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It is with deep regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones on 6^th September.

Sir Vaughan was a highly distinguished mathematician.Ìý He received the Fields Medal in Kyoto Japan in 1990 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year. In 2002 he was appointed Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mathematics and in that same year became an Honorary Member of the LMS. ÌýIn 2018 he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Ìý

Applications for the 2020-21 UK-Lebanon Fellowships are now open. The scheme, set up in 2019 in memory of Sir Michael Atiyah, provides for Fellows to travel in either direction between Lebanon and the UK. The closing date is October 31st 2020. More details are available here.
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You may have noticed that our website home page has changed a bit recently. We’ve kept Dr Nicholas Schmitt’s beautiful ‘twisted pseudospheres’ image, but we’ve updated the layout of the page to make it easier to use and less cluttered. In particular, we hope that the new design allows users to navigate quickly to the content they need, such as guidance on how to apply for a grant or submit a paper. We’re still working on a couple of further refinements, like making the Society’s logo appear as sharply as possible on the page and improving how the page appears on mobile phones.

Thanks to a generous donation from Dr Tony Hill, the аĿª½±has started work on a new venture to support the provision of online tutoring for A-level Mathematics students who come from backgrounds that are under-represented in the mathematics community.Ìý

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The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate аĿª½±members Professor Bryan Birch FRS (University of Oxford) and Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge) on receiving prestigious Royal Society awards.