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Sir Christopher Zeeman, FRS, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday 13th February 2016 at home in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, aged 91. Sir Christopher was the Founding Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He later served as President of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) from 1986 to 1988 and as Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. He is survived by his wife, Lady Rosemary Zeeman and his six children.

At the Special General Meeting held on 5 February 2016, the motion put before the membership was:

Instruct the Council to continue publication of the аĿª½±Journal of Computation and Mathematics as a charitable activity, thus reversing the Council’s decision to close down the Journal.

The motion was not carried. Votes were, 158 against the motion, 131 for the motion, and one abstention.

The Alan Turing Institute has announced the appointment of Professor Andrew Blake, currently Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, as its first Director. Professor Blake will join the Institute in October. Along with the announcement of its new Director the Institute has marked its first few days of operations with the confirmation of £10 million of research funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a research partnership with GCHQ, a collaboration with Cray Inc. and EPSRC, and its first research activities.

The аĿª½±Election Forum 2015 is available . Members are encouraged to contribute. 

The Nominating Committee slates for the 2015 аĿª½±Elections are available

The results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) were announced today.

Professor Martin Hairer FRS, University of Warwick becomes the ninth UK based mathematician to win the prestigious Fields Medal over its 80 year history. The medal recipients were announced today in a ceremony at the four yearly International Congress for Mathematicians, which on this occasion is being held in Seoul, South Korea.

We are pleased to announce that the first paper has been published in the new journal Transactions of the London Mathematical Society. The paper, ‘A weak*-topological dichotomy with applications in operator theory’ by Tomasz Kania, Piotr Koszmider and Niels J. Laustsen, is freely available via .