesig-nificant challenges involved in migratinga school mathematics department fromusingsettingtomixed-abilityteaching.Sobytheendofreadingthebook,Ifeltveryinspired, with ideas for how things couldbedonedifferently,butrealisingthattherewerestillmanyunansweredquestionsandalongjourneyahead.

JulianGilbeyUndergroundMathematicsUniversityofCambridge

References

[1] John Mighton, JUMP Math: Multiplying Potential, Notices of the AMS,February2014,61:2,pp144-147

[2] Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, Inside the Black Box,1998,London:King’sCollege


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LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe G. H. Hardy Reader:editedbyD.J.Albers,G.L.AlexandersonandW.Dunham,CambridgeUniversityPressandMAAPress,2016,pp410,£34.99,US$49.99,ISBN978-1107594647.

Once again: The G.H. Hardy Reader

Almosteverybodyagreesthatmathematicsshouldreachoutforabroaderpublicunderstand-ing.ThereforeThe G.H. Hardy Reader,therichlyillustratedcollectionof38documentsbyandaboutG.H.Hardy, the leadingEnglishmathematicianof thefirstpartof the20thcenturyandamovingspiritintheLMS,shouldbewelcome.TheAmericaneditorsdeliberatelyandexplicitlyaimatabroaderreadershipincludingmathematicsteachersandbeyond.Thedocu-mentationisgenerallyreliablebuttheaimofthebookseemstohavebeenmisinterpretedinthereviewofthebookpublishedintheJulyissueoftheLMS Newsletter.WewelcomethegreatservicetothehistoriographyandpublicawarenessofEnglishmathematicsdone

bytheAmericaneditorsincollaborationwithCambridgeUniversityPress.

JuneBarrow-GreenReinhardSiegmund-Schultze

4August2016

Response

I do not believe that I misinterpreted the aims of theG.H. Hardy Reader.My reviewwas formembersof theSociety,whousuallyhaveadegreeinmathematics,but,likeme,arenothistoriographers.Iobserved(contrarytomyinitialexpectationthatIwouldreceivethebookfromCambridgeUniversityPress inEngland) that theReader was principally published by the Mathematical Asso-ciation ofAmericawith itsmembers inmind, and thatthe levelofmathematics assumedwasnothigher thanhighschoollevel.MayIrepeatthatIwelcomethebook,althoughmydetailedcriticismsremain.

BenGarling12August2016

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Gerald L. Alexanderson

William Dunham

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• Illustrates several viewpoints of symmetry in graphs within a single volume

• Proposes new and unifying approaches to several topics

• One of the few books to contain an extended treatment of the reconstruction problem in graph theory

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