Update 17th March 2020: please note that, owing to the ongoing situation with COVID-19/Coronavirus, this event has been postponed. Any future updates regarding the event will be announced on the аĿª½±and IMA website in due course.
Date: Thursday 23 April 2020. Registration will open at 6pm and the event will start at 6:30pm.
The International Science Council (ISC) Gender Gap in Science project has announced the publication of its final report A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences .
The three-year project (2017–2019) was funded by the International Science Council (ISC) and involved eleven scientific partner organisations. The main goal of the project was to investigate the gender gap in STEM disciplines from different angles, globally and across disciplines.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has announced the appointment of a new Executive Secretary. Caroline Wallace will take up her new post as аĿª½±Executive Secretary on 6 April 2020.
The government has announced additional funding for the Mathematical Sciences of up to £300 million, which will more than double the current funding for the Mathematical Sciences delivered by EPSRC.
It includes:
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like to congratulate Professor Sir Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London) who has been awarded the Wolf Prize for Mathematics, jointly with Professor Yakos Eliashberg (Stanford University). Sir Simon receives the award for his contributions to differential geometry and topology.
The Wolf Foundation inaugurated the Wolf Prize in 1978, awarding the Prize to academics who have made ‘significant breakthroughs and extraordinary achievements in agriculture, mathematics, medicine, physics, chemistry and the arts’.
The deadline to send nominations for аĿª½±Prizes in 2020 is 31st January. Send your nominations to prizes@lms.ac.uk. Details at /news-entry/26092019-1222/lms-prizes-2020-call-nominations.
It is with regret that the London Mathematical Society (LMS) has learned of the death of Professor Walter Hayman FRS on 1 January 2020.
Professor Hayman was a longstanding member of the LMS, having been elected to membership on 20 March 1947. He was awarded the аĿª½±De Morgan Medal in 1995 and was also awarded the аĿª½±Berwick Prize in 1955 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1964. He was an аĿª½±Vice President from 1982-1984. Other major honours included his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) would like extend its warmest congratulations to its former Treasurer, Professor Nicholas Woodhouse who was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to mathematics.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has announced that the 40th General Conference of UNESCO has proclaimed that March 14 (pi day 3.14) will from now on be the International Day of Mathematics (IDM).
As March 14, 2020 is a Saturday, the international official launch will take place on Friday March 13, 2020. There will be two parallel international events: in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters, and at the Einstein Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.