For its help with the design of the new 拢50 bank note featuring Alan Turing, the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has been presented with a low serial number (AA01 001936) version by the Bank of England. The presentation took place on 23 June, the anniversary of Turing鈥檚 birth, and the day that the new 拢50 bank note went into circulation.
The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate 新澳开奖Council Member Professor Minhyong Kim on being appointed Director of the ICMS and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at both Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. Professor Kim is the first full-time director of the ICMS and the first joint professor in the Maxwell Institute and will take up the post in September 2021.
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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has issued a call for nominations of candidates for the Abel Prize 2022.
The Abel Prize, which amounts to NOK 7.5 million, recognises outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics and applications of mathematics in the sciences.
The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) is delighted to announce that Professor Alison Etheridge OBE, FRS, FIMA will be its new Chair. Professor Etheridge is Professor of Probability and member of the Mathematical Institute and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. She will become Chair of the CMS in September 2021, succeeding Professor Sir Ian Diamond DL, FBA, FRSE, FacSS, National Statistician.
In February the London Mathematical Society issued a statement in response to a proposal by the University of Leicester to reduce significantly the size of its Pure Mathematics Group and to stop supporting research in this area. We understand that the university has now begun to implement its plans, which include compulsory redundancies, voluntary severance packages, and moving some staff to predominantly (80%) teaching contracts.
This event is being organised online by the Azat Miftakhov committee in solidarity with Azat Miftakhov, a graduate student from Moscow State University who has been detained by Russian state authorities for almost two and a half years.
The 新澳开奖is delighted to announce that it has recently become possible for US taxpayers to make tax-deductible donations to the LMS. Previously such an option has not been available, and this may have been an issue for people wishing to make donations in the past. There are about 175 新澳开奖members living in the US and the arrangements also apply to US taxpayers living elsewhere.
For the 铿乺st time the team representing the UK at the European Girls鈥 Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) has brought home two gold medals. The team also won further silver and bronze medals, with each team member receiving a medal.