The Society held its first ever virtual Annual General Meeting on Friday 20 November 2020. The meeting was moved online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and was well attended, with over 100 participants able to attend without travelling to central London. The Society was very grateful for technical and administrative support for the meeting from the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS).
The meeting included a presentation about the Society’s events and activities by аĿª½±Vice-President, Professor Iain Gordon and a summary of the Society’s accounts for 2019-20 by аĿª½±Treasurer, Professor Rob Curtis.
The AGM also covered Society business, with voting on resolutions and the announcement of the 2020 аĿª½±election results. Congratulations were recorded for the 2020 аĿª½±prize winners and the 276 mathematicians elected to аĿª½±membership.
The аĿª½±President, Professor Jon Keating, thanked retiring members of аĿª½±Council and in particular Professors Rob Curtis and Stephen Huggett who stepped down as аĿª½±Treasurer (2011-2020) and General Secretary (2012-2020) respectively. The President also welcomed Professor Ulrike Tillman (University of Oxford) as President-Designate.
The AGM was followed by the Naylor Lecture - The Mathematics of Today's Floating-Point Arithmetic - presented by Professor Nicholas J Higham, University of Manchester.
The virtual event was a great success in the current circumstances. The Society would like to thank Members for their flexibility in adapting to this new way of working, and to thank staff for all the careful thought and planning that went into ensuring that the meeting ran smoothly. We look forward to being able to meet аĿª½±Members and other mathematicians in person soon, not least at the 2021 AGM and Annual Dinner.