MATHEMATICS: THE WINTON GALLERY OPENS AT THE SCIENCE … · Professor K.A. Brown, FRSE (University of Glasgow) Professor J.P.C. Greenlees (University of Sheffield) Professor R.T

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MATHEMATICS: THE WINTON GALLERY OPENS AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON

On 8 December 2016 the Science Museumopenedapioneeringnewgallerythatexplores

howmathematicians, their tools and ideas havehelpedshapethemodernworldoverthelast400years. Mathematics: The Winton Gallery placesmathematicsattheheartofallourlives,bringing

the subject to life through remarkable stories,artefactsanddesign.More than 100 treasures from the ScienceMuseum’s world-class science, technology, en-gineering and mathematics collections help tellpowerfulstoriesabouthowmathematicalpractice

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ViewoftheHandleyPage‘Gugnunc’aircraftatthecentreofMathematics: The Winton Gallery

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AwardsIMUBreakoutGraduateFellowships..............L’Oréal Fellowships...........................................RamanujanPrize2017......................................

Calendar of Events

LMS ItemsCecilKingTravelScholarship2017–call for nominations......................................

Council Diary.....................................................Council2016-17.................................................DeMorgan House............................................Grant Schemes..................................................HardyLectureshipTour2018–nominationssought.......................................

LongstandingMembers....................................RetiringMembers of Council..........................SpitalfieldsDay–callforproposals...................UndergraduateResearchBursariesinMaths2017.....................................................

LMS MeetingsChristopher Zeeman Lecture...........................Invited Lecturer 2017.......................................MicrolocalAnalysisandApplicationsResearch School.............................................

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MeetingsCowandCalf inCardiff...................................Developing Efficient Methodologies.............GroupActionsandCohomologyINIWorkshop..................................................

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has shapedandbeenshapedbysomeofourmostfundamentalhumanconcerns–includingmoney,trade,travel,war,lifeanddeath.From a beautiful 17th-century Islamicastrolabe that used ancient mathematicaltechniques tomap the night sky to an earlyexample of the famous Enigma machine,designed to resist even the most advancedmathematical techniques for codebreaking,each historical object has an important storyto tell about how mathematics has shapedour world. Archive photography and filmhelpscapturethesestoriesanddigitalexhibitsalongsidekeyobjectsintroducethewiderangeofpeoplewhomade,usedorwereaffectedbyeachmathematicaldevice.DramaticallypositionedatthecentreofthegalleryistheHandleyPage‘Gugnunc’aircraft,built in1929foracompetitiontoconstructasafe aircraft. Ground-breaking aerodynamicresearch influenced the wing design of thisexperimental aircraft, helping transformpublicopinionaboutthesafetyofflyingandsecuring the future of the aviation industry.Thisaeroplanehighlightsperfectlythecentralthemeofthegalleryabouthowmathematicalpracticeisdrivenby,andinfluences,real-worldconcernsandactivities.Mathematics also defines Zaha Hadid Ar-chitects’ design for the gallery. Inspired bythe Handley Page aircraft, the gallery is laidout using principles of mathematics andphysics.Theseprinciplesalsoinformthethree-

dimensional curved surfaces representing thepatternsofairflowthatwouldhavestreamedaroundthisaircraft.PatrikSchumacher,PartneratZahaHadidAr-chitects,recentlynotedthatmathematicswaspartofZahaHadid’slifefromayoungageandwasalwaysthefoundationofherarchitecture,describingthenewmathematicsgalleryas‘animportant part of Zaha’s legacy in London’.GallerycuratorDavidRooney,whowasrespon-sible for the ScienceMuseum’s recent award-winning Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy exhibition, explained that the gallerytells ‘a rich cultural storyofhumanendeavorthathashelpedtransformtheworld’.Themathematicsgallerywasmadepossiblethrough an unprecedented donation fromlong-standingsupportersofscience,DavidandClaudiaHarding.Additional supportwasalsoprovidedbyPrincipalSponsorSamsung,MajorSponsorMathWorksandanumberof individ-ualdonors.A lavishly illustrated new book,Mathemat-

ics: How It Shaped Our World,writtenbyDavidRooneyandpublishedbyScalaArts&HeritagePublishers, accompanies the new display. Itexpandsthestoriescoveredinthegalleryandcontains an absorbing series of newly com-missionedessaysbyprominenthistoriansandmathematicians including June Barrow-Green,JimBennett, Patricia Fara,DameCeliaHoylesand Helen Wilson, with an afterword fromDameZahaHadidwithPatrikSchumacher.


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*Memberscontinuingthesecondyearoftheirtwo-yearelectionin2015.

LMS Nominating Committee AlsoattheAGM,thefollowingwereelectedtotheNominatingCommittee:

ProfessorD.RHeathBrown(UniversityofOxford)-three-yeartermProfessorU.L.Tillmann(UniversityofOxford)–three-yeartermProfessorM.Mazzocco(LoughboroughUniversity)–two-yeartermProfessorS.R.Blackburn(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)–one-yearterm

ContinuingmembersoftheNominatingCommitteeareJohnToland(Chair),SarahReesandAlexWilkie.Councilwillalsoappointarepresentative.

LMS COUNCIL 2016-17

PresidentVice-Presidents

TreasurerGeneralSecretaryProgrammeSecretaryPublicationsSecretaryEducationSecretaryMember-at-Large(Librarian)Members-at-LargeofCouncil

ProfessorS.Tavaré(UniversityofCambridge)ProfessorK.A.Brown,FRSE(UniversityofGlasgow)ProfessorJ.P.C.Greenlees(UniversityofSheffield)ProfessorR.T.Curtis(UniversityofBirmingham)ProfessorS.A.Huggett(UniversityofPlymouth)ProfessorI.A.Stewart(UniversityofDurham)ProfessorJ.R.Hunton(UniversityofDurham)ProfessorF.A.Rogers(King’sCollegeLondon)ProfessorJ.E.Barrow-Green(OpenUniversity)ProfessorA.V.Borovik(UniversityofManchester)ProfessorT.E.Brendle(UniversityofGlasgow)DrF.W.Clarke(UniversityofSwansea)ProfessorD.E.Evans(UniversityofCardiff)

*DrA.D.GardinerDrC.A.Hobbs(UniversityoftheWestofEngland)*ProfessorS.Howison(UniversityofOxford)*DrD.Maclagan(UniversityofWarwick)*ProfessorG.M.Stallard(OpenUniversity)*DrA.Vdovina(UniversityofNewcastle)ProfessorS.Zerbes(UniversityCollegeLondon)

AsaresultoftheannualelectioninNovember2016,membershipoftheCouncilisasfollows(seephotographsonthefollowingpage):

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Professor Stephen HuggettGeneralSecretary

UniversityofPlymouth

Professor Simon Tavaré President

UniversityofCambridge

Professor Ken BrownVicePresident

UniversityofGlasgow

Professor John GreenleesVicePresident

UniversityofSheffield

Professor Rob CurtisTreasurer

UniversityofBirmingham

Professor Alexandre Borovik

Member-at-LargeUniversityofManchester

Professor June Barrow-GreenLibrarian(Member-at-Large)

OpenUniversity

Professor Iain StewartProgrammeSecretaryUniversityofDurham

Professor John HuntonPublicationsSecretaryUniversityofDurham

Professor Alice RogersEducationSecretaryKing’sCollege,London

Dr Tony GardinerMember-at-Large

Dr Cathy HobbsMember-at-LargeUniversityoftheWestofEngland

Professor Tara BrendleMember-at-Large

UniversityofGlasgow

Dr Francis ClarkeMember-at-Large

UniversityofSwansea

Professor David EvansMember-at-LargeUniversityofCardiff

Dr Diane MaclaganMember-at-Large

UniversityofWarwick

Professor Gwyneth StallardMember-at-LargeOpenUniversity

Dr Alina VdovinaMember-at-Large

UniversityofNewcastle

Professor Sam HowisonMember-at-LargeUniversityofOxford

Professor Sarah ZerbesMember-at-Large

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RETIRING MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

Professor David Evans and ProfessorBeatrice Pelloni stepped down as Mem-bers-at-LargeofCouncilatthe2016AGM.Council wishes to recognise and thankthem for the service they have given totheSocietyandtothewidermathemati-calcommunity.Professor Evanswas elected toCouncilin 2013. He has supported the Societythrough his membership of variouscommittees, including NominatingCommittee and Programme Committee,on which he will continue to serve. HehasalsobeenactiveintheSociety’spub-lishing activities and was Editor of theBulletin of the LMSfrom2012to2014.ProfessorPelloniwaselectedtoCouncil

in 2012. Shewas until recently Chair ofthe Research Meetings Committee, andhas represented European Women inMathematics on the LMS Women inMathematics Committee and been astrong supporterof theneed toaddressissues surrounding diversity in math-ematics. She was also an LMS delegateto the European Mathematical SocietyCouncil.The Society would also like to expressits thanks to Professor Terry Lyons whohas attended Council for the last yearas immediate past president. A detailedaccount of Professor Lyons’ contribu-tions to the Society are available in theJanuary2015LMS Newsletter.

LONGSTANDING MEMBERSThefollowingisalistofmemberswhohavecompleted50yearsormoreofmembershipoftheLondonMathematicalSociety.

More than 70 years in 2017

17Mar1943 Dyson,F.J.

23May1946 Huppert,E.L.

70th Anniversary in 2017

20Mar1947 Hayman,W.K.


18Mar1948 Isaacs,G.L.

18Mar1948 Reade,M.O.

13Dec1948 Fishel,B.

20Jan1949 Borwein,D.


20Mar1952 Swinnerton-Dyer,H.P.F.

18Dec1952 Reeve,J.E.


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18Jun1953 Rayner,M.E.

17Dec1953 Ringrose,J.R.

17Dec1953 Samet,P.A.

18Feb1954 Cohen,D.E.

18Feb1954 James,I.M.

17Jun1954 Taylor,S.J.

25Nov1954 Amson,J.C.

27Jan1955 Atiyah,M.F.

24Feb1955 Rayner,F.J.

24Mar1955 Farahat,H.K.

12May1955 Harrop,R.

12May1955 Murdoch,B.H.

12May1955 Wall,G.E.

15Dec1955 Armitage,V.J.

19Jan1956 Bowers,J.F.

15Mar1956 Edmunds,D.E.

19Apr1956 Penrose,R.

14Jun1956 Perry,R.L.

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13Jun1957 Brown,A.L.

18Jun1957 Russell,D.C.

21Nov1957 Wallington,J.E.

19Dec1957 Longdon,L.W.

19Dec1957 Mohamed,I.J.

19Dec1957 Monk,D.

19Dec1957 Newman,M.F.


20Mar1958 Keedwell,D.

20Mar1958 Wallace,D.A.R.

17Apr1958 Macdonald,I.G.

15May1958 Foster,D.M.E.


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18Dec1958 Birch,B.J.

15Jan1959 Blackburn,N.

16Apr1959 Burgess,D.A.

16Apr1959 Manogue,J.F.

21May1959 Ingram,G.

18Jun1959 Carter,R.W.

17Dec1959 Eames,W.P.

17Dec1959 Hoskins,R.F.

17Dec1959 West,A.

17Mar1960 Guy,R.K.

17Mar1960 Harris,D.J.

18Mar1960 Strauss,D.

19May1960 Hoare,A.H.M.

17Nov1960 Morris,A.O.

15Dec1960 TurnerSmith,R.F.

16Mar1961 Rhodes,F.

18May1961 Sklar,A.

15Jun1961 Button,L.G.

15Jun1961 Dey,I.M.S.

15Jun1961 Dlab,V.

15Jun1961 Robertson,S.A.

16Nov1961 Croft,H.T.

21Dec1961 Barry,P.D.

21Dec1961 Davies,R.O.

21Dec1961 Rutter,J.W.

21Dec1961 Sands,A.D.

21Dec1961 Wall,C.T.C.


18Jan1962 Ezeilo,J.O.C.

18Jan1962 Kingman,J.F.C.

15Mar1962 Baumslag,B.

26Apr1962 Cohn,J.H.E.

26Apr1962 Williams,S.O.


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17May1962 Mullin,A.A.

17May1962 Thompson,A.C.

21Jun1962 Peters,J.E.

15Nov1962 Gaffney,M.P.

20Dec1962 Douglas,A.J.

20Dec1962 Pears,A.R.

20Dec1962 Roberts,J.B.

20Dec1962 Wallace,E.W.


17Jan1963 Beardon,A.F.

17Jan1963 Blyth,T.S.

17Jan1963 Dugdale,J.K.

17Jan1963 Epstein,D.B.A.

17Jan1963 Garling,D.J.H.

17Jan1963 Piper,F.C.

17Jan1963 Robinson,W.J.

17Jan1963 Whittington,J.E.

18Apr1963 Bernau,S.J.

18Apr1963 Sutherland,W.A.

15May1963 Ault,J.C.

16May1963 Harte,R.E.

16May1963 Lee,P.

16May1963 Sondheimer,E.H.

16May1963 Weinmann,A.

16May1963 White,D.J.

20Jun1963 Duren,P.L.

20Jun1963 Pym,J.S.

20Jun1963 Rogosinski,H.P.

21Nov1963 Bechtell,H.F.

21Nov1963 Curtis,C.W.

21Nov1963 Eggan,L.C.

21Nov1963 Lowe,P.G.

19Dec1963 Heywood,P.

19Dec1963 Knowles,J.D.


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16Jan1964 Craven,B.D.

16Jan1964 Shawyer,B.L.R.

16Jan1964 Steer,B.F.

21May1964 Brown,W.G.

25Jun1964 Erdos,J.A.

19Nov1964 Evans,E.A.

19Nov1964 Roseblade,J.E.

19Nov1964 VincentSmith,G.F.

16Dec1964 Larman,D.G.

16Dec1964 Nelson,R.

16Dec1964 Reid,G.A.

17Dec1964 Ledgard,R.

17Dec1964 Morton,H.R.

17Dec1964 Neumann,P.M.

21Jan1965 Kegel,O.H.

21Jan1965 Walker,G.

10Apr1965 Batty,J.C.R.

20May1965 Hirst,K.E.

17Jun1965 Dodson,M.M.

17Jun1965 McGregor,M.T.

18Nov1965 Gardiner,C.F.

18Nov1965 Giblin,P.J.

18Nov1965 Harvey,W.J.

18Nov1965 Reade,J.B.

18Nov1965 Robinson,D.J.S.

16Dec1965 Evans,W.D.

20Jan1966 Bramwell,M.C.

20Jan1966 Elworthy,K.D.

21Jan1966 Rourke,C.P.

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4Apr1966 Baker,A.

21Apr1966 Wehrfritz,B.A.F.

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17Nov1966 Dempster,M.A.H.

17Nov1966 Moss,R.M.F.

17Nov1966 Rudolfer,S.M.

17Nov1966 Stephenson,W.

17Nov1966 Stratton,A.E.

15Dec1966 Eke,B.G.

15Dec1966 Jackson,T.H.

15Dec1966 Lance,E.C.

15Dec1966 Michael,I.M.

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16Feb1967 Dye,R.H.

16Feb1967 Fenn,R.A.

16Feb1967 Ford,J.W.M.

16Mar1967 Bryant,R.M.

16Mar1967 Rowlands,K.

16Mar1967 Williams,C.M.

20Apr1967 Chowdhury,M.R.

20Apr1967 vonRandow,R.R.

20Apr1967 Wood,G.V.

18May1967 Lickorish,W.B.R.

16Nov1967 Churchhouse,R.F.

16Nov1967 Collins,M.J.

16Nov1967 Dolan,P.

16Nov1967 Dunwoody,M.J.

16Nov1967 McKay,J.

16Nov1967 Stakgold,I.

16Nov1967 Walker,M.A.

16Nov1967 Whitelaw,T.A.

21Dec1967 Calder,A.G.R.

21Dec1967 Davies,P.L.

21Dec1967 Rennison,J.F.

21Dec1967 Sharp,R.Y.

21Dec1967 Tall,D.O.


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LMS GRANT SCHEMES

Next closing date for Research Grant applications: 22 January 2017

Applications are invited for the followinggrants:

Conferences (Scheme 1)Grantsofup to £7,000areavailabletoprovidepartial support for conferences held in theUnitedKingdom.Thisincludesamaximumof£4,000forprincipalspeakers,£2,000tosupporttheattendanceofresearchstudentswhoarestudyingatuniversitiesintheUK,and£1,000tosupporttheattendanceofparticipantsfromScheme5orformerSovietUnioncountries.

Celebrating new appointments (Scheme 1)Grantsofup to £600areavailabletoprovidepartialsupportformeetingsheldintheUnitedKingdomtocelebratethenewappointmentofalecturerataUKuniversity.

Postgraduate Research Conferences (Scheme 8)Grantsofup to £4,000areavailabletoprovidepartial support for conferences held in theUnitedKingdom,whichareorganisedbyandareforpostgraduateresearchstudents.

Visits to the UK (Scheme 2)Grantsofup to £1,500areavailabletoprovidepartialsupportforavisitortotheUK,whowillgivelecturesinatleastthreeseparateinstitu-tions.Awards aremade to the host towardsthe travel, accommodation and subsistencecostsofthevisitor.

Research in Pairs (Scheme 4)Grantsofup to £1,200areavailabletosupportavisitforcollaborativeresearcheitherbythegrantholdertoanotherinstitutionabroad,orby a named mathematician from abroad tothe home base of the grant holder. Grantsofup to £600areavailabletosupportavisitforcollaborativeresearcheitherbythegrantholdertoanotherinstitutionwithintheUK,orby a namedmathematician fromwithin the

UKtothehomebaseofthegrantholder.

International Short Visits (Scheme 5)Grantsofup to £3,000areavailabletosupportavisit forcollaborativeresearch,byanamedmathematician from a country in whichmathematics could be considered to be in adisadvantagedposition, tothehomebaseofthegrantholder.Grantsofup to £2,000 areavailable to support a visit for collaborativeresearchby thegrantholder toa country inwhichmathematicscouldbeconsideredtobeinadisadvantagedposition.Applicantswillbeexpected to explain in their applicationwhythe proposed country fits the circumstancesconsidered eligible for Scheme 5 funding.Applicants unsure if the proposed country iseligibleunderaScheme5grantshouldcontacttheGrantsteam.Forfulldetailsofthesegrantschemes,andtodownloadapplicationforms,visitthewebsite:www.lms.ac.uk/content/research-grants.• Applicationsreceivedby22 January 2017willbeconsideredatameetinginFebruary.

• Applicationsshouldbesubmittedwellinadvanceofthedateoftheeventforwhichfundingisrequested.

• Grantsarenotawardedforeventswhichhavealreadyhappened,andincaseswhereinsufficienttimehasbeenallowedforpro-cessingoftheapplication,theProgrammeCommitteereservestherighttodeclinefunding.Queries regarding applications can beaddressed to the Grants Administrator,Anthony Byrne (0207 927 0807, [email protected])whowillbepleasedtodiscussproposalsinformallywithpotentialapplicantsandgiveadviceonthesubmissionofanapplication.

OTHER LMS GRANTS AND FUNDING

Research Workshop GrantsTheSocietyoffersgrantstosupportResearchWorkshops held in the UK. Requests forsupport (for travel and subsistence of par-ticipants, and reasonable associated costs) in


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the range £1,000-£10,000 will be considered.Themaximumawardis£10,000,butatypicalawardisintherangeof£3,000 - £5,000.Appli-cationsforpartialsupportofworkshopswithother sources of support will be considered.Applicationsshouldnormallybesubmitted12monthsinadvanceoftheproposedworkshop.Forfurtherinformationvisit:www.lms.ac.uk/content/research-workshops-grants.

Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Math-ematics 2017 Next deadline: 16 February 2017Open to Undergraduate Students in the in-termediate years (i.e. 2/3, 2/4or 3/4)of theirundergraduate degree to undertake theprojectduringthesummervacation.Studentsinthefinalyearoftheirdegreeintendingtoundertake a taught Masters degree immedi-ately following their undergraduate degreemayapply.(First-yearundergraduatesarenoteligible.)Thepurposeoftheawardsistogiveexperience of research to undergraduates toexplorethepotentialofbecomingaresearch-er and and to encourage them to considera career in scientific research. The awardsprovide support for the student at a rate of£180perweek(or£190perweekinLondon),foraperiodofbetweensixandeightweeks.Formoreinformationandanapplicationformvisit: www.lms.ac.uk/grants/undergraduate-research-bursaries.

Spitalfields DaysNext deadline: 31 January 2017Grantsofup to £1,000areavailabletosupportanLMSSpitalfieldsDay,whichhavebeenrunsince1987andareinhonouroftheSociety’spredecessor, the Spitalfields MathematicalSociety (1717-1845). A Spitalfields Day is aone-daymeeting,which is usually associatedwith a long-term symposium on a specialisttopicataUKuniversity.Selectedparticipants,often distinguished experts from overseas,givesurveylectures(orothertypesoflectureaccessibletoageneralmathematicalaudience)ontopicsinthefieldofthesymposium.Visitthewebsiteforfurtherdetails:www.lms.ac.uk/content/spitalfields-days.

Grace Chisholm Young FellowshipNext deadline: 30 June 2017The Society offers two fellowships of £1,000 (consistingof£500personalsupportand£500contributiontoahostinstitution)eachyeartomathematicianswhoneedsupportwhentheirmathematical career is interrupted by familyresponsibilities, relocationofpartner,orothersimilarcircumstance.These fellowships, named after GraceChisholmYoung,aimtoprovidesomesupport,making possible some continuous mathemati-cal activity, so enabling the fellow to be in apositiontoapplyforpostswhencircumstancesallow.TheFellowshipwillgiveanendorsementof the holder's status as amathematician, sothat the break in formal employment shouldnot prevent them from resuming a career asa mathematician at a later stage. Visit thewebsite for further details: www.lms.ac.uk/grants/grace-chisholm-young-fellowships.

Small Grants for EducationNext deadline: 31 January 2017Funding for grantsup to £800 is available tostimulate interest and enable involvement inmathematicsfromKeyStage1(age5+)toPost-graduatelevelandbeyond.Anyoneworking/basedintheUKiseligibletoapplyforagrant.Iftheapplicantisnotamemberthentheapplica-tionmustbecountersignedbyanLMSmemberor another suitable person such as a Headteacherorseniorcolleague. Visitthewebsitefor further details: www.lms.ac.uk/content/small-grants-education.

Teacher CPD GrantsNext deadline: 31 January 2017Funding for grantsup to £400 is available toprovideopportunitiesformathematicsteachersto attend trainingwhich is specificallymathe-matical.ItisintendedtofacilitatemathematicalprofessionaldevelopmenttoallowteachersinUKschools/educationalinstitutionsto:a)Developtheirsubjectknowledge.b)Engageinadeeperunderstandingofhowtodevelopmathematicalthinking.

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d)Update themselvesonmathematics curricu-lumreform.

e)Usetechnologywhenandwhereappropriate.Visitthewebsiteforfurtherdetails:www.lms.ac.uk/grants/teacher-cpd-grants.

Computer Science Small Grants (Scheme 7)Next deadline: 15 April 2017Funding for grantsup to £500 is available tosupport a visit for collaborative research atthe interface of Mathematics and ComputerScienceeitherby thegrantholder toanotherinstitution within the UK or abroad, or by anamedmathematician fromwithin theUKorabroadtothehomebaseofthegrantholder.Visit thewebsite for furtherdetails:www.lms.ac.uk/content/computer-science-small-grants-scheme-7.

Caring Supplementary GrantsNext deadline: 22 January 2017Grantsofup to £200areavailabletoparentsandcarersworking inmathematics tohelpwith the cost of childcarewhen attendinga conference or research meeting. TheSociety believes that all parents workingin mathematics should be able to attendconferencesandresearchmeetingswithoutbeing hindered by childcare costs. Institu-tions are expected to make provision forchildcarecostsandparentsareencouragedto make enquiries. However, where thisis not available, the Society administers aChildcare Supplementary Grants Scheme.Visit the website for further details: www.lms.ac.uk/content/childcare-supplementary-grants.

LMS COUNCIL DIARY11 November 2016: A personal view

The November meeting of Council has asomewhatdifferentfeelingthanothers;theanticipationoftheAGMandAnnualDinnerlend a certain energy to the precedingCouncilmeeting.TheGeneralSecretaryupdatedCouncilonaproposalfromtheActivitiesReviewGroup.The group’s suggestion was to replace theProgramme Committee and the ResearchMeetings Committee with three new Com-mittees: Society Lectures and Meetings,ResearchGrants, andEarlyCareerResearch.Council agreed this restructuring wouldmore clearly delineate of the activities ofeach committee and balance workload.The Activities Review Group will present amoredetailedreporttoCouncilinFebruary.Council also agreed that Communicationsshould be considered by the ActivitiesReviewGroupaswell,withthepossibilityofremovingpublicengagementfromtheremitoftheEducationCommittee.Other agenda items of note included areportfromtheTreasurerdescribing,amongother things, the LMS’s recent property in-

vestments; a full financial report was ofcoursealsogivenlaterattheAGM.Councilalso heard from Vice-President Brown thatHEFCEhadannounced the launchofa con-sultation in November 2016 on the nextREF, though this has since been postponed.Councilwillbecontacted for furtherdiscus-sionassoonastheconsultationgoeslive.A substantial portion of themeetingwasdevoted to a presentation by Alan Wilson,ChiefExecutiveoftheAlanTuring Institute.Professor Wilson discussed the currentstaffingoftheATI, itsprogrammeactivities,and funding bodies. He also noted somechallengesfacingtheATI, includingthefullrepresentationandintegrationofthemath-ematicalsciencesamongstitsstrategicpriori-ties (Engineering, Technology, Defence andSecurity, SmartCities, Financial Service,andHealth and Wellbeing), and ensuring thatATIexistsasatrulynationalorganisation.Anumberofinterestingpointswereraisedinsubsequentdiscussion, including the extentofscopeforresidentmathematiciansatATI,the appeal of calls for Research Fellows to

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DE MORGAN HOUSE

On16February2017,theLondonMathemati-calSocietywillhavebeenatDeMorganHouse(DMH) for 19 years. The Societymoved fromitspreviouspremisesinBurlingtonHouseandpurchasedthelongleaseholdon57–58RussellSquare in 1998, renaming the property inhonourofthefirstLMSPresident,AugustusDeMorgan.InitiallyhousingonlyahandfulofLMSstaff,the six-level Grade II listed twin Georgianterraceswere chosen for threemain reasons:theirproximity to theLMSLibraryatUCL; toallow room to expand the LMS administra-tion;andtoserveasafittingandprestigiousmeeting space and headquarters for theSociety.Some spaceon theupperfloors is used forcommercialtenanciesandtodaythereisafullhouse of five commercial tenants, rangingfromothermathematicalbodiestocityinvest-mentcompanies.The largest project undertaken sinceoccupying thebuildingwas the2005 redevel-opmentofthelower-groundfloortocreateasuiteof conference facilities.Theprojectwascompletedandthenewfacilities launched in2006. Now in its eleventh year of operation,DMHConferenceFacilitiesisawell-establishedcentral Londonvenuepartneredwithoneofthe capital’s leading catering companies. Ithostseventsofallshapesandsizes,fromsmallboardroom meetings to larger training days,productlaunchesandsummerreceptionsinthegarden.Ofcourse,oneofthemainpurposesofthe space is use by the Society, and the Con-ferenceFacilitiesstillhostsallLMSCouncilandCommittee meetings and many more LMSevents. The Society offers support to similarmathematicalbodieswithsignificantdiscounts

ontheconferencefacilities,meaningthattheLMS hostsmanymathematicalmeetings andeventsinadditiontoitsown.Forthepastsixyears,theLMShastakenpartinOpenHouseLondon,welcomingover2,000visitorsintotal.Thiseventtakesplaceannuallyin September,with buildings of architecturalinterest opening their doors to the public.OpenHousehasseenupto400visitorsinoneday coming to view DMH, in particular theoriginalfireplacesandhighceilings.OneroomatDMHisstillkeptasaMember’sRoom and is named after mathematicianSamuelVerblunsky.Theroomisintendedasaplace tomeet, study, readandgoonline.Allmembers are encouraged to visit DMH, usethefacilities,attenditsevents,trythemeetingroomsandseethefinebuildingtheSocietyisfortunatetocallhome.

DominicClarkGroupHead,Conferences&Building

LondonMathematicalSociety

DeMorganHouse

mathematicians, and the level of engage-ment between ATI and individual depart-mentswithin institutions, an area inwhichAlanWilsonfelttheLMScouldbeakeyasset.Themeeting closedwith Council offering

thanks to members leaving Council: DavidEvansandBeatricePelloni,andwedispersedtofindourwaytotheBMAfortheAGMandanenjoyableafternoonofmathematics.

TaraBrendle


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LMS PRIZES 2017CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The LondonMathematical Society welcomes nominations for the 2017 prizes, torecogniseandcelebrateachievementsinandcontributionstomathematics.

In2017,theLMSCouncilexpectstoaward:

PÓLYA PRIZEisawardedinrecognitionofoutstandingcreativityin,imaginativeexpo-sitionof,ordistinguishedcontributionto,mathematicswithintheUnitedKingdom.

SHEPHARD PRIZE is awarded to a mathematician or mathematicians for makinga contribution to mathematics with a strong intuitive component which can beexplainedtothosewith littleornoknowledgeofuniversitymathematics, thoughtheworkitselfmayinvolvemoreadvancedideas.

SENIOR WHITEHEAD PRIZE–groundsfortheawardmayincludeworkin,influenceonorservicetomathematics,orrecognitionoflecturinggiftsinthefieldofmath-ematics

NAYLOR PRIZE AND LECTURESHIP IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS – grounds for theawardmay includework in,and influenceon,andcontributions toappliedmath-ematicsand/ortheapplicationsofmathematics,andlecturinggifts.

SENIOR ANNE BENNETT PRIZE–groundsfortheawardareworkin,influenceonorservicetomathematics,particularlyinrelationtoadvancingthecareersofwomeninmathematics.

WHITEHEAD PRIZES–forworkinandinfluenceonmathematics.

BERWICK PRIZEisawardedtotheauthor(s)ofadefinitepieceofresearchactuallypublishedbytheSocietyduringtheeightyearsendingon31December2016.

Forfurtherinformationandnominationforms,pleasevisittheLMSwebsite(www.lms.ac.uk/content/nominations-lms-prizes) or contact Duncan Turton, Secretary tothePrizesCommitteeattheSociety(tel:02079270801,email:[email protected]).

ThePrizesCommitteeiskeentoincreasethenumberofnominationsitreceivesand,inparticular,thenumberofnominationsforwomen,whicharedisproportionatelyloweachyear.Theprizeregulationsrefertotheconceptof‘academicage’—ratherthandateofbirth—inordertotakeaccountmorefullyofbrokencareerpatterns.

Closing date for nominations: Tuesday 24 January 2017


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LMS RESEARCH SCHOOLSCALL FOR PROPOSALS

TheLondonMathematicalSocietyinvitesproposalsforResearchSchoolstobeheldintheUKin2018.

Up to £20,000isavailableperResearchSchoolwhichprovidestrainingforyoungresearchersinacoreareaofmathematics.Thenewseriesofcoursesbuildsontheresearchschools,previouslysupportedbytheSocietyandClayMathematics Institute, and aims at thehighest international standingbyallowingforsupportofbothinternationallecturersandparticipants.TheResearch Schools are also supportedby theHeilbronn Institute forMath-ematicalResearch.

ProspectiveorganisersshouldsendanoutlineproposaltoElizabethFisher([email protected])by31 January 2017.

Outlineproposalsshoulddiscuss:

• ThegeneralmathematicalareaoftheproposedResearchSchoolanditsimportance.

• TheaimsoftheResearchSchool,itsappropriatenesstotheResearchSchoolprogrammeandthelikelylevelofdemandfortheResearchSchool.

• Thenamesandaffiliationsofthelecturers,titlesoftheircoursesandbriefsyllabuses.

• Theprovisionfortutorialsupport.

OutlineproposalsshouldbenomorethantwoA4sidesinlength.

For further details about the Research Schools, please visit the Society’swebsite:www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-research-schools.

A listofpreviously supportedResearchSchoolsandShortCourses canbefoundat:www.lms.ac.uk/events/past-research-schools-and-short-courses.

Before submitting:OrganisersarewelcometodiscussinformallytheirideaswiththeChairoftheResearchMeetingsCommittee,ProfessorChrisParker([email protected]).


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London Mathematical Society

Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Mathematics2017

Nature of Awards

The purpose of the awards is to give experience of research to undergraduates to explore the potential of becoming a researcher and to encourage them to consider a career in scientific research.

The awards provide support for the student at a rate of £180 per week (or £190 per week in London), for a period of between 6 and 8 weeks.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm Thursday 16 February 2017.

Eligibility

• Students may only take up the award during the summer vacation between the intermediate years (i.e. 2/3, 2/4 or 3/4) of their undergraduate degree. Students in the final year of their degree intending to undertake a taught Masters degree immediately following their undergraduate degree may apply. Applications on behalf of first-year undergraduates will not be considered.

• Researchers in Mathematics at universities and research institutions within the UK are eligible to apply. Interdisciplinary projects will be considered providing the project has significant mathematical content.

• Postdoctoral researchers and new lecturers, early in their careers are also encouraged to apply, and should note this on the application form.

• Only one application should be submitted by a supervisor. • Departments are asked to provide match-funding for half of the grant awarded (for example, for a 6 week grant at

£180 per week, departments will be asked to contribute £540 and the Society will contribute £540). Departments offering match-funding will be able to receive funding for up to 4 half-funded Bursaries. Departments not willing to provide match-funding will only be able to receive funding for up to 2 Bursaries. Please bear in mind that this is a national scheme with a limited number of bursaries.

• Mature students are eligible to apply, but must not have a previous degree in any subject.• Students will normally be expected to be on track for a first class degree in order to be considered.• Students must be registered at a UK institution for the majority of their undergraduate degree. • Supervisors and students do not necessarily have to be based at the same institution, however we expect that they

will work together at the same institution for the duration of the project and have regular meaningful personal contact contact (an average of 1 hour per week meeting in person is the minimum expected).

• Bursaries will not be awarded for projects that are a part of degree work, or that take place overseas for more than 50% of the project time.

• Bursaries will only be granted for the student named on the application form; awards are not transferable between students.

How to apply

- Application Forms can be downloaded from the Society’s website: www.lms.ac.uk/content/grants.- Applications must be made by the project supervisor on behalf of the student, and not by the student.- Applications should be discussed with the nominated student, who should also contribute to the project design.- Applications should include the student’s academic record and a supporting statement from his/her academic tutor.- Applications must be signed by the Head of Department to confirm his/her approval for the award to be administered by the department and to confirm any match-funding contributions by the department (awards are not offered directly to individual researchers but to the institutions to which they belong). Further information including the Guidelines on How to Apply are available from the Society website: www.lms.ac.uk/content/grants. Queries may also be addressed to Katy Henderson ([email protected]).


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LMS HARDY LECTURESHIP TOUR 2018Nominations Sought

TheSocietyisseekingnominationsforaHardyLectureTourin2018.

TheHardyLecturervisitstheUKforaperiodofabouttwoweeks,andgivestheHardyLectureataSocietymeeting,normallyheldinLondoninlateJuneorearlyJuly.TheHardyLecturerwillalsogiveatleastsixotherlectures,ondifferenttopics,atothervenuesintheUK.

ThescheduleisdecidedbytheProgrammeSecretaryinconsultationwiththeHardyLecturer,andwillbedesignedtoallowasmanyUKmathematiciansaspossibletobenefitfromtheHardyLecturer'spresenceintheUK.

TheholderoftheHardyLectureshipshallbeamathematicianwhohasnotbeennormallyresidentintheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandforaperiodofatleastfiveyears,atthetimeoftheaward.GroundsfortheawardoftheLectureshipinclude:

• theachievementsoftheHardyLecturer,• includingworkin,influenceon,andgeneralservicetomathematics;lecturinggifts;andbreadthofmathematicalinterests;

• theoverallbenefittheUKmathematicalcommunitymightderivefromthevisit;

• thepossibilityofbringingtotheUKamath-ematicianwhomightotherwisevisitrarelyornever.

TheHardyLectureshipisnotrestrictedtomath-ematiciansworkinginanyspecificareaofmath-ematics.

Previouslecturersinclude:2016Jacob Lurie(Harvard),2015Nalini Joshi(Sydney),2014Percy Deift(NYU),2012Etienne Ghys(Lyon).

TheLondonMathematicalSocietywillfund:

• thehonorarium-£2,000paiddirectlytotheHardyLecturer.• travelexpenses(includingtravelto/fromtheUKandwithintheUK).upto£2,500• accommodationexpenses.upto£1,500• acontributiontothehostdepartmenttoholdadinnerfortheHardyLecturer/HardyLecturer.upto£100perinstitution.

Thehostdepartment(s)willbeexpectedtoprovideofficeaccommodationandtheacademicsupportnormallyofferedtoadistinguishedvisitor.

Nominationsmusthavethesupportofthehostdepartment(s),andshouldbesentbytheHeadofDepartmenttotheProgrammeSecretary([email protected]).Theclosingdateforproposalsis31 January 2017.

Forfurtherdetailsandguidanceonhowtosubmitanomination,pleasevisittheSociety’swebsite:www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectures/hardy-lectureship

JacobLurie(Harvard)2016HardyLecturer


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News

MATHEMATICS POLICY ROUND-UPJanuary 2017

RESEARCH

Increased funding for R&DIn its Autumn Statement the governmentannounced that therewouldbe increasedfundingforscienceR&D.Theexactdetailsofhow themoneywillbe spenthavenotbeen announced. The following informa-tionwasoutlinedintheStatement.‘Research and Development (R&D) is akey driver of economic growth and is avital part of the government’s IndustrialStrategy. To help boost UK productivitythe NPIF will provide an additional £4.7billion by 2020-21 in R&D funding. Thisextra £2 billion a year by the end of thisParliamentisanincreaseofaround20%tototalgovernmentR&Dspending,andmorethan any increase in any Parliament since1979.ThroughtheNationalProductivityIn-vestmentFund(NPIF)thegovernmentwillfund:• IndustrialStrategyChallengeFund–anewcross-disciplinaryfundtosupportcollaborationsbetweenbusinessandtheUK’ssciencebase,whichwillsetidentifi-ablechallengesforUKresearcherstotackle.ThefundwillbemanagedbyInnovateUKandresearchcouncils.Mod-elledontheUSA’sDefenseAdvancedResearchProjectsAgencyprogrammethechallengefundwillcoverabroadrangeoftechnologies,tobedecidedbyanevidence-basedprocess.

• Innovation,appliedscienceandresearch–additionalfundingwillbeallocatedtoincreaseresearchcapacityandbusinessinnovation,tofurthersupporttheUK’sworld-leadingresearchbaseandtoun-lockitsfullpotential.Onceestablished,UKRIwillawardfundingonthebasisofnationalexcellenceandwillincludeasubstantialincreaseingrantfundingthroughInnovateUK.’More information is available at http://tinyurl.com/he8dkm9.

Leaving the EU: Implications and opportunities for science and researchThe House of Commons Science and Tech-nologyCommitteehaspublisheditsreporttitledLeaving the EU: implications and op-portunities for science and research.Detailsavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/zhjbm5b.Amongstotherpointsthecommitteehasdemanded that the government ‘shouldmakeanimmediatecommitmenttoexemptEU scientists and researchers alreadyworkingintheUKfromwiderpotentialim-migrationcontrols’.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS) The study for 2015 shows that East Asiancountriesaremaintainingtheir20yearleadforstudentsaged10and14.ThestudyispublishedbytheInternation-alAssociation for theEvaluationofEduca-tional Achievement (IEA), the study is thelongest running, large scale internationalassessment of mathematics and scienceeducationintheworldIn the latest TIMSS tests, England hasfallen by one place in mathematics atboth primary level, from ninth to 10th,and secondary level, from 10th to 11th.Northern Ireland has improved to sixth atprimarylevel.Moreinformationisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/z8tlldp.

High-quality ITE for all teachers of mathematicsThe Advisory Committee on Mathemat-ics Education (ACME) published its report,Beginning teaching: best in class?in2015.Two leaflets are now available for ITEproviders and STEM policymakers thatsummarise the key messages. More infor-mation is available at http://tinyurl.com/jek2qsq.


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Closing the STEM skill gapTheHouseofCommonsScienceandTechnol-ogy Committee has launched an inquiry tolookatclosingtheSTEMskillsgap.Through-outitsrecentinquiries,theScienceandTech-nology Committee has repeatedly receivedevidence that the UK is facing STEM skillshortages, often in key growth sectors, likebigdata.TheCommitteeisinvitingwrittenevidenceon measures that organisations, businesses,schools, collegesand individualshavetakento close the STEM skills gap. These couldinclude, but are not limited to, apprentice-ships,vocationalcourses,mentoring,teacherplacementsinindustryandestablishinglinksbetweenbusinessandschoolsandcolleges.Submissionsshouldoutline:

• theSTEMskillsthatwereneededbutwerefoundtobeinshortsupplyormissing;

• howthisparticularskillsneedhasbeenaddressed,includingspecificdetailsofthemeasuresintroduced(egwhether

themeasuresarefocusedondevelop-inggenericskills(suchasmanagement),sector-specificskillsorraisingawareness,howtheyhavebeenimplementedandde-livered,andhowmanypeoplehavetaken/arecurrentlytakingpart);

• thecostofthemeasuresandhowtheyhavebeenfunded;and

• theresultsofanyevaluationofthemeas-ures/schemesintroduced.Theclosingdateforwrittensubmissions is

Friday 13 January 2017.Moreinformationisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/zg426oy.

My Science InquiryTheHouseofCommonsScienceandTechnol-ogyCommitteehasdecidedtocreateanopenopportunity for the science community andthewiderpublictosuggestscienceandtech-nologyareasforscrutiny.Moreinformationisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/hakkugm.

DrJohnJohnstonJointPromotionofMathematics

L’ORÉAL UK & IRELAND FELLOWSHIPS FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2017Applications now open

Over 18 years ago, L’Oréal and UNESCOfoundedtheForWomeninScienceprogrammeto promote and highlight the importance ofensuring greater participation of women inscience.Each year, the International Programme rec-ognisestheachievementsofexceptionalfemale

scientists andawards themwithfellowshipsto help furthertheir research.In 2017, fiveawards of£15,000 each,will be offeredto outstanding

femalepost-doctoralresearchersintheUKandIreland.Adjudicatedbyapanelofeminentscien-tists,thefellowshipscanbeusedinanynumberofways - frompurchasingnewequipment topaying for childcare costs - to enablewomenscientists to further their careersand facilitateworld class research. In totalmore than2,000womeninover100countrieshavebeenrecog-nisedfortheirresearchandreceivedfundingtofurthertheirstudies.TheFellowship is inpartnershipwith theUKNationalCommissionforUNESCOandtheIrishNational Commission for UNESCO, with thesupportofTheRoyalSociety.ApplicationscloseonWednesday 25 January

2017. Apply now at www.womeninscience.co.uk.

L’Oréal UK & Ireland FellowshipsFor Women in Science

2017 Applicationsnow open

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UK NATIONAL COMMISSIONFOR UNESCO AND THE IRISH NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO,

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

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SOMERVILLE TO FEATURE ON THE SCOTTISH £10 NOTE

In 2017 the Royal Bank ofScotland (RBS) will releaseintocirculationa£10notefeaturing a portrait ofMary Somerville, and aquotefromherpublicationOn the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.In December 2015 it wasannouncedthatthepersonto appear on the newScottish polymer £10 notewould be selected by thepublic; over one hundred Scottish figureswho had contributed to science and inno-vation were nominated. Mary Somerville,Thomas Telford and James Clerk Maxwellmade up the short list, fromwhich Somer-villewaschosenbyapublicvoteontheRBSFacebookpageinFebruaryoflastyear.Mary Fairfax (later Somerville) was bornin Jedburgh on 26 December 1780. Shegrew up in Burntisland, Fifeshire, whereshe loved to explore the coast and investi-gatethelocalseaandplantlife.Asayoungteenager she discovered a most curiouspuzzle, published in a monthly magazinealongside pictures of ladies' dresses,whichinvolved ‘strange looking linesmixedwithletters,chieflyX'sandY's'[1,Pg.37].Atthetime, Somerville was only able to discoverthenameofthisunusualnewmathematics:‘Algebra'.Astestamenttoherdeterminationand tenacity, without any encouragementwhatsoeverSomervilleproceededtoobtaina copy of Euclid's Elements and begin hermathematicalstudies.In 1813 Somerville began correspondingwithWilliamWallace,MathematicalMasterat the Royal Military College; under hisguidance, at the age of 33, she began herstudiesofFrenchanalysis.Thiswouldleadin1831tothepublicationofMechanism of the Heavens, a translation and elucidation ofLaplace'sMécanique Céleste. This pioneer-ing text utilised the work of Poisson and

others to modernise the work of Laplace,andintroducedittoaBritishaudience.Herbookwassotechnicallyadvancedthatitwasimmediately introducedasarecommendedtextforthemosthighlyachievingstudentsattheUniversityofCambridge.Somerville went on to publish works inmost branches of scientific discovery, andthroughouther life she correspondedwithsome of themost influential scientists andmathematicians of the time. Her love ofmathematics continued until the day shedied,aged91,whensherevisedheroriginalworkOn the Theory of Differences,atreatiseonthedifferentialcalculuswhichwasneverpublished.Somerville wrote in her memoirs ‘I wasconsciousthatIhadnevermadeadiscoverymyself, that I had no originality... Thatspark from heaven is not granted to thesex [women]' [1, Pg. 145]. Such negativeopinions of women impacted Somervillethroughoutherlife,andcontinuetoimpactmathematicians today. Thus it is fantasticthatwearenowabletobeginrecognisingandappreciatingSomerville's contributionstoscienceinsuchavisibleandexcitingway.

BrigitteStenhouseSomervilleCollege,Oxford

References

[1]McMillan, D., Ed.Queen of Science, Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville, CanongateClassics,2001.


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SUBLIME SYMMETRYA fascinating exhibition showcasing the intricate mathematical patterns behind William De Morgan’s ceramic designs

Friday9December2016sawtheofficialopeningoftheexhibitionSublime Symmetry - The Math-ematics behind De Morgan’s Ceramic Designsorganised by the De Morgan Foundation attheNewWalkMuseumandGalleryinLeicester,whichfeaturesmathematicallyinspiredceramictiles and pottery by Victorian Arts and CraftsceramicartistWilliamDeMorgan (1839-1917).DeMorganwasthesonofAugustusdeMorgan(1806-1871), one of the leading mathemati-cianandlogicianofhistimeandthefoundingpresidentoftheLondonMathematicalSociety.The exhibition not only showcases some ofthemost extraordinary ceramic objects of DeMorgan,butalsothoroughlymanagestoillus-tratehisintricatedesignsbasedondeepmath-ematicalinsightsintothetwoandthreedimen-sionalpatternmakingprocesses.Manyof thefeatureddesignsoftheexhibitedceramicsarethe resultofdeMorgan’spreoccupationwithcomplicatedsymmetricalpatternshefirstsawinmedieval,IndianandIslamictilesandpotteryaswellasofhisownloveforgeometryinitiatedthroughhis father. Someof theexhibitsevenseemtopointallthewaytoM.C.Escher’smath-ematicallyinfluencedartworks.De Morgan’s ceramics harmoniously displaybeauty and symmetry and single him out asan outstanding Victorian designer with ex-traordinarymathematical skills.Theexhibition

certainly will attract mathematicians and artloversalike.The opening ceremony featured introduc-tions and greetings by Sarah Levitt (Head ofArtsandMuseums,LeicesterCityCouncil),JeanMcMeakin(ChairoftheTrusteeBoardoftheDeMorganFoundation),PiaraSinghClair(Council-lorandAssistantCityMayorofLeicester),SarahHardy (Exhibition Curator, De Morgan Foun-dation) and Frank Neumann (Department ofMathematics, University of Leicester and LMSrepresentative).The exhibition, which is also partiallysupported by the LMS is touring the countryandwasshownalreadyinBurnley,BarnsleyandTorbay.ItwillbeinLeicesteruntil4March2017afterwhichitcanbeseenforafinalperiodfrom12Marchto3September2017attheWilliamMorris Gallery inWalthamstow. The entranceis free and there are many local educationaloutreachactivitiesplannedthroughouttheex-hibitionperiods.Especiallymentionedshouldbethe upcoming Sublime Symmetry Symposium: Celebrating William De Morgan and synergies between mathematics and art organised bytheDeMorganFoundationon13January2017atDeMorganHouse,theLMSheadquarteratRussellSquareinLondon(seepage50).

FrankNeumannUniversityofLeicester

BullVase,decoratedbyJoeJuster.Thetailsofthebullswraparoundthehandles.

Symmetricaltilepanel,basedonanIndiandesign.

JeanMcMeakin,SarahHardy,PiaraSinghClair,SarahLevitt,FrankNeumann


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Microlocal Analysis and ApplicationsLMS-CMI Research School

Cardiff 26 June – 1 July 2017

Organisers:S.Eswarathasan(Cardiff),C.Guillarmou(ENS,Paris),R.Schubert(Bristol)

MicrolocalanalysisisastudyofpartialdifferentialequationsthroughthelensofsymplecticgeometryandFourieranalysis.Thefieldhasawiderangeofapplicationstowards,andnotlimitedto,spectraltheory,scatteringtheory, inverseproblems,anddynamicalsystems.Thepurposeofthisschool isto introducegraduatestudentsandyoungresearcherstoboth itsfoundationsandrecentapplications.

Lecture Courses

Alexander Ströhmaier(Loughborough)&Jared Wunsch(NorthwesternUniversity)Basic ideas in Microlocal Analysis

Stephane Nonnenmacher(UniversitédeParis-Sud,11)&Andrew Hassell(AustralianNationalUniversity)Scattering Theory and Spectral Theory

Viviane Baladi (Institut deMathématiques de Jussieu) &Colin Guillarmou (Ecole NormaleSupériore,Paris)Pollicott-Ruelle Resonances, Mixing in Dynamical Systems, and X-ray Transform

Theselecturecourseswillbesupplementedbytutorialsessions.

Distinguished Speakers

MaciejZworski(SpectralTheory,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley),GuntherUhlmann(InverseProblems,UniversityofWashington,Seattle),MarkPollicott (DynamicalSystems,UniversityofWarwick)

AwebsitewithfurtherinformationwillbeavailablebyDecember2016.

Apply online (www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RS-32-MicrolocalAnalysis) by 31 March 2017.Researchstudents,post-docsandthoseworkinginindustryareinvitedtoapply.

*Allapplicantswillbecontactedwithin threeweeksafter thedeadline; informationaboutindividualapplicationswillnotbeavailablebeforethen.*

Fees

Researchstudents:£150.Therewillbenochargeforsubsistencecosts.

Earlycareerresearchers:£250.Therewillbenochargeforsubsistencecosts.

Otherparticipants(e.g.thoseworkinginindustry):£250plussubsistencecosts.

ResearchstudentswhohavenotcompletedtheirPhDsbythestartoftheResearchSchoolandwhowouldotherwisebeunabletoattendcanapplyforfinancialaid.

FeesarenotpayableuntilaplaceattheResearchSchoolisofferedbutwillbedueby26May2017.


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New Trends in Representation Theory - The Impact of Cluster Theory

in Representation TheoryLMS-CMI Research School

University of Leicester19-23 June 2017

Organisers:KarinBaur(UGraz)andSibylleSchroll(Leicester)

Thefocusofthecourseisonrecentadvancesthathaveemergedinrepresentationtheorythrough

cluster theory:n-representation theory, integrable systemsand friezes,and siltingand infinite

dimensionalrepresentations.Theseareasofmathematicsareenrichedbytheirinteractionswith

otherareasofmathematicssuchascategorytheory,dynamicalsystemsandmathematicalphysics.

Lecture Courses

Peter Jorgensen(Newcastle)n-representation theory

Sophie Morier-Genoud (Paris)Integrable systems and friezes

Lidia Angeleri-Hügel (Verona)Infi nite dimensional representations

Theselecturecourseswillbesupplementedbytutorialsessions.

Guest lectures: M. Herschend (Uppsala),P.-G. Plamondon (Orsay)andM. Prest (Manchester)

Forfurtherinformation,pleasevisit:https://sites.google.com/site/clustertheoryinreptheory/

Applyonline(www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RS-28-NewTrendsInRepresentationTheory)by24 March 2017.Researchstudents,post-docsandthoseworkinginindustryareinvitedtoapply.

*Allapplicantswillbecontactedwithinthreeweeksafterthedeadline;informationaboutindivid-

ualapplicationswillnotbeavailablebeforethen.*

Fees

Researchstudents:£150.Therewillbenochargeforsubsistencecosts.

Earlycareerresearchers:£250.Therewillbenochargeforsubsistencecosts.

Otherparticipants(e.g.thoseworkinginindustry):£250plussubsistencecosts.

ResearchstudentswhohavenotcompletedtheirPhDsbythestartoftheResearchSchooland

whowouldotherwisebeunabletoattendcanapplyforfinancialaid.

FeesarenotpayableuntilaplaceattheResearchSchoolisofferedbutwillbedueby19May2017.


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LMS INVITED LECTURER 2017Professor Jim Agler (UCSD)Function Theory by Hilbert Space Methods18-22 April 2017, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityOur topic will be a powerful machinery that has been developed in the last 60 years both to discov-er and to prove theorems about analytic functions in one and several complex variables through the construction of operators on Hilbert space. The lectures will begin with expositions of the elementary operator theory that is required to achieve interesting results in function theory. Next we will show how a number of classical results in the theory of analytic functions in one variable, when cast in a Hilbert space setting, can be proved by operator-theoretic methods which are largely algebraic in nature. These results will include the Herglotz Representation Theorem, the Carathéodory and Pick Interpolation Theorems, Nevanlinna’s Representation Theorems, the Car-athéodory-Julia Theorems, and Loewner’s Theorem. The remainder of the talks will focus on how the operator-theoretic proofs of these one- variable theorems can be generalized to yield a variety of new results in several complex variables.

Guest LecturesThere will also be supplementary lectures by: Professor John McCarthy (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)Research interests: Analysis, especially Operator Theory and one/several Complex VariablesAssociate Professor Greg Knese (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)Research interests: Complex Function Theory, Operators, Harmonic AnalysisAssistant Professor Kelly Bickel (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA)Research interests: Multivariate Operator Theory, Several Complex Variables, Harmonic Analysis

Accommodation, Travel Funding and RegistrationAccommodation will be provided at the Osborne Hotel. Limited fi nancial support is available with preference given to UK research students. Please contact the organiser for further details: Zinaida Lykova [email protected]. Deadline for funding: 1 April 2017.

For further details and how to register for the 2017 Invited Lectures please visit: http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~nek29/lmslectures2017/function_theory.html


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The London Mathematical Society is a registered charity for the promotion of mathematical knowledge.

CECIL KING TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP

The London Mathematical Society annually awards a £5,000 Cecil King Travel Scholarship in Mathematics, to a young mathematician of outstanding promise. The Scholarship is awarded to support a period of study or research abroad, typically for a period of three months. Study or research in all areas of mathematics is eligible for the award. The award is competitive and based on a written proposal describing the intended programme of study or research abroad, and the benefits to be gained from such a visit. A shortlist of applicants will be selected for an interview during which they will be expected to make a short presentation on their proposal. Applicants must be nationals of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, either registered for or having completed a doctoral degree within 12 months of the closing date. Applications should be made using the form available on the Society's website (https://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/cecil-king-travel-scholarship) or by contacting [email protected]. The closing date for applications is Friday 31 March 2017. It is expected that interviews will take place in London in late May or early June. The Cecil King Travel Scholarship was established in 2001 by the Cecil King Memorial Fund. The award is made by the Council of the London Mathematical Society on the recommendation of the Cecil King Prize Committee, nominated by the Society's Research Meetings Committee.

CECIL KING TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP


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IMU BREAKOUT GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPSThankstoagenerousdonationbythewinnersoftheBreakthrough PrizesinMathematics–IanAgol,SimonDonaldson,MaximKontsevich,JacobLurie,TerenceTaoandRichardTaylor–theInternationalMathematicalUnion(IMU)withtheFriendsoftheIMUandTheWorldAcademyofScienceslastAprillauncheda fellowshipprogram to supportpost-graduatestudiesinadevelopingcountryleadingtoaPhDdegreeinthemathematicalsciences.The2016recipientsoffellowshipsare:

• Do Thai DuongaVietnamesePhDstudentattheInstituteofMathematicsoftheVietnamAcademyofScienceandTechnology

• María Alejandra Ramírez LunaaColombianPhDstudentattheUniversidaddelValle,Colombia

• Abebe Regassa TufaanEthiopianPhDstudentattheUniversityofBotswanaFor more information see www.mathunion.org/cdc.

MATHEMATICAL LIMERICK

AnexoticmathematicaldancerWoreaone-sideddresstoenhanceher.WhenaskedtoletripAnddoaMöbiusstrip,Shesimplyde-Kleinedtoanswer…

A highlight of theMathsJam recreational mathematics conference in November 2016 was alimerickwrittenandpresentedbythepuzzleexpertLaurieBrokenshire.WearegratefultoLaurieforpermissiontopublishhislimerick.

MATHSJAMMathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts togettogetherinapubandsharestufftheylike:puzzles,games,problems,orjustanythingtheythinkiscoolorinteresting.MathsJammeetonthesecondtolastTuesdayof every month, from 7 pm in the evening.Events happen simultaneously in locationsaround the UK (and the world!) For more

detailsoflocaleventsvisitthewebsiteathttp://tinyurl.com/hnfulzv.Youcanfollowtheactivitybylookingatthe@MathsJamtwitterfeed.ThereisalsoanannualMathsJamconference,over a weekend usually in early November,whereasuccessionof“lightningtalks”presentsawiderangeofinterestingmathematicalideas.Seehttp://mathsjam.com/conference formoreinformation.


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RAMANUJAN PRIZE 2017Call for Nominations

The Ramanujan Prize for young mathemati-cians from developing countries has beenawarded annually since 2005. The Prize isfunded by the Department of Science andTechnologyoftheGovernmentof India(DST).ItisadministeredjointlybytheAbdusSalamIn-ternationalCentreforTheoreticalPhysics(ICTP),the International Mathematical Union (IMU)andtheDST.The Ramanujan Prize is usually awarded to

oneperson,butmaybesharedequallyamongrecipientswhohave contributed to the samebodyofwork.ThePrizeisawardedannuallytoaresearcherfromadevelopingcountrywhoisless than45yearsofageon31Decemberoftheyearoftheaward,andwhohasconductedoutstandingresearchinadevelopingcountry.Nominationscanonlybemadebyusingtheonlinesystemathttp://tinyurl.com/j587vf6.Thedeadlinefornominationsis1 February 2017.

EUROPEAN NEWSERC consolidator grantsAcallforthenextroundofEuropeanResearchCouncil (ERC) consolidator grants has beenissued: the deadline for applications is 9 February 2017 (before the likely Brexit date!).Seehttps://erc.europa.eu/consolidator-grants.

Research visits in AfricaTheCommitteeforDevelopingCountries(CDC)of the European Mathematical Society (EMS),withthesupportoftheSimonsFoundation,hassetupaprogrammeofresearchvisitstofosterresearch opportunities for young and estab-

lished researchers inAfrica. Theprogrammeisopentoallareasofpureandappliedmath-ematicsandstatisticsanditisdirectedtofellowsbasedinAfrica. Seewww.euro-math-soc.eu/ems-simons-africa.

EMS NewsletterTheDecember2016editionoftheNewsletterisnowavailableonline,featuringinterviewswithSirMichaelAtiyahandErnestBorisovichVinberg.Seewww.euro-math-soc.eu/newsletter.

DavidChillingworthLMS/EMSCorrespondent

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SPITALFIELDS DAY 2017CALL FOR PROPOSALS

TheLondonMathematicalSocietyispleasedtooffergrantsofup to £1,000towardsthecostofaSpitalfieldsDay.

ASpitalfieldsDayisaone-dayeventatwhichselectedparticipants,ofteneminentexpertsformoverseas,givesurveylecturesortalks,whichareaccessibletoageneralmathematicalaudience. TheSpitalfieldsDay isoftenassociatedwitha long-termsymposiumandspeakerswillgenerallygivelecturesontopicsofthesymposium.

Thenamehonours theSociety’spredecessor, theSpitalfieldsMathematical Society,whichflourishedfrom1717to1845,andSpitalfieldsDayshavebeenheldeachyearsince1987.

Thegrantof£1,000isintendedtocoveractualsupplementarycostsfortheevent,e.g.subsidisingthecostforalunchforparticipants,andforsmalltravelgrantsof£50toenableLMSmembersandresearchstudentstoattendtheevent.

If you are interested in organising a Spitalfields Day, pleasewrite to the Society([email protected]).Theformatneednotbepreciselyasdescribed,butshouldbeinasimilarspirit.

Thenextdeadlineforproposalsis31 January 2017.Subsequentdeadlinesare15Mayand15September2017.PleasenotetheSocietycannotfundeventsretrospectivelysoapplicantsareadvisedtoapplywellinadvanceoftheevent.

PreviouslysupportedSpitalfieldsDayshaveincluded:

2015YorkMathematics of Quantum Uncertainty: New Advances and Prospects• PekkaLahti(Turku,Finland)• ReinhardWerner(Hannover,Germany)• MadalinGuta(Nottingham)• PaulBusch(York)

2014INI,CambridgeTheory of Water Waves• MarkGroves(Loughborough,Saarland)• GuidoSchneider(Stuttgart)• SteveShkoller(Oxford)• EugeneVarvaruca(Reading)


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Christopher Zeeman Lecture and Medal Presentation

Rob EastawayWednesday 22 March 2017 at 6.00 p.m. followed by a reception

at The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace,

London, SW1Y 5AG

Registration will open at 5.30 p.m.

Maths, Teamwork and GoogliesAbstract: Maths is usually regarded as a soloactivity,yetsomeoftherichestmathematicalex-periencecancomefromcollaboration:thinkofHardyandRamanujan...LovelaceandBabbage...Duckworth and Lewis. Rob Eastaway takes alight-hearted look back at some of his ownmathematical partnerships that have exploredgames, puzzles, mathematical modelling ofeverydaylife...andeven(alittlebitof)cricket.

Rob EastawaywillgivetheChristopherZeemanLecture and be presented with the Christopher ZeemanMedal, which isawardedbienniallybytheInstituteofMathematicsanditsApplicationsandtheLondonMathematicalSociety.

Admissiontothelectureandreceptionisbyticketonly.ForticketspleasecontactAlisonPenryattheIMA,CatherineRichardsHouse,16NelsonStreet,Southend-on-Sea,[email protected] March 2017.Ticketsarefreeofchargeandwillbeallocatedonafirstcome,firstservedbasis.Pleaseconfirmwhetheryouwishtoattendthelectureandreception,orthelectureonly.


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RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS AT LMS MEETINGS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND SOCIETY MEETING 11 NOVEMBER 2016attheBritishMedicalAssociationHouse,London.About100membersandvisitorswerepresentforallorpartofthemeeting.

The meeting began at 3:00 pm, with the President, Professor Simon Tavaré, FRS, in the Chair.MemberswhohadnotyetvotedwereinvitedtohandtheirballotpaperstotheScrutineers,Profes-sorsChrisLanceandRodneySharp.

TheVice-President,ProfessorJohnGreenlees,presentedareportontheSociety’sactivitiesandthePresidentinvitedquestions.

TheTreasurer, ProfessorRobertCurtis,presentedhis reporton theSociety’sfinancesduring the2015-16financialyearandthePresidentinvitedquestions.

CopiesoftheTrusteesReportfor2015-16weremadeavailableandthePresidentinvitedmemberstoadopttheTrusteesReportfor2015-16byashowofhands.TheTrusteesReportfor2015-16wasadopted.

ThePresidentproposedMessrsKingstonSmithbere-appointedasauditorsfor2016-17andinvitedmembers to approve the re-appointment by a showof hands. Messrs Kingston Smithwere re-appointedasauditorsfor2016-17.

Thirty people were elected to Ordinary Membership: Julio Andrade, Ginestra Bianconi, LauraCiobanu,EmilieDufresne,RalucaEftimie,RadekErban,BharatGajaria, JuliaGog,NargesHaghi,HeatherHarrington,MuhammadKamranJamil,AzadehKhaleghi,LisaLamberti,GandalfLechner,Benjamin Martin, Ime Nkana, John Orr, Roberto Pagliari, Ratana Peang, Clelia Pech, NansenPetrosyan,ElisaPostinghel, FilipRindler,Carola-BibianeSchönlieb,LubnaShaheen,SimonSmith,AwaisTalib,AnithaThillaisundaram,IvanTyukin,IttayWeissandSimonWood.

Eighty-six people were elected to Associate Membership: Mohammed Abdulameer, MichaelAdamer, Andrew Allan, Christos Aravanis, John Armitage, Vahagn Aslanyan, Anvarbek Atayev,NikolaosAthanasiou,EmmaBailey,FrancescaBalestrieri,RaghvendraBansal,TobiasBarker,BartoszBartmanski,JamieBeacom,JoshuaBoddy,JamesCann,MatteoCapoferri,AurelioCarlucci,Paisley-MaeCarter,MatteoCasati,JonathanChetwynd-Diggle,JoshuaCiappara,CristianaDeFilippis,PhilipDittmann,SukruUgurEfem,TimEspin,SebastianEterovic,EliaFioravanti,Marc-AntoineFiset,JamesFoster,KelliFrancis-Staite,JosephineFrench,HadleighFrost,GyorgyPalGeher,FranzGmeineder,EloiseHamilton,EmmetHaverty-Stacke,JoshuaJackson,EllenJolley,AlissaKamilova,SungkyungKang,AdamKeilthy,GulleZahraKhan,KristianKiradjiev,DominikKobos,AttilaKovacs,MatthewLau, JiaweiLi,AlexMargolis,AlejandroMartinez,DavidKohanMargzgão,RichardMathers,AviMayorcas, HouryMelkonian, NatashaMorrison, Elena Natterer, Sina Nejad, AbrahamNg, ChrisNicholls, ShaunChenYangOng,NinaOtter, EdmundAdamPaxton, Imanol Perez,Noemi Picco,SamaraPillay,AdamProsinski,AliRaza,AsbjørnNilsenRiseth,CraigRobertson,CaoimheRooney,CarlosAlfonso,RuizGuido,SanamSachdeva,ThomasSantoli,SimonSchulz,HasanShlaka,SukhdevSingh, IoanStanciu,GrigaliusTaujanskas,DavidThomas,JoeThomas,MaryThoubaan,JonathanTsang,TabeaTscherpel,FedericoVigolo,EleanorWalker,AledWalker,RuoyiWang,YixuanWang,TimothyWestwood,NicholasWilkins,WeiyeYangandFilipZivanovic.

SevenpeoplewereelectedtoReciprocityMembership:FrederickDashiell,Jr,AndréErhardt,ManishGupta,GeoffPrince,StevenRayan,CatherineRobertsandThomasRossWhite.

Seventy-threepeoplewereelectedtoAssociateMembershipforTeacherTrainingScholars:HinaAdham,HowardAdkins,SumayaAhmed,PriyankaAmbasana,LucyArnold,AmandaArthur,Chris-topherBaker,KurtisBateman,PrinaBhanderi,JacobBlair,AlaistairBrown,DiarmuidBrowne,ZaraCarey,AimeeCarmichael,JessicaClifton,KellyCuiEdwards,AmaleeDassanayake,AndrewDoyle,KeithDoyle,ZahrasDuwahir,MaxFawcett,ShaunFields,RebeccaFoxcroft,AlexFunnell,AndreaGalinho,DamienGow,LeeGriffiths,EdwardHamilton,HannahHide,SophieHill,JenniferHolmes,

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LiamHoy,UmarHussain,Domna Idomenea, Ian Jepson, JoyKalombo,AnitaLala,RhiannaLegg,Claire Little,Daniel Lloyd,HelenaMandleberg, ChloeMartin,DavidMaw, IainMessenger, LukeMoores,EmilyMorgan,DorottyaNemeth,RebeccaNew,AnnalisaOcchipinti,FolakemiOmowumi,Claudette Oxford-Campbell, James Paterson, Rebecca Pearce, Simon Pegg, Barbara Pellegrino,DanielPortelli,KevinPritchard,AbiramyRajeswaran,LewisRamster,RebeccaReed,NiamhRegan,EllieRendle,MuhammadMudassarSaeed,TaraSaleh,KiziScott,AlyssaSeverns,EllaShaw,KirsteeSimmons, Harrison Smith, Liam Smith, Olivia Swinscoe, Sally Tattersall, Amelia Taylor, MichaelThompson, Lara Timmins, Jonathan Turley, Michael Walden, Emily Wildig, Jack Wood, DestinaYagmurandWojciehZaremba.

ElevenmemberssignedthebookandwereadmittedtotheSociety.

ThePresident,onCouncil’sbehalf,presentedcertificatestothe2016SocietyPrize-winners:

DeMorganMedal:ProfessorSirTimothyGowers,FRS(Cambridge)FröhlichPrize:ProfessorDominicJoyce,FRS(Oxford)WhiteheadPrizes:DrArendBayer(Edinburgh)andDrCarola-BibianeSchönlieb(Cambridge)

WhiteheadPrizeswerealsoawardedtoDrGustavHolzegel(ImperialCollege)andDrJasonMiller(Cambridge)attheAnnualDinner.

AnneBennettPrize:DrJuliaWolf(Bristol)

ASeniorBerwickPrizewasjointlyawardedtoDrKeisukeHaraofMyndIncandProfessorMasanoriHinooftheUniversityofKyoto.However,theywereunabletocollecttheircertificatesandsotheircertificateshavebeensenttothem.

ProfessorAlanR.Champneys,UniversityofBristol,gavealectureonBumps, blips and bulges; the theory of localised pattern formation.

Aftertea,ProfessorLanceannouncedtheresultsoftheballot.ThefollowingOfficersandMembersoftheCouncilwereelected.

President:SimonTavaréVice-Presidents:KenBrown,JohnGreenleesTreasurer:RobertCurtisGeneralSecretary:StephenHuggettPublicationsSecretary:JohnHuntonProgrammeSecretary:IainA.StewartEducationSecretary:AliceRogersMembers-at-LargeofCouncil(for2yearterms):AlexandreBorovik,TaraBrendle,FrancisW.Clarke,DavidE.Evans,CathyHobbsandSarahZerbesMember-at-Large(Librarian):JuneBarrow-Green

FiveMembers-at-Largewhowere elected for two years in 2015have a year left to serve: TonyGardiner,SamHowison,DianeMaclagan,GwynethStallardandAlinaVdovina.

ThefollowingwereelectedtotheNominatingCommittee:SimonR.Blackburn(1-yearterm),RogerHeath-Brown(3-yearterm),MartaMazzocco(2-yearterm)andUlrikeTillmann(3-yearterm).ThecontinuingmembersoftheNominatingCommitteeare:JohnToland(Chair),SarahReesandAlexWilkie.Councilwillalsoappointarepresentative.

ProfessorS.JonChapman(Oxford)gavetheNaylorLecture2016onAsymptotics beyond all orders: the devil's invention?

Before closing the meeting, Professor Tavaré thanked the retiring members of Council andwelcomedthePresidentDesignate;ProfessorCarolineSeries,FRS.

Professor Tavaré also thanked the speakers at the Graduate StudentMeeting in themorning;Philippe Trinh (Oxford) and Chris Howls (Southampton), and congratulated thewinners of theGraduateStudentTalkPrizes;JoeBailey(Essex)andHouryMelkonian(Heriot-Watt).

Afterthemeeting,areceptionwasheldatBMAHouseintheSnowRoom,followedbytheAnnualDinner,whichwasheldinthePagetSuiteatBMAHouseandattendedby80people.


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Reports, Visits

LMS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: 11 NOVEMBER 2016

LMSVice-President,ProfessorJohnGreenlees,presentingareportontheSociety’sactivities

LMSTreasurer,RobCurtis,presentinghisreportontheSociety’sfinancesduringthe2015-16financialyear

LMSPresidentDesignateCarolineSeriesOlaTornkvistLMSEditorialManager

TimothyGowers,FRS(Cambridge)presentedwiththeDeMorganMedal

AlanChampneys(UniversityofBristol)lectureonBumps, blips and bulges; the theory of localised pattern formation

JonChapman(Oxford),NaylorLecture2016onAsymptotics beyond all orders: the devil's invention?


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LMS GRADUATE STUDENT MEETINGReport

Asagraduatestudent, Iwasgiventheopportu-nitytopresentsomeofmyresearchinashorttalkat the London Mathematical Society GraduateStudentMeetingwhichwasheldon11November2016 in London, prior to the Naylor Lecture intheafternoon,andduringwhichIwasawardedanLMSprizeforthebesttalk.Themeetingwastargeting graduate researchers as well as othermathematicians from different mathematicalbackgrounds.Themeetingprovidedanoutstand-ing,informative,andverywellorganisedenviron-ment,togetherwithanopportunitytonetwork,learn,anddiscusssomeoftherecentdiscoverieswithindifferentmathematicaldisciplines.I am a PhD research student in Mathemat-ics studying at the School ofMathematical andComputerSciencesatHeriot-WattUniversity.Myresearch interests lie in the areas of harmonicanalysis,severalcomplexvariables,andspacesofanalyticfunctions,withinwhichIinvestigatebasis

anddensitypropertiesofsetsofdilatedfunctionsintheBanachspacesLr(0,1),forallr>1.Aspecialemphasis is placed on the case when thesefunctions are the p-cosine functions which aredefinedasderivativesoftheeigenfunctionsp-sineofthenon-linearp-Laplaciandifferentialequationonthesegment(0,1),forallp>1.Theresearchconducted,togetherwithsomerecentpapers,hasthepotentialtointroduceafoundationofFouriertheory of p-sine and p-cosine functions whichcouldhavesomeusefulapplicationsinthestudyofnon-continuoussignals.As a member of the London MathematicalSociety, I encourage every graduate student tobeapartofsuchaprominentorganisationwhichhasthepotentialtosupportmathematicsaswellasmathematiciansforcontinuousprofessionalde-velopment.

HouryMelkonianHeriot-WattUniversity

VISIT OF ZBIGNIEW PALMOWSKIProfessorZbigniewPalmowski(WroclawUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Poland)willvisittheuni-versitiesofLiverpool,ManchesterandLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience(LSE)from1to14February2017.ProfessorZbigniewPalmowskiisaninternationally leading researcher in appliedprob-ability.Hisresearchcoversnumerousapplicationsinfinance,insuranceandqueueingsystems.DuringhisvisitProfessorPalmowskiwillgivelecturesat:• UniversityofLiverpool,Wednesday1Febru-aryat2pm;contactCorinaConstantinescu([email protected])

• UniversityofManchester,Wednesday8Februaryat3pm;contactRonnieLoeffen([email protected])

• LSE,Monday13Februaryat3pm;contactErikBaurdoux([email protected])For further details contact Ronnie Loeffen([email protected]).ThevisitissupportedbyanLMSScheme2grant.

VISIT OF KEVIN BEANLAND

DrKevinBeanland(Washington&LeeUniver-sity,Virginia,USA)willvisittheUKinFebruary/March2017.DrBeanland'sareaofexpertiseisthegeometryofBanachspacesandoperatortheory,especiallytheconstructionofBanachspaceshavingveryrigidstructure.DuringmostofhisvisitDrBeanlandwillbebasedatLancasterUniversity.Hewill lectureineachofthefollowingplaces:• LancasterUniversity,Wednesday22Febru-ary;contactDrNielsLaustsen([email protected])

• UniversityofCambridge,Wednesday8March;contactDrAndrásZsák([email protected])

• UniversityofWarwick,Thursday9March;contactDrTomaszKania([email protected])ForfurtherdetailscontactDrNielsLaustsen([email protected]). The visit issupportedbyanLMSScheme2grant.


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Reports, Records of Proceedings

JOINT MEETING OF THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, AND THE FISHER MEMORIAL TRUSTReport

The 35th FisherMemorial Lecture wasthis year given by Professor NancyReid,ProfessorofStatisticalSciencesattheUniversityofToronto,aspartofaday-long event entitled Data Science: The View From The Mathematical Sciences, held at the Royal StatisticalSociety’s headquarters in London on27October2016.Theeventwasajointmeeting of the London MathematicalSociety, the Royal Statistical Society,andtheFisherMemorialTrust.The opening lecture was given byProfessor Neil Lawrence of theUniver-sityofSheffieldandwasentitledCom-putational Perspectives: Fairness and Awareness in the Analysis of Data.Neilexplainedhowthescaleofmoderndataacquisition is presenting challengesthatnosinglefieldisequippedtofaceandishavingadirecteffectoncitizensand society. Neil advocated that thecomputational and statistical sciencesunite so toprovideaunified responsetothechallengesposedbydatascience.The next lecture was given by DrJohan Koskinen of the University ofMan-chester on Generative and Estimable Models for Longitudinal Social Networks.Johan argued that many social networksare highly complex and rarely amenabletostandardstatisticalanalysis.Heoutlinedanovel approach to the analysis of longi-tudinalsocialnetworks,inspiredbyagent-basedmodellingandsimulationsofsocialprocesses, and illustrated this approachusing a model for moves on the housingmarket. Johan argued that data scienceis what results when we are willing toeschewdisciplinaryboundaries intacklingtheunderstandingofcomplexdata.After tea, The Fisher Lecture was givenbyProfessorNancyReidandwasentitled

Statistical Science and Data Science: Where Do We Go From Here? Nancy is acelebratedtheoretical statistician;shehaswon numerous prizes including the Sta-tisticalSocietyofCanadaGoldmedalandthe Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Medalin Silver for her path-breaking and influ-ential paper “Parameter Orthogonalityand Approximate Conditional Inference”,written jointlywith Sir David Cox (whomshe paid tribute to at the beginning ofher lecture). Nancy is Director of theCanadianStatistical Sciences InstituteandisapastpresidentoftheStatisticalSocietyof Canada. Nancy was introduced to theaudience by the renowned geneticist SirWalter Bodmer, who was himself super-

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vised by Ronald Fisher at Cambridge. SirWalterexplainedthattheFisherMemorialTrustwassetupafterFisherdied,soastocontinuehis legacyandtoencourageandpromotethediscussionofgeneticsandsta-tistics.Nancy’s lecture gave some interestinginsights intohowdata sciencemightbestbeintroducedasanacademicprogramme,and she recounted some of the percep-tionsshehadencounteredwhere“statisti-calscience”wasunfavourablycomparedto“big data”; the latterwas associatedwithbig machines and high-level computingwhereas the former was associated withsmalldata,andthereforeless“fun”.NancywentontodescribesomeoftheworkshehadcarriedoutfortheFields Instituteon“StatisticalInference,Learning,andModelsforBigData”duringthefirsthalfof2015.

Someobservationsfromthisworkarethatwhileitisdifficulttopredictthelong-termimpact of the rush to data science, theredoes seem to be an interesting mix ofboth old and new statistics involved. Shenoted that statisticalmodels for big dataarecomplexandhigh-dimensional;it’snotjustthatthe“n”islarge,butthatthe“p”is also large. Nancy hoped that the areaofdatasciencewilldiscoverthatthe“oldcore” is important, and she concludedthatthenext“bigthing”mightbe“smartdata”.At the end of the discussion followingNancy’slecture,Nancywaspresentedwitha silver bowl that is given to all FisherMemorial Lecturers. Awine reception forallattendeesfollowed.

IainStewartLMSProgrammeSecretary

RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS AT LMS MEETINGS ORDINARY MEETING, 27 OCTOBER 2016at theRoyal Statistical Society (RSS) in Londonas a jointMeetingwith theRoyal StatisticalSocietyandtheFisherMemorialTrust.Over100membersandvisitorswerepresentforallorpartofthemeeting.Themeetingbeganat2.00pmwithTheRoyalStatisticalSociety’sPresident,ProfessorPeterDiggle,intheChair.ProfessorDigglewelcomedguestsandhandedovertoThePresidentoftheLondonMathemati-calSociety,ProfessorSimonTavaréFRS,forthewelcomefromtheLMS.NomemberswereelectedtoMembership.NomemberssignedthebookandwereadmittedtotheSociety.ProfessorTavaréthenintroducedalecturegivenbyProfessorNeilLawrence(Sheffield)titledComputational perspectives: Fairness and awareness in the analysis of data.ProfessorTavaréintroducedthesecondlecturegivenbyDrJohanKoskinen(Manchester)onGenerative and estimable models for longitudinal social networks.Beforebreakingfortea,ProfessorDiggleinvitedProfessorNancyReid(Toronto)toreceivetheRoyalStatisticalSociety’sGuyMedalinSilver.Aftertea,TheChairmanoftheFisherMemorialTrust,ProfessorSirWalterBodmerFRS,intro-ducedthe35thFisherMemorialTrustLecturebyProfessorNancyReid(Toronto)onStatistical science and data science: where do we go from here?Afterthelecture,SirWalterpresentedProfessorReidwithasilverbowltocommemorateherFisherMemorialLecture.AreceptionwasheldattheRoyalStatisticalSociety.AdinnerwashostedbytheFisherMemorialTrustatTheModernPantry,FinsburySquare.


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Meetings

YOUNG GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY MEETING The sixth Young Geometric Group Theory Meeting will be held at the MathematicalInstitute,Oxfordfrom20to24March2017.Contemporary geometric group theory(GGT) encompasses diverse areas of math-ematics and the aim of this meeting is tobringworld-leadingmathematicians inGGTtogether with doctoral students, post-docsand other young researchers, with mini-courses and open discussions on fundamen-tal topics in the area, and plenary lectureson recent breakthroughs. This followsthe format of the recent highly successfulsequenceofYoungGeometricGroupTheory(YGGT) meetings, held previously in Israel,Poland,Belgium,GermanyandFrance.Mini-courseswillbegivenby:

• GoulnaraArzhantseva(Vienna)• EmmanuelBreuillard(Muenster)• MarcBurger(Zurich)• AlanReid(Texas-Austin)In addition, there will be hour-long talksbyTulliaDymarz(Wisconsin-Madison),EnricoLe Donne (Jyväskylä, Finland), Pierre Py(Strasbourg),AnneThomas(Sydney),AlirezaGolsefidy (California-San Diego), HenryWilton (Cambridge) and Montserrat Casals-Ruiz(BasqueCountry).Register at http://tinyurl.com/jz3fcoc. Themeeting is organised by Aditi Kar (RoyalHollowayLondon),JohnMacKay(Bristol)andAnneThomas(Sydney).Themeeting is supported by an LMS Con-ference grant, Clay Mathematical Institute,Heilbronn Institute,Universityof Southamp-tonandMathematicalInstitute,Oxford.

YOUNG FUNCTIONAL ANALYSTS' WORKSHOP The Young Functional Analysts' Workshop(YFAW) will be held at the University ofGlasgowfrom29to31March2017.YFAWisan annual, student-run conference for PhDstudentsandearly career researchers in thevarious subfieldsof functional analysis. This

conference provides an ideal opportunityforPhDstudentstogiveashorttalkontheirresearch in frontofa sympatheticaudience.In addition, there will be expository talksfromfiveestablishedresearchers.Theinvitedspeakersare:• VeroniqueFischer(Bath)• ChrisHeunen(Edinburgh)• NielsLaustsen(Lancaster)• SandraPott(Lund)• MikeWhittaker(Glasgow)At present there are funds to support ac-commodation for around 25 PhD studentparticipants; further information aboutpotentialsupportfortravelwillbeavailablein early 2017. For more information andregistration, visit thewebsiteathttps://sites.google.com/site/yfawuk/ or contact the [email protected] conference is supported by an LMSPostgraduateResearchConferencegrant,theEdinburgh Mathematical Society ResearchSupport Fund, the Glasgow MathematicalJournalTrustandtheSchoolofMathematicsandStatisticsattheUniversityofGlasgow.

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS RESEARCH STUDENTS CONFERENCE The40thResearch Students Conference(RSC)inProbabilityandStatisticswillbeheldfrom18to21April2017atDurhamUniversity.TheRSCisanannualconferencewherepostgrad-uate students from thefields of ProbabilityandStatisticscometogethertopresentanddiscuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere.Therewill be several plenary sessions givenby invited speakers, several contributedsessions, a poster session, and a conferencedinner held in the great hall of DurhamCastle,alongwithsomeothersocialactivitiesintheevenings.The contributed sessions will take theform of shorter talks given by conferencedelegates. All conferencedelegates are en-couragedtopresentashorttalkoraposter,however this isnot compulsory. The invited


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plenaryspeakersare:• PeterAvery(NewcastleUniversity)• NickBingham(ImperialCollegeLondon)• DeniseLievesley(UniversityofOxford)• MichaelGoldstein(DurhamUniversity)Further information about the conferenceand its organisers ([email protected]),alongwithdetailsabouthowtoregisterforthisconferencecanbefoundonthewebsitewww.rsc2017.org.uk. The conference issupportedbyanLMSPostgraduateResearchConferencegrant(Scheme8).

DEVELOPING EFFICIENT METHODOLOGIES FOR MODELLING STOCHASTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS IN BIOLOGYOnMonday 10April 2017 theUniversity ofBathwillhostaninterdisciplinaryconferenceentitledDeveloping Efficient Methodologies for Modelling Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology to celebrate the appointment ofDrChristianYatesasalecturerintheDepart-mentofMathematicalSciences.The aim of this conference is to bringtogetherexpertmathematicians inthefieldof stochastic methodological developmentin order to share methods and analysis, aswell as efficient algorithms for simulationsin an attempt to bridge thewide range ofscalesoverwhichbiologicalsystemsoperate.Completeorapproximateanalyticalsolutions,efficient simulation algorithms and hybridnumerical simulationmethodologies are alltools which facilitate the development ofthe requiredmulti-scalemethodologiesandwhich will be discussed at the conference.Confirmedspeakersare:• RuthBaker(Oxford)• LouiseDyson(Warwick)• RamonGrima(Edinburgh)• ChristianYates(Bath)• KonstantinosZygalakis(Edinburgh)There is a small amount of funding tosupporttravelandaccommodation(ifappro-

priate)forearlycareerresearcherstravelingfrom the UK. Make this clear when youregisterfortheconferenceoneventbrightathttp://tinyurl.com/zq72bpe.Thedeadlineforrequesting support is 30 January 2017 andthe deadline for registration is27 February 2017.Moredetails are at http://tinyurl.com/gqhyckb and for queries email [email protected] conference is supported by an LMSCelebrating New Appointments Conferencegrant,theInstituteforMathematicalInnova-tion, and the Department ofMathematicalSciencesoftheUniversityofBath.

COW AND CALF IN CARDIFFTheworkshop2CinC: COW and Calf in Cardiff will take place at Cardiff University fromThursday 23 to Friday 24 February 2017. Itis a joint two-day meeting of the COWalgebraic geometry seminar and CALF, itsgraduate student offspring. New faces arealsoverywelcome.Itishopedtoexposethemorejuniorparticipantstoacross-sectionofcurrentresearchinterestsinUKandEuropeanalgebraicgeometry,whilegivingthemanop-portunity to present their own results andreceive potentially useful feedback. Moregenerally to encourage interaction and col-laborationacrosstheherd.Speakersare:• HamidAhmadinezhad(Loughborough)• SjoerdBeentjes(Edinburgh)• AnnaBarbieri(Sheffield)• AlastairCraw(Bath)• DomenicoFiorenza(Rome)• ElanaKalashnikov(Imperial)• RobertoLaface(Hannover)• SaraMuhvić(Warwick)• AndreaPetracci(Imperial)• ElisaPostinghel(Loughborough)• RoryPotter(Sheffield)• JasonVanZelm(Liverpool)Anyone interested is welcome to attend.There is some support for accommodationandtravelofjuniorparticipants.Moreinfor-mation can be found at http://tinyurl.com/j94rbxy. The workshop is supported by anLMSConferencegrantandCardiffUniversity.


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A workshop on Mathematical Medicine and Mathematical Pharmacologywilltakeplace at Swansea University from 2 to 3February2017.This is the first sessionoftheBioMathematics@Swansea2017event,organised by the Centre for Biomathe-matics,SwanseaUniversity.The topics covered will span a broadspectrumofproblemsof current interestin oncology and pharmacology and willhopefully stimulate further interactionsand research in novel directions. Therewill be talks on cancer and treatmentmodelling, biomedical modelling tech-niques,andmathematicalpharmacology.Research students and early career re-

searchers are encouraged to apply forcontributed talk or poster presentation.The closing date for registration is 15 January 2017. Some financial support isavailableforstudentsandearlycareerre-searchers.The organisers are Dr Gibin Powathil,Dr Lloyd Bridge and Dr Elaine Crooks.Further information canbe foundat thewebpage: https://mathmedworkshop1.wordpress.com/.The event is supported by an LMS Con-ference grant, the Swansea UniversityCollegeofScience,andtheEPSRC-fundednetworkPOEMS(PredictivemOdellingforhEalthcarethroughMathS).

GROUP ACTIONS AND COHOMOLOGY IN NON-POSITIVE CURVATURE19 – 23 June 2017inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeNon-Positive Curvature Group Actions and Cohomology(3January–23June2017)

The workshop is the closing event of the semester-long programme Non-Positive Curvature, Group Actions, and Cohomology.Itisintendedasamomenttowrapuptheactivities,reflectingthevibrantatmosphereoftheprogramme.Inadditiontoprovidingaforumtodisseminatetheresultsobtainedduringthesemester,theworkshopwillfocusoncohomology,which,inseveraldifferentincarnations,hascometobeoneofthestandardtoolstostudygroupactionsinnon-positivecurvature.Thefollowingtopicswillserveasacentrepieceoftheworkshop:

• Boundedcohomology• CAT(0)cubecomplexes• l2-bettinumbers• theFarrell-Jonesconjecture• l2-torsion• theChernconjecture

Thesynergybetweentheenergygeneratedbytheprogrammeandtherecentexcitingdevelop-mentsintheabovetopicswillprovideaninspiringstartingpointforfutureimportantresearch.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitewww.newton.ac.uk/event/npcw05

Closing date for receipt of applications: 19 March 2017

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QUANTUM TOPOLOGY AND CATEGORIFIED REPRESENTATION THEORY26 – 30 June 2017inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeHomology Theories in Low Dimensional Topology(26June2017-30June2017)

The focus of theworkshop is on interactions between representation theory and the knot in-variantsofquantum topology.On the representation theory side,principleobjectsof interestincludecategorifiedquantumgroups, their2-representation theory,and related structures (W-algebras,currentalgebras,Cherednikalgebras,braidgroups)whichareimportantincategoricalandgeometricrepresentationtheory.Onthetopologicalside,theprincipleobjectsofinterestarelinkhomologies(Khovanovhomology,knotFloerhomology,triply-gradedlinkhomology)aswellasbraidgroupsandmappingclassgroups.

Theworkshopwill invite speakerswho have donework on various topics at the interface oftopologyandrepresentationtheory,including:

1.2-representationsofcategorifiedquantumgroupsandcategorificationatrootsofunity;2.Constructionsofknothomologiesfromcategoricalandgeometricrepresentationtheory;3.Representationtheoreticstructurespresentwithinknothomologytheoriesthemselves;and4.Topologicalconstructionswhoserepresentation-theoreticoriginisnotyetwell-understood.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitewww.newton.ac.uk/event/htlw04

Closing date for receipt of applications: 19 March 2017

The Cambridge-Heriot Watt interdiscipli-narydatascienceworkshoponMathemati-cal Imaging with Partially Unknown Models willbeheldattheUniversityofCambridgefrom20to21February2017.Theaimofthismeeting is to gather an interdisciplinarygroupofleadingimagingexpertsfromtheapplied analysis, statistics, and signal pro-cessingcommunitiesaroundthistopic.Thegoalistopromotesynergyandcross-fertili-sationbetweenthesecommunitiesandsetthebasisforamultidisciplinaryapproachtotheproblem.Plenaryspeakersare:• GabrielPeyré(UniversitéParis-Dauphine)• SilviaVilla(IstitutoItalianodiTecnologiaandMIT)

• YvesWiaux(Heriot-WattUniversity)• JuanCarlosdelosReyes(Escuela

MATHEMATICAL IMAGING WITH PARTIALLY UNKNOWN MODELS

NacionalPolitécnicadeQuito)• JohnAston(UniversityofCambridge)• SamuliSiltanen(UniversityofHelsinki/GrazUniversityofTechnology)The organisers are Marcelo Pereyra (He-riot-Watt) and Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb(Cambridge), alongside local organiserMartin Benning (Cambridge). Formore in-formation visit the workshop website athttp://tinyurl.com/zhewxca.ThemeetingissupportedbyanLMSCon-ferencegrant,theSchoolofMathematicalandComputerSciencesofHeriot-WattUni-versity,theCantabCapitalInstitutefortheMathematicsofInformation,andtheEPSRCCentre for Mathematical and StatisticalAnalysisofMultimodalClinical ImagingattheUniversityofCambridge.


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Apply now!Submission Deadline: February 14, 2017

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) annually connects promising young researchers in mathematics and computer science with the top scientists in their fields. For one week in late summer, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) invites the recipients of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the Fields Medal, and the Nevanlinna Prize to join 200 carefully selected young researchers.

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JOE GANI

Professor JosephMark Gani, whowas elected amember of theLondon Mathe-maticalSocietyon19December1963,died on 12 April2016,aged91.

Alan Welsh and Sue Wilson write:JoeGaniwasbornin Cairo, Egypt

on15December1924.Heattendedschoolsin Cairo and Kobe, Japan, and studiedat Imperial College London, obtaining aBSc (hons) in 1947 and a DIC in 1948. Joemoved toAustralia in 1948andworkedasa lecturer in applied mathematics at theUniversityofMelbournefrom1948-50.Joespent 1951 as a lecturer inmathematics atBirkbeckCollege,London,beforereturningto Australia where heworked in a varietyof jobs before becoming a lecturer at theUniversity of Western Australia. Joe wasassociated with the University of WesternAustraliafrom1953-60.HetookleavefromtheUniversity ofWesternAustralia to joinhis lifelong friend Ted Hannan as the firstPhDstudentsinStatisticsatANU;theybothcompletedtheirPhDsunderthesupervisionof P.A.P. (Pat) Moran, graduating in 1955.Joe took further leave to spend 1956-7 attheUniversityofManchesterwithaNuffieldFellowshipand1959atColumbiaUniversity,NewYork. Joewas a Senior Fellow in Sta-tistics at theAustralianNationalUniversityinPatMoran'sdepartment(intheInstituteofAdvancedStudies)from1961-4.Hethenwentoverseas,becomingaProfessorintheDepartment of Statistics atMichigan StateUniversityfrom1964-65andthenProfessorin the Department of Probability and Sta-tistics at The University of Sheffield from1965-74. JoewasDirectorof theManches-ter-SheffieldSchoolofProbabilityandStatis-ticsfrom1967-74.HereturnedtoCanberra

to become Chief of the CSIRO Division ofMathematicsandStatistics(DMS)from1974-81.FromDMS,hebecameProfessorofSta-tistics at the University of Kentucky from1981-85 and then a Professor in the Statis-ticsandAppliedProbabilityProgramattheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbarafrom1985-94.Joeretiredin1994andreturnedtoCanberraasaVisitingFellowintheSchoolofMathematicalSciences(nowtheMathemati-calSciencesInstitute).JoeremainedactiveinMSIuntilearly2015whenabadfallreducedhismobility.Joe's PhD research was on the theory ofdamsandstorage,anareasuggestedbyPatMoranwhowasdoinghisowninitialworkin the area at the time, and on inferenceonMarkov chains. Both remained lifelongintereststhathereturnedtothroughouthiscareer.TheinterestininferenceonMarkovChains led to the use ofMarkov chains inthestatisticalstudyofliterarytexts.Joealsodevelopedalong-terminterestinbiologicalmodelling.Hisinterestingenetics,sparkedoffbyhiswifeRuthwhowasabiologistbytraining and by Pat Moran's research, ledto research on stochasticmodels for bacte-riophages. Exposure inManchester to theresearch of Maurice Bartlett on epidemicsledtohisownresearchonstochasticmodelsforepidemics.BothofthesecreatedmajorthemeswithinJoe'sresearch.Joe founded the Journal of Applied Prob-

ability in 1964 with the support of theLondonMathematical Society, Ted Hannanand Norma McArthur who, together withJoe, became trustees of the Applied Prob-abilityTrust. He foundeda second journalinappliedprobability,Advances in Applied Probability,in1969,aswellasMathematical SpectrumandThe Mathematical Scientist.Joewas elected a Fellow of the Instituteof Mathematical Statistics in 1966, the In-ternational Statistical Institute in 1968 andtheAustralianAcademyofScience in1976.He was made an Honorary Life Fellow ofthe Royal Statistical Society in 1982 andan Honorary Life Member of the Statisti-cal Society of Australia in 1983. Joe was

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awardedthePitmanMedaloftheStatisticalSocietyofAustraliain1994andwasmadeaMember of theOrder ofAustralia (AM) in2000.The transcript of the very interestinginterview (with more details about Joe'slifeandinsightsintothekindofpersonhewas) conducted by Eugene Seneta for the

Academy of Science is available at http://tinyurl.com/j55exl7. An earlier interviewconducted by Chris Heyde is available athttp://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2246194.pdf.JoewaspredeceasedbyhiswifeRuthandis survived by his four children Jonathan,Miriam, Matthew and Sarah, and theirchildren.

Anthony Ellul Williams, who was electeda member of the London MathematicalSocietyon 15 June 1944, diedon 7August2016,aged96.

Sara Paget writes:TonyWilliamswasborn,anonlychild,on18July1920inBirmingham,andwasbroughtupbyhisparentsanduncleinLeamingtonSpa.Abrightchild,hewentto Leamington Boys’ College at the age ofeleven,wherehisbestfriendwasD.J.Enright,thepoetandnovelist.In1997DennisEnrightwrote to Tony: ‘I was disgusted when youturnedfrommusictomathematics!’Tony’s father was a natural pianist, andTony took up the saxophone, which heplayed in a RAF dance band during WW2.(Becauseofhisfragilehealth,havinghadTBwhenyounger,hedidnotfly.)Heretaineda passion with great knowledge of bothclassicalmusicandjazzthroughoutallofhislong life. Hemet hiswifeMargaret, fromBlackpool,duringthewar,andtheymarriedin1942.Margaretdiedin1988:theyhadnochildren.

During his time in the RAF, TonycompletedanexternaldegreecourseinMathematics,viaDowningCollege,Cambridge.Whenhewasdemobbedin1946,hewenttoworkattheScien-tificComputingServiceLtd,23BedfordSquare,London,runbyDrL.J.Comrie,whohadbeenSuperintendentoftheNauticalAlmanacOfficeatGreenwich,buthadhadarowwiththeAdmiraltyoverthemisuseofGovernmentcalcu-lations. "When he heard that I wasplanning to join the Scientific CivilService,[Comrie]triedtopersuademe

otherwise, saying that I could go to ElliottBrothersatBorehamwood.AnywayIjoinedtheRoyalNavalScientificService,andfrom1947 worked at the Admiralty CompassObservatory in Slough as an ExperimentalOfficer,appointedtobe‘themathematician’.IendedupintheDepartmentofOperationalResearch inWhitehall, until, in 1953, as anSSO, I was lent to the Admiralty ResearchLaboratory for the job at Portballintrae,NorthernIreland."Fromthere,inthelate1950s,TonybecameHead of Mathematics and ComputingDivisionfortheAdmiraltyUnderwaterEstab-lishmentDivision,whichbecametheMinistryofDefence, based at PortlandBill, until heretired at sixty years of age. He retainedhis interest in mathematics in his retire-ment,workingonrelativitytheoryinhislateeighties.Healwaysdescribedhimself as a ‘friendlyrecluse’;onefaithfulfriendwhohadknownhim for some sixty years, described him as‘thelastgentlemanIknow’.

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THE CASE OF THE ACADEMICIAN NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH LUZINeditedbySergeiDemidov,BorisV.Lëvshin,translatedbyRogerCooke,AMSHistoryofMathematics,V.43,2016,pp416,£59.95,US$59,ISBN978-1470426088.

The Moscow math-ematical school,which flourishedduringthe“goldenyears”ofthesixtieswascreatedbytwomen: D.F. Egorov(1869-1931) and N.Luzin(1883-1950).When the “Luzinaffair” startedin 1936, repres-sion was already

brutally striking intellectuals in general andmathematicians in particular. Egorov hadbeen exiled to Kazan where he went onhunger strikeand starved todeath in1931.N.M.Gunther,professoratLeningradUniver-sity, who inspired the generalized functionsof Sobolev, had been forced to retire fromhispositionastheheadofthemathematicalcommunity in Leningrad and Luzin left hispositionattheUniversityofMoscow.After a vicious polemic against Luzin in

Pravda, probably initiated by E. Kolman, azealous ideologue, Luzin was accused ofstealingresultsfromhisstudents,sendingoneofthem(M.Y.Suslin)offtodieintheprovinces.Hewasalsoaccusedofsystematicallyandde-liberately acting contrary to the interests oftheUSSR.All these accusations, many of themsupportedbyLuzin’sstudents,ledtoahearingintheacademyofSciencesconsistingoffivesessionsinJulyof1936of“The Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the matter of Academician N. Luzin”. Their transcripts con-stitute the essential part of this remarkablebook.Whathappened to Luzinmighthavebeenone more example of the tragic times ofStalin’s Russia in the thirties. Although theaccusers, especially his best student Alexan-drov,thoughtthattheiractionswouldremain

a secret, a carbon copy of the notes of thehearingwasdiscoveredinthe1990s.These notes reveal the fights and dissen-sionsbetween the twogenerationsofmath-ematicians,Luzinagainsthisstudents,soontobecomethebestmathematiciansinRussia,Al-exandrov,Kolmogorovandmanyotherstesti-fyingagainsttheirteacher.Theseattackscouldverywellhavesenthimtoexileorevendeath.Inamilder formthis conflictbetweengen-erations occurred in the West as well. Forexample, in France with Denjoy-Baire-Leb-esguefightingagainstWeilandCartan[G-K].Luzin had been collaborating with Frenchmathematiciansandtheywerereadytohelphim, although under the influence of theCommunistPartysomelikeHadamardrefusedtomanifestanysolidarity.André Weil, one of the founders of theBourbaki group was invited to the First In-ternational Conference on Topology, inSeptember 1936, that was organised by hisfriendAlexandrov.WeilbehavedasastrongsupporterofAlexandrovandof the StalinistregimeatthepeakofStalinistrepression!Herealizedhismistakelater[W]butdidnotsayawordforLuzin.ThisshowedaradicallydifferentattitudetothatofhissisterSimonewhoalwaysputmoralityandhumanityabovesocio-political reasons. The case of AndreWeilwasstudiedcarefullybyPierreDugac,aFrench historian ofmathematics. Because ofWeil’sunpleasantattitudehedidnotdaretopublishhisconclusionsinFrench[DY].Dugacpreferred to keep it for the Russian version[D2].In the end, Luzin was saved from prisonor worse when the hearings were abruptlyhalted, evidently on direct orders from theCentralCommitteeoftheCommunistParty.Itmaybethatthedecisionwasinfluencedbyaletter sentby thedistinguished scientistPetrKapitsa to Molotov in support of the greatmathematician.

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An epilogue to this Shakespeariantragedywasgiven-butmaybenotthelastword-in 2012due to theactionof S.Ku-tateladze and other Russian mathemati-cians from the Academy. The PresidiumthenrehabilitatedthememoryofLuzin.This important work of the history ofScience is of a very high quality (eventhoughthereareerrorsintheindexandcaptions to photos), oneof the “devoirsde memoire” (duties to remember) ac-complished in the domain of Russianscience and technology in the twentiethcentury. One can only hope that thistask will continue to be pursued anddeepened.

Jean-MichelKantorInstitutMathématiquedeJussieu,Paris

References

[D] Histoire de l’analyse: autour de la notion delimite et de ses voisinages, Paris, Vuibert, 2003, p.306-320

[DY]Dugac-Youskevitch,L’affairedel’académicienLuzin de 1936 Gazette des mathématiciens, 38(Octobre1988),p.31-35

[D2] ПДюгак ДЕЛО (ЛУЗИНА И ФРАНЦУЗСКИЕ МАТЕМАТИКИІ) Публикация, введение и примечания www.ihst.ru/projects/sohist/papers/imi/2000/142.pdf

[G-K] L. Graham, J-M. Kantor,Naming Infinity:Atruestoryofreligiousmysticismandmathematicalcreativity,HarvardUniversityPress,2009

[K]S.Kutateladze,http://www.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/case_e.html

[W] A. Weil, Euvres scientifiques, Vol.1, Springer1979

[Z]S.Zdravkovska,P.Durren,eds.,ThegoldenyearsofMoscowmathematics

NAMING INFINITY: A TRUE STORY OF RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM AND MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITYbyLorenGrahamandJean-MichelKantor,BelknapPress,2009,£20.95,ISBN978-0674032934.

The book Naming Infinity by LorenGraham and Jean-Michel Kantor, ref-erencedabove,hasapparently neverbeen reviewed bytheLMSNewslettersonowwe include,with permission,a version of thereview from TimesHigher Education(30 April 2009)

writtenbyTonyMann.Thefullreviewcanbefoundathttp://tinyurl.com/z5vbfsr.Thisabsorbingbooktellsastonishingstoriesabout some of themost important develop-ments inmathematicsof thepast century. Itbegins with an episode thatmight seem tohavelittletodowiththediscipline:theattackin1913byaRussiangunboatonthePantalei-monMonasteryonMountAthos.Thiswasanattempttosuppressthecontroversialdoctrineof "Name Worshipping", which centred on

thepracticeof chanting thenamesofChristandGod toachieveanecstatic trance.Afterthe storming of the monastery, the NameWorshipperswentundergroundinRussia,butadherents continued the practice even aftertheRevolution.The authors' thesis is that Name Worship-ping underlay the development of descrip-tive set theory, the study of subsets of therealnumberlineandoneofthemajorareasof20th-centurymathematics:thisarosefromthe work of Georg Cantor on infinity andwasdevelopedbytheFrenchmathematiciansEmile Borel,Henri Lebesgue andReneBaire,before being taken up in Russia by DmitriEgorovandothers.NamingInfinityarguesthatEgorovandhiscolleagues Pavel Florensky andNikolai LuzinwereinfluencedbyNameWorshippingandbyanalogiesbetweenthenamingofsets,whichinasensebringsthemintoexistence,andthemystical power of the name of God in the"JesusPrayer"incantedbyNameWorshippers.First, we are told about Borel, LebesgueandBaire.Thisstoryisnotanentirelyhappy


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one: we hear of Baire's chronic depressionandeventualsuicide,andhowLebesgueandBorel fell out over mathematical and socialissues.Developmentsindescriptivesettheorythenmoved from France to Russia. There isan argument that the Name-Worshippingsympathies of Egorov, Florensky and Luzinhelped them to deal with this abstract anddemanding area of mathematics, while theFrench,lackingthisreligiousinspiration,wereunabletomakeprogress.The authors certainly make a plausiblecase for the importanceofmysticalbelief ininspiring the Russian mathematicians: theirprovocative claim is that "Two differentcultural contexts led to contrasting results:Frenchskepticismandhesitation,Russiancre-ativityandadvancement...areligiousheresywasinstrumentalinhelpingthebirthofanewfieldofmodernmathematics".Perhaps the most moving section of thebookisthatdealingwiththefamousMoscowSchool of Mathematics in Soviet times. Itsorigins are traced to the Lusitania seminarestablishedby Egorov and Luzin (the sourceof the name "Lusitania" is obscure). The en-thusiasmthattheseteachersinspiredintheirstudents is clearly conveyed, as is the atmos-phereof intellectualexcitement,despite thefreezinglecturerooms(therulethatlecturescouldnottakeplaceiftheroomtemperaturefellbelow-5Cwasignored).The excitement was not just mathemati-cal: the charismatic Luzin attracted femalestudents, and there seems to have been astronghomosexualcommunityattheheartofLusitania,too.Itisgoodtohavethesefactorsacknowledged: mathematics is placed in itshumancontext.The cold and the food shortages werenot the only problems facing mathematicsin Stalin's Moscow, and those with knownreligiousbeliefswereinanespeciallyprecari-ousposition.Egorov,perhapsnaively,arguedthat universities should tolerate diversebeliefs:hewasimprisonedinthecityofKazan,wherehediedintragiccircumstancesin1931.Florensky, who habitually wore his priest'srobes at scientific congresses, was sent to a

prison camp and, despite his significant sci-entificcontributionstotheSovietUnion,wasshotin1937.Luzin,muchmorediscreetabouthis religious beliefs, nevertheless fell foul oftheauthoritiesandwastriedasanenemyofthe state. The book's description of Luzin'strialisriveting:hewassavedbythesecretin-tervention of Peter Kapitsa, the high-profilephysicist,whointercededwithStalin.Luzin'strialheardevidencefrommanyjuniormembersoftheMoscowSchoolofMathemat-ics,andthisgraphicallyillustratestheshatter-ingdilemmasfacingscientistsatthetime.The brilliant young Lev Schnirel'man, whomadeasignificantbreakthroughinGoldbach'sconjecture (still unproven today), committedsuicideafterbeinginterrogatedbythesecretpoliceand coerced to incriminate colleagues.ManyotherscriticisedLuzinatthetimeofhistrial:theyhadlittlechoice.The book has its heroes, most notablyNikolaiChebotaryov,whosacrificedhiscareerby resigning his post in Moscow when hediscovered that his predecessor, Egorov, hadbeen unfairly dismissed. In a remarkable co-incidence,ChebotaryovandhiswifecaredforEgorovbeforehisdeathinKazan.The book has one prominent villain, thecareeristMarxistmathematicianErnstKol'man,who led the campaigns against Egorov andLuzin. But all the characters are drawnwithhumanvirtuesanddemerits,astheydidwhatwas necessary to survive in impossible condi-tions,andalsopursuedmoremundaneobjec-tives such as career progression and priorityclaims.InGrahamandKantor'stelling,mathe-maticsappearsasathoroughlyhumanactivity.Twotrulygreatfiguresin20th-centurymath-ematics,PavelAlexandrovandAndreiKolmog-orov, who as homosexuals were particularlyvulnerable, were forced publicly to supportthe Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko and tocriticise Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Kolmogorovspokeat theendofhis lifeofhis perpetualfear of the secret police. More happily, wehearoftheimportanceofswimmingtoAlex-androv and Kolmogorov, and its connectionwithmathematicalinspiration.Wearegivensympatheticaccountsofother

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membersoftheMoscowSchoolofMathemat-ics,includingthetragicfiguresofPavelUryson,whodrownedinanaccidentinFranceattheage of 26, and Nina Bari, who committedsuicidebythrowingherselfunderatrainaftereditingherloverLuzin'smathematicalpapersforpublicationafterhisdeath.EvenKol'manisperhapspartiallyredeemedbyhislaterconfes-sionthathewas"sincerelydeluded,nourishedbyillusionswhichlaterdeceivedme".At thispoint thebookhaswanderedsomeway from the topic of the religious inspira-tion for descriptive set theory. But this rein-forces thebook's theme thatmathematics isahumanactivity,influenceddecisivelybythebeliefsandlifechoicesofpractitioners.Thebookisgenerouslyillustrated,withmanyphotographsand,onthecover,anevocativepainting of Florensky in his robes. However,itbetrays itsdoubleauthorship inanumberof minor ways. Names are not consistentlytransliterated-forexample,isthepoetAndreiBely or Andrey? - and occasionally someoneismentioned before they are introduced by

a later paragraph. Little attempt ismade toexplain the mathematics, although it couldhardlybeotherwiseinabooksuchasthis:spe-cialistswillknowthedetailsalready,andthemathematicsistoodifficultfornon-specialists.But, for the reader who is prepared totake on trust the value of the mathemat-ics, the stories told are fascinating. The con-clusion draws parallels between the Name-WorshippingbeliefsofEgorov,Florenskyandperhaps Luzin, and the mystical philosophyofAlexanderGrothendieck,oneof themostenigmatic mathematicians of the late 20thcentury.This is a remarkablebook, illuminating thehistory of 20th-century mathematics and itspractitioners.Thestoriesittellsareimportantandtoo littleknown. It isclearlya labourofloveanddeservesawideaudience:itisanout-standingportrayalofmathematicsasafunda-mentallyhumanactivityandmathematiciansashumanbeings.

TonyMannUniversityofGreenwich

Sir David Wallace Lecture 2017

Professor Cédric Villani, University of Lyon

Of triangles, gases, prices and men

Friday 20 January 2017, 5pm, West Park Teaching Hub

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You are cordially invited to attend the Sublime Symmetry Symposium: Celebrating William De Morgan and

synergies between mathematics and art.

London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57 – 58 Russell Sq, London, WC1B 4HS

13th January 2017, from 09.30 – 17.00

The event is free to attend, but RSVP through eventbright: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sublime-symmetry-symposium-tickets-29650930732

Sublime Symmetry is the De Morgan Foundation’s major 2016-17 exhibition which is currently touring the UK. Through innovative research, it presents William De Morgan, one of the most notable and innovative ceramic designers of the Victorian period, as a designer with an incredible mathematical sensitivity.

This symposium supports the exhibition by bringing together academics and speakers from mathematic, arts and education backgrounds who will present the research they have undertaken into De Morgan’s use of mathematics.

Confirmed speakers include:v Claire Longworth, Curator of the De Morgan Foundation v Sarah Hardy, Sublime Symmetry Exhibition Curatorv Prof. Alexandre Borovik, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Manchesterv Prof. June Barrow-Green, Professor of History of Mathematics, The Open Universityv Dr. Christopher Jordan, independent historian

Refreshments and lunch will be provided. There will be time for questions to the speakers and an opportunity for networking in our evening reception.

We look forward to seeing you there,Sarah Hardy, on behalf of the De Morgan Foundation

We are most grateful to the London Mathematical Society and the Esmée Fairbairn Collection Fund for their generous support of this event.


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