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The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Chr. Stenseth has announced that Professor Yakov G. Sinai, Princeton University, USA, and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences has been awarded the 2014 Abel Prize ‘for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics’. The Abel Prize has been awarded annually since 2003 and carries a cash award of NOK 6,000,000 (about EUR 750,000 or USD 1 million).

Dr David Platt, a researcher at the University of Bristol, won the Gold medal (sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute) at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of his mathematics research, walking away with a £3,000 prize. This is the first time a mathematical sciences section has been included in SET for Britain.

Hundreds of early career researchers to descend on Parliament.

For the largest national event of its kind, 210 early career scientists, engineers and mathematicians will arrive in Parliament on Monday 17 March to compete for the coveted Westminster Medal while exhibiting their groundbreaking research to politicians during SET for Britain 2014.

Do you know someone who is thinking about becoming a maths teacher?

Women in Mathematics Day is an annual event and members are asked to encourage women mathematicians, particularly students (including final year undergraduates) and those at an early stage of their career, to attend this meeting. Postgraduates, postdocs and research assistants are invited to participate in the event by giving a talk or presenting a poster.

The call for applications for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2014 is now open. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a unique opportunity for excellent young mathematicians and computer scientists to meet eminent experts from both fields in a very special environment. The first Forum took place in September 2013 and brought together outstanding students in mathematics and computer science with winners of the most prestigious awards in these two disciplines: Abel, Fields, Nevanlinna and Turing.

The eminent French mathematician Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is to become the next President of the European Research Council (ERC) based in Brussels. Bourguignon will take up the role in January 2014.

From 1994 until August 2013 Bourguignon was director of France’s Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies in Bures-sur-Yvette and will take over from Helga Nowotny, who has been ERC President since 2010. The position will also include the responsibilities of secretary-general.

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) are delighted to be able to continue working together to deliver Mathematics Teacher Training Scholarships for a second year.

The winners of the 2013 SET Awards were announced at a ceremony in Kensington Town Hall attended by students, academics and business leaders. A record numbers of entries were received for the 2013 awards.

The Award for the Best Mathematics Student, judged by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society, went to William Perry, University of Oxford, for his work on spin two-dimensional local field theories. According to the judges the entries for this year’s mathematics category were of an extremely high standard.

The number of A-level mathematics entries across the UK is up 2.7% on last year, with 88,060 students sitting the exam.

Figures released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications also show that: