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Forthcoming WHAT HAPPENS applications of the idea of ‘sta- bility’ from geometric invariant Society AT YOUR AGM? theory. Meetings The Annual General Meeting of Following the adjournment the London Mathematical for tea, Dr D.J. Collins, the scru- 2005 Society will take place on Friday tineer, will declare the results of London 18 November 2005 at 3.15pm in the ballot. Annual General the Chemistry Auditorium, The newly-elected President Meeting University College London. At will take the Chair and invite B. Totaro the AGM the following events Professor Frances Kirwan to F.C. Kirwan will happen: give her Presidential Address [page 3] Members bringing their bal- entitled Yang-Mills theory and lot papers will have a last Tamagawa numbers: the fasci- 1 2006 opportunity to vote. nation of unexpected links in Friday 10 February The Society’s Treasurer, mathematics. London Professor N.M.J. Woodhouse, The AGM will be followed by G. Segal will present his report on the a reception at De Morgan U. Tillmann past year and invite questions. House for those members (Mary Cartwright A list of nominations for elec- attending the Annual Dinner at Lecture) tion to membership to the The Montague Hotel at 7.30 [page 21] Society will be submitted for pm. The cost of the Annual approval by the meeting. Dinner is £36.00 per person and Monday 15 May Any member present who has members may book places for Leicester paid their first subscription and guests. The booking form, Midlands Regional not yet been admitted to the enclosed with the October Meeting Society will have the opportuni- Newsletter, should be returned M. Bridson ty to sign the Membership Book together with payment to the A. Goncharov which dates back to the origin London Mathematical Society A. Zelevinsky of the Society in 1865. office by Monday 14 November. The LMS President, Professor Friday 16 June F.C. Kirwan, will present certifi- EPSRC-FUNDED London cates to the 2005 Prizewinners. Yu Manin The Society 2005 Prizewinners STUDENTS AND (Hardy Lecture) were announced at the June LMS MEMBERSHIP Society meeting and published Friday 3 July in the July Newsletter. The LMS is one of several learned Leeds Professor Burt Totaro, the societies that are taking part in a Northern Regional first of two speakers at the scheme with EPSRC to offer ‘free’ Meeting Society Meeting, will give a talk membership to EPSRC-funded U. Haagerup on Dividing sheep from goats: students. Under this scheme
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EPSRC will meet the costs of students’ subscrip- INVITATION TO WRITE ... They should be well-illustrated, and This project proposes to pilot a mentoring tions (but not journals) for up to five years. detailed mathematics should be kept to relationship between mathematicians in the Students will benefit from free membership VISIONS OF THE FUTURE a minimum. All will be refereed against UK and African colleagues, together with their of the Society and consequently enjoy access Leading young scientists, world-wide, are these criteria. students. It focuses on cultivating longer-term to a range of services that will benefit their invited to contribute to the 2006 Royal The best articles in the Christmas issue will mentoring relations between individual mathe- further professional development. In particu- Society’s Christmas issue of Phil. Trans. be considered for inclusion in the new Royal maticians and students. Rather than simply sup- lar, participation in events (conferences, net- R. Soc. A. This is the world’s longest running Society Series on Advances in Science. The porting mathematics conferences and work- works, etc) and keeping more closely in touch scientific journal, and all issues, from 1665, first book in this series, entitled Advances in shops in Anglophone countries in which math- with activities in the mathematics community. are archived electronically by JSTOR in the Astronomy: from Big Bang to the Solar ematicians from the UK participate, this project The EPSRC hopes this will strengthen links USA (www.jstor.org), accessible through uni- System (ed. J.M.T. Thompson) will appear will concentrate on the creation of joint with the students it sponsors and enable it to versity libraries. shortly, published by ImperialCollege Press. research projects between UK mathematicians, conduct a long-term evaluation of how its The 2006 issue will be devoted to For more details of the Christmas series see their colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa, and doc- students have developed their careers beyond Mathematics & Physics. Any young scientist www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/philtransa. toral students of those colleagues. During the their first destinations. The LMS and EPSRC (with less than 12 years’ post doctoral two-year project period the aim is to create five will also benefit from closer collaboration. experience) who wishes to contribute should MENTORING mentoring collaborations in mathematical Further details of the scheme are available send an email now to the editor, Michael research and two in mathematics education. on the EPSRC website (www.epsrc.ac.uk). The Thompson ([email protected]). This AFRICAN RESEARCH IN We are looking for UK mathematicians inter- membership application form for the Society should contain a one–page abstract and a MATHEMATICS: CALL FOR ested in being part of these mentoring collabo- 2 has an additional section to obtain the infor- short CV. Abstracts will be assessed in mid rations. We welcome expressions of interest from 3 mation required. Email membership November 2005, and successful candidates PROSPECTIVE MENTORS those with no prior experience of collaborating @lms.ac.uk for an application form or down- will be asked to submit a paper by The Nuffield Foundation has recently award- with research workers in Africa, as well as from load one from the LMS website February 2006. ed a grant of £105,000 for a two-year pilot those with existing links with African research. (www.lms.ac.uk/contact/membership.html). Authors should present some cutting project to support mathematics and its teach- We will expect a willingness to make at least Members are encouraged to make their edge research, put it into a wider context, ing in the Anglophone countries of sub- one short visit to Africa and to host a short students aware of, and sign up, for this and look forward to new developments. Saharan Africa. The grant has been awarded visit from Africa, as well as a commitment to a scheme. Enquiries should be directed to Peter Articles should be timely, topical, and jointly to the London Mathematical Society continuing mentoring responsibility. Cooper at the Society ([email protected]). written for a general scientific audience. (LMS), the International Mathematical Union The trustees will evaluate the success of the (IMU) (www.mathunion.org), and the African collaborations by asking the following questions: Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative • For research collaborations, has the research (AMMSI) (www.ammsi-maths.org). collaboration resulted in a mathematical LMS Newsletter This project is designed to counter the math- publication in a research mathematics jour- ematics ‘brain-drain’ from sub-Saharan Africa nal of international standing? Or has the col- General Editor: Dr D.R.J. Chillingworth ([email protected]) by supporting qualified mathematics profes- laboration produced an MSc or PhD thesis? Reports Editor: Dr S.A. 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FACES Most of these concern the design of the application forms or details of the ways in COMPETITION 2006 which we present the guidelines for the How many faces do you recognise on the front grants, with the intention of clarifying our cover of this year’s Publications catalogue requirements and procedures. As always, LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (enclosed with this mailing of the Newsletter)? however, we would welcome comments from All of the people are connected to mathemat- our applicants and grant holders on whether Annual General Meeting ics or the LMS in some way or another. CUP has we have achieved this! kindly donated a prize of your choice of 10 We have also made two bigger changes. Friday 18 November 2005 books from the Lecture Notes and Student First, under Scheme 1 (conference grants) we Texts, to whoever can come up with correct have now restored the maximum to £5,000, by identifications to the largest number of people. restoring the maximum basic grant (primarily 3.15 – 3.30 Annual General Meeting Further details of the competition can be found intended for speakers) to £3,000. However, on the back cover of the catalogue. please note that it is still the case that the 3.30 – 4.30 Professor B. Totaro (Cambridge) Group applications are welcome – get Programme Committee's budget is under Dividing sheep from goats: applications together at lunchtime and play spot the pressure, and we are not always able to make of the idea of ‘stability’ from geometric mathematician! awards as often or as fully as we would like. invariant theory Second, we will be discontinuing Scheme 6 4 LMS PROGRAMME at the end of August 2006, as there has been 4.30 – 5.00 Tea 5 very little demand for it. COMMITTEE It may be that our current schemes are 5.00 – 6.00 Professor F.C. Kirwan FRS (Oxford) Small adjustments to the grant schemes inadvertently excluding potentially valuable Presidential Address At its September meeting, Programme Commi- modes of support. Programme Committee Yang-Mills theory and Tamagawa numbers: the ttee reviewed all of its grant schemes and pro- would very much welcome suggestions for posed a number of small adjustments, which changes or additions to the schemes. fascination of unexpected links in mathematics have since been agreed by Council. These changes Stephen Huggett will be implemented over the next month or so. Programme Secretary The meeting will be held in the Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, University College London, Programme Committee has awarded grants to support the following conferences and meetings. 20 Gordon Street, London WC1. Please note the early start. These are open to all members. If you wish to attend, or would like more information, please contact the organiser. There are limited funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of members of the Society or research students Date/Venue Title Organiser/email to attend the meeting. Requests for support, including an estimate of expenses, may be addressed to the Programme 16-17 December 2005 Sklyanin Algebras and V.B. Kuznetsov Leeds Beyond [email protected] Secretary at the Society (web: www.lms.ac.uk; email: [email protected]). 4-5 January 2006 A Meeting in Memory of J. Billingham Reading Professor Andy King [email protected] The meeting will be followed by the Annual Dinner. For further details see the announcement in this Newsletter. All enquiries 9-10 January 2006 Mathematics of F. Theil Warwick Biomolecules [email protected] may be addressed to Susan Oakes (tel: 020 7637 3686, email: [email protected]). 30 June – 5 July 2006 Computability in Europe A. Beckmann Swansea 2006: Logical Approaches [email protected] to Computational Barriers THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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THE ABEL PRIZE 2006 HOMOTOPY THEORY Call for Nominations CONFERENCE The Norwegian Academy of Science and A short homotopy theory conference will Letters is calling for nominations of candi- take place at the University of Sheffield on dates for the Abel Prize 2006. The Abel 11-14 January 2006. The conference is Prize, which was awarded for the first time partly supported by an LMS conference in 2003, amounts to NOK 6 million (approx- grant. The first talk of the conference will imately 750,000). It is an international start at 2:00 on Wednesday 11 January and prize for outstanding scientific work in the end at lunchtime on Saturday 14 January. field of mathematics, including mathemat- Details of the programme will be ical aspects of computer science, mathe- announced nearer the time. The following matical physics, probability, numerical people have provisionally accepted invita- analysis and scientific computing, statistics, tions to speak. and also applications of mathematics in the • Matthew Ando (Urbana-Champaign) sciences. • Dave Benson (Aberdeen) The prize is to recognize contributions to • Bob Bruner (Wayne State) mathematics and its applications of • Natàlia Castellana (Barcelona) 6 extraordinary depth and influence. Such • Hans-Werner Henn (Strasbourg) 7 work may have resolved fundamental • Kathryn Hess (Lausanne) problems, created powerful new tech- • Rick Jardine (Western Ontario) niques, introduced unifying principles or • Michael Joachim (Münster) opened up major new areas. The intent is • Nick Kuhn (Virginia) to award prizes over the course of time in • Gerd Laures (Bochum) a wide range of areas of mathematics and • Holger Reich (Münster) its applications. • Charles Rezk (Urbana-Champaign) The Abel Committee will submit a recom- • John Rognes (Oslo) mendation of a candidate for the Abel Prize • Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) to the Norwegian Academy of Science and • Steve Wilson (Johns Hopkins) Letters, which will select the Abel laureate on For further information contact the basis of this recommendation. The name the organisers John Greenlees, Neil of the Abel laureate will be announced on Strickland, Sarah Whitehouse or visit 23 March 2006. www.shef.ac.uk/personal/p/pm1saw/ The nomination letter should contain a SHM-C.htm. CV and a description of the candidate’s work, together with names of distinguished VISIT OF H.V. DEDANIA specialists in the field of the nominee who can be contacted for independent opinion. Dr Haresh V. Dedania (Reader in The letter should be sent, no later than Mathematics, Sardar Patel University, India) 15 November 2005, to The Norwegian is visiting the School of Mathematics, Academy of Science and Letters, University of Leeds, until mid-July. His inter- Drammensveien 78, NO-0271 Oslo, Norway. ests are in the areas of Banach Algebras and It is possible to nominate candidates by Harmonic Analysis. The latter part of his visit using the online submission form. For fur- is supported by an LMS Scheme 5 grant. You ther information visit the website can contact Haresh at pmthvd@maths. www.abelprisen.no. leeds.ac.uk. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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MATHEMATICS AT EPSRC relating to research grant funding coming from EPSRC’s Mathematical Sciences Doctoral Training Allocations Programme for the financial years 2001/2- Recently, some confusion has arisen about the 2003/4, we have compiled a similar set of Programme's plans for the allocation of train- data for the financial year 2004/5. It is pre- ing resources for the mathematical sciences sented in such a way as to be as consistent as programme element of a university's doctoral possible with the data that were published training grant. We have no plans to change last year. By making such data available, we the mechanism for allocating resources for hope to establish a greater degree of under- mathematical sciences departments. standing about recent funding rates through The Mathematical Sciences Programme is the Programme. It is important to realise that the only EPSRC Programme that allocates its much of this information is already available Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) resources to the whole research community via EPSRC’s using a process advised by peer review and website, using the Grants on the web grants based on data provided by departments eli- progress checker and panel finder. gible to be considered for receipt of funding for the training of PhD students in the math- Statistics Mobility Fellowships ematical sciences. The basic framework for A working group met over the summer to 8 this process was developed following consul- work with us in deciding whether there is 9 tation with the research community (led by merit in any further action to address the Professor Adrian Smith) prior to the intro- concerns raised by the International Review duction of doctoral training accounts in 2001. in relation to statistics. The working group Recognising that the Mathematical Sciences was set up on the advice of the Mathematical are very different from other areas of Sciences SAT and its members were Professors Engineering and the Physical Sciences, the Isham (UCL), Roberts (Lancaster), Green only entry condition is that a whole depart- (Bristol), Holmes (Oxford) and Dryden ment should be in receipt of some current (Nottingham). It was recognised that a num- EPSRC grant funding from the Mathematical ber of initiatives have already started aimed Sciences Programme (and here we also include at increasing the numbers of academic statis- income from fellowships and small grants). ticians by recruiting people with a back- Information about the peer review process ground in statistics. However, it was noted and proformas for the return of data and that world-wide there are not enough statis- information to support this year's DTG allo- ticians to go round. The working group came cation process was issued to eligible depart- up with the idea of funding for academics ments. The submissions provide departments from another discipline to move into statis- with an opportunity to argue for and provide tics. The advantages for statistics is that the evidence in support of an increase to their rigorous training in many other disciplines doctoral training grant allocation. We do not (and in particular the physical sciences and advise the panel to concentrate resources in computer science) would provide potential large universities or to disperse resources statistics researchers with relevant skills. across a large number of universities, but to Statistics as a discipline offers exiting consider the case departments have put for- research challenges and the potential for ward in their return on an individual basis. rapid career progression in academia. EPSRC has decided to pilot ‘statistics mobil- Mathematical Sciences Funding Data 2004-2005 ity fellowships’ for applicants within 10 years Following the publication, last year, of data of their PhD who do not have a permanent
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position. The fellowship will be for up to 3 for funding the courses, either through DTA Factory event, you will have the chance to NEWS FROM THE IMU years with the expectation that in the first or CTA resources or via other funds. The call take part in the sand-pit and potentially year the fellow will familiarise him/herself is being developed and should be issued in access £1 million research funding. The clos- Developing Countries Strategy Group with the subject while the second and third early November with a closing date in ing date for this call is midday Wednesday Member societies and their affiliated bodies year will be spent carrying out research in March. Although the grant would be 2 November 2005. have been enthusiastically responding to statistical theory or generic methodology. announced in July 2006, these courses would IMU President John Ball's New Year appeal to The applicant must be linked to a statistics not be available to their first intake of Maths for Engineers Summer Schools increase the mathematics community's sup- mentor who will help them write the appli- students until October 2007. – call for proposals port for mathematics and the study of math- cation and ensure they have the necessary EPSRC plans to invest £250k on the develop- ematics in developing countries. In response, skills enhancement to carry out a research Mathematical Analysis working group ment of a series of training courses aimed at the Chinese Mathematical Society hosted six project in statistical theory or generic statisti- A working group also met over the summer increasing the mathematical competencies of foreign delegates from developing countries cal methodology. This type of fellowship is a to discuss the issue regarding Mathematical UK postgraduate engineers, and exposing at their 70th Anniversary ‘Conference first for EPSRC and will need active participa- Analysis, as raised by the International them to the latest mathematical techniques. Mathematics 2005: Opportunity and tion from the statistics community, as poten- Review. This meeting, attended by Ball Proposals for summer schools are sought to Challenge’, which took place in Weihei, P.R. tial applicants will need to be identified, con- (Oxford), Gillespie (Edinburgh) and Falconer address specific areas of engineering China, from 25 – 29 July. The delegates com- vinced of the merits of statistics as an exciting (St Andrews) was very much a preliminary research. The aim of this initiative is to: prised mathematicians from Cambodia, and interesting research field and supported meeting in an attempt to understand exactly • provide postgraduate students with a Kenya, P.D.R. Lao and Vietnam, as well as two through both the application process and what the review meant by ‘Hard Analysis’, greater understanding and knowledge of from South Africa. 10 through the fellowship, if successful. The call which other areas of Analysis should be contemporary mathematical techniques in In addition to local expenses, provided by 11 will be issued late October/early November included, and who the key players in the UK core areas of engineering research; their Chinese hosts, delegate travel was sup- with a closing date in March 2006 for a start are that work in this area. As a result of the • provide an opportunity for Engineering ported by the mathematical societies of in October 2006. If successful, EPSRC will give discussions, a question has been added to this PhD students to network with fellow stu- Japan and the USA, as well as the London serious consideration to subsequent calls. year's DTG Pro forma enquiring about the dents, academic tutors and where appro- Mathematical Society, the International number of Mathematical Analysis PhD priate industrialists. Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics Studentship Working Group students currently studying in the UK. We • applications may be made in any area of (CIMPA, France) and the International A working group met over the summer to intend to extend these discussions to the engineering, within the remit of the Science Programme of Uppsala University work with us in deciding what the wider community before any decisions are EPSRC. Summer Schools should focus on a (Sweden). Programme might consider doing with the made about addressing the problem. specific engineering topic of benefit to at The International Mathematical Union and limited resources we have to try to address least 30 UK based engineering PhD stu- its Developing Countries Strategy Group the concerns raised by the International Mathematical Sciences CASE project call dents. gratefully acknowledge the generosity and Review about the international academic The Mathematical Sciences Programme Each Summer School should: support of all the member societies con- competitiveness of the UK PhD. The working invites applications for collaborative PhD stu- • focus on the underpinning mathematical cerned. Visit www.ictp.trieste.it/~dcsg. group was set up on the advice of the dentships projects in mathematics, statistics techniques required for the identified engi- Mathematical Sciences SAT and its members and operational research, which will provide neering theme, covering the newest math- UMALCA were Professors Greenlees (Sheffield), Stuart the student with good training in the mathe- ematical methods /techniques available; The 14th Latin American School of (Warwick), Bridson (Imperial), Carberry matical sciences. The closing date for this call • ideally be run as a collaborative effort Mathematics (XIV ELAM) will be held in Solis (Edinburgh), Linton (Loughborough) and is 1 December 2005. between Engineers and Mathematicians, Resort, Uruguay on 1-9 December 2005. For Weatherill (Swansea). The group felt that and could involve applicants from multiple further information visit the website: the resources, which will be drawn from IDEAS Factory – new call for ideas institutions. http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/elam. within the existing Programme budgets, The IDEAS Factory is an EPSRC innovation Where appropriate involve industry, to could best be used to set up some centres designed to combine new ways of generat- demonstrate the application of mathemati- 2005 Ramanujan Prize (actual or virtual) which would provide ing research direction with new approaches cal techniques. Closing date for applications Marcelo Viana, Instituto de Matemática Pura pump-priming funding for taught courses to peer review. This call is an invitation to is midday on 6 December 2005. e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil, has been awarded for 1st year PhD students. It is expected that encourage suggestions for topics which Information on all the above items can be the first-ever Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize. For at the completion of the pump-priming peri- might attract EPSRC and IDEAS Factory fund- obtained from the EPSRC website: further information visit the website: od universities would take on responsibility ing. If your topic is chosen for an IDEAS www.epsrc.ac.uk. http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=110.
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ICM 2006 population of 150 million. However, 50 years shops and symposia on all aspects of the For all enquiries about ICMS or the proce- The list of the plenary speakers of ICM2006 is : ago there were not even ten! In fact, the mathematical sciences in new or traditional dures for submitting a proposal, please con- • Percy Deift (Courant Institute of PhDs have quadrupled in the last 15 years. subjects and interdisciplinary areas with sig- tact Tracey Dart, Executive Secretary, ICMS, Mathematical Sciences, USA) The first indigenous PhD was produced nificant mathematical content. 14 India Street, Edinburgh EH3 6EZ (email • Jean-Pierre Demailly (Université Joseph about 30 years ago and by now about 40 have ICMS particularly welcomes proposals for [email protected]; tel +44 (0)131 220 Fourier, France) been produced. Of these not more than a workshops in rapidly-developing and newly- 1777; fax +44 (0)131 220 1053). • Ronald DeVore (University of South handful contributed steadily to research in emerging areas where there is a need to Carolina, USA) Pakistan. Recent Government policies – offer- evaluate new developments quickly. The Preliminary programme of workshops • Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University, USA) ing attractive salaries to foreign faculty, Programme Committee will consider propos- in 2006: • Étienne Ghys (École Normale Supérieure de increased salaries and tax relief for teachers als three times each year: in March, July and • 3-manifolds after Perelman Lyon, France) and researchers, better facilities, scholarships December. Submissions will be accepted at 13-17 March, organised by C. Gordon, • Richard Hamilton (Columbia University, for students – are improving the situation. any time but applicants should allow suffi- J. Howie and A. Reid USA) Nevertheless, not enough good students are cient time (we recommend three clear • Mathematical population genetics • Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers University, USA) entering a mathematics-based career because months) for proposals to be reviewed and for 27-31 March, organised by N.H. Barton • Iain Johnstone (Stanford University, USA) there is virtually no employment of mathe- the proposers to react to the referees’ com- and A.M. Etheridge • Kazuya Kato (Kyoto University, Japan) maticians in the private sector outside educa- ments. Therefore, normally proposals should • Quantile regression, LMS method and • Robert V. Kohn (Courant Institute of tion, and mathematics (non-PhD) graduates be received by the last day of: robust statistics in the 21st century Mathematical Sciences, USA) can only get (low-demand) jobs in schools and • November in order to be considered in March; 19-23 June, organised by K. Yu, P. Ng, 12 • Ib Madsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) colleges. The situation will not improve until • March in order to be considered in July; J. Stander and Y. Feng 13 • Arkadi Nemirovski (Technion – Israel we can absorb mathematics graduates into • August in order to be considered in December. • Applied asymptotics and modelling Institute of Technology, Israel) the mainstream of our economy. Organisers can expect to receive comments 26-30 June, organised by C.J. Howls and • Sorin Popa (University of California, It is by no means clear how to improve our from reviewers about eight weeks after the A.B. Olde Daalhuis USA) situation. We hope that by direct contact with submission deadline. Applicants should bear in • New directions in applied probability: • Alfio Quarteroni (École Polytechnique the world community of mathematicians, mind the time needed to plan the meeting if a stochastic networks and beyond Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) which we hope that the IMU will provide, we proposal is accepted for inclusion in the ICMS 10-14 July, organised by • Oded Schramm (Microsoft Corporation, will learn how to manage our mathematical Workshop Programme. Small meetings can be T. Konstantopoulos, S. Foss and S. Zachary USA) development better, more main-stream organized in 6-8 months from acceptance; oth- • Extremal Kähler metrics and stability • Richard P. Stanley (Massachusetts Institute research will be undertaken and more rele- ers may require at least 12 months’ planning. 17-21 July, organised by C. Le Brun, of Technology, USA) vant mathematics will be developed here. Potential organisers should contact ICMS M. Singer and R. Thomas • Terence Tao (University of California, USA) Asghar Qadir as early as possible to discuss ideas before • Algebraic theory of differential equations • Juan Luis Vázquez (Universidad Autónoma Chair of the Committee for Pakistan submitting a firm proposal. The proposal 7-12 August (dates provisional, preceded de Madrid, Spain) document should not normally exceed five by the LMS Invited Lectures, 30 July – • Michèle Vergne (École Polytechnique, THE INTERNATIONAL pages and should be submitted electronically 5 August) organised by M.A.H. MacCallum, France) (pdf, ps, Word or dvi). Full instructions on A.V. Mikhailov, M.F. Singer and S. P. Tsarev • Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced CENTRE FOR how to submit a proposal, together with • Credit risk under Lévy models Study, USA) MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES details of the refereeing process and criteria 20-22 September, organised by The list of the invited Section Lecturers can for selection, can be found on the web pages A.E. Kyprianou and W. Schoutens be found on the web site:www.icm2006.org. Call for Proposals www.icms.org.uk/call/index.html. Successful applicants will be offered a funding Many of the workshops at ICMS are organ- A New Member Country: Pakistan Proposals are now invited for workshops to package to contribute to the travel and subsis- ized in 6-8 months from acceptance, hence it Pakistan's population of PhDs in be held at the International Centre for tence of a proportion of the participants. ICMS is probable that other meetings will be added Mathematics has been shifting on account of Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh staff will undertake all non-scientific adminis- over the next months. Check www.icms.org.uk/ the brain-drain endemic to the Third World, in the later part of 2006 or in 2007. The ICMS tration connected with the workshop. One of meetings/index.html for additional meetings the resident Mathematics community is based in central Edinburgh, in the birth- the Scientific Organisers (often an author of the and for full details of the individual work- (excluding Statistics and Computer Science) place of James Clerk Maxwell. With support initial proposal) will be appointed Principal shops. All workshops will be held in consisting of less than 150 PhDs, despite its from EPSRC, the ICMS is able to offer work- Organiser and be the main point of contact. Edinburgh, the majority at 14 India Street. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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INTEGRABLE DAY IN tion, including help with accommodation, tion and the conference dinner. However, members to prize committees; it supports visit the website www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/ we have funds to cover the costs of eight mathematicians in less well-off countries; it LOUGHBOROUGH ~pmtwc/sklyanin or contact Vadim research students. To register, please email promotes congresses, summer schools, math- A half-day workshop on Integrable Kuznetsov (email: [email protected]. John Billingham at John.Billingham@ ematical meetings, mathematical prizes; its Systems will be held at Loughborough ac.uk, tel: 0113 343 5119). The meeting is Nottingham.ac.uk. For further details, go not-for-profit publishing house now pro- University, Room W145 on 25 November. The supported by a London Mathematical to www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/pmzjb1/ duces high-quality mathematics books speakers are: Society grant. There is some funding avail- ACK.htm. A special issue of the IMA Journal and journals. • Ian Strachan (Glasgow) Duality for Jacobi able to support participation by research of Applied Mathematics dedicated to Andy, The Society has gained a voice in many group orbit spaces students – please contact Vadim and containing contributions from most places and it will continue to act on what it • Igor Loutsenko (Oxford) Integrability in Kuznetsov. of the speakers, will appear after the thinks is your behalf. But it needs you as a free boundary problems meeting. member, either simply taking note of what • Nick Manton (Cambridge) Skyrmions and MEETING IN MEMORY OF the Society does, or better, protesting when nuclei you think the Society is wrong, or better still, • Alexander Odesski (Manchester) PROFESSOR ANDY KING taking part in the Society’s Council or Introduction to elliptic algebras Professor Andy King, who died in January one of its committees. It is easy to join: just This is one of the joint meetings of the of this year, was an outstanding applied tick the EMS box on the LMS membership Integrable Systems groups from mathematician, with wide-ranging research renewal form. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and interests. At this meeting, fifteen of David Salinger 16 Loughborough universities, which are sup- his friends and collaborators will give invit- EMS Publicity Officer 17 ported by the London Mathematical ed talks on subjects relevant to Andy's work. Society. Funds may be available to support Topics will include industrial mathematical ONE-DAY MEETING the attendance of postgraduate research modelling, reaction-diffusion equations, Please join the European students. Enquiries should be addressed to free surface flows and combustion. IN BATH the organiser: A.P.Veselov@ lboro.ac.uk or Confirmed speakers are: Mathematical Society To honour Professor L.E. Fraenkel there will 01509 222866. • David Abrahams (Manchester) Since its inception, the number of national be a one-day meeting on 16 December in • John Billingham (Nottingham) mathematical societies belonging to the Bath followed by a dinner. Speakers include: SKLYANIN ALGEBRAS • Stephen Decent (Birmingham) European Mathematical Society has D.E. Edmunds, W.K. Hayman, V. Maz'ya, J.B. • Sam Falle (Leeds) increased. The number of mathematical insti- McLeod, L. Tartar. For further details email AND BEYOND • John King (Nottingham) tutes which have signed up has also grown. [email protected] or visit the website A meeting on Integrable Systems and • John Merkin (Leeds) But the number of individual members has www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci. Noncommutative Algebra will be held in the • David Needham (Reading) remained stubbornly between 2,200 School of Mathematics, University of Leeds • John Ockendon (Oxford) and 2,300. 5ECM from 2.00 pm on Friday until 6.00 pm on • David Riley (Nottingham) We need individual members, because First announcement Saturday, 16-17 December. The speakers • Ruben Schulkes (Norsk Hydro) they add weight to the Society’s claim to will be: • Nigel Scott (East Anglia) speak for European mathematics. You may The Fifth European Congress of • Vladimir Bavula (Sheffield) • Gary Sharpe (Birmingham) think that it’s too grand a claim: there are Mathematics (5ECM) is organised under the • Kenneth Brown (Glasgow) • Yulii Shikhmurzaev (Birmingham) indeed issues on which it is hard to find a pol- auspices of the European Mathematical • Edward Corrigan (York) • Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (East Anglia) icy which all mathematicians can sign up to. Society and the Koninklijk Wiskundig • Edwin Langmann (KTH, Stockholm) • Graham Wilks (Keele) But there are junctures in the long conversa- Genootschap (Royal Dutch Mathematical • Dmitry Lebedev (Moscow) The meeting will be held at the tion of European scientific policy-making Society). It will be held at the RAI Congress • Alexander Odesskii (Manchester) University of Reading, where Andy was a where, without the EMS, mathematicians Center, Amsterdam, from 14-18 July 2008. • Vitaly Tarasov (Indiana-Purdue) Special Professor. The meeting will start at would have no voice and our particular needs Complete the form on the website • Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) 1.30 pm on 4 January and end at 3.30 pm would be ignored. (www.5ecm.nl) in order to receive the sec- The organizers are Vadim Kuznetsov on 5 January 2006. All are welcome to The Society talks to European policy-mak- ond announcement due in September 2006, (Leeds), Bill Crawley-Boevey (Leeds) and attend, but a registration fee of £50 will be ers; it protests at threatened closures of and information on registration and hotel Maxim Nazarov (York). For more informa- charged to cover overnight accommoda- mathematics departments; it nominates reservations. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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EINSTEIN v NEWTON a) fundamental mathematical problems aris- ing in the analysis of theoretical and compu- To commemorate the expedition led by Sir tational models of biomolecules Arthur Eddington FRS to West Africa and b)new mathematical tools which might be South America in 1919 which confirmed helpful for the identification of suitable Einstein's theory of relativity and helped to coarse grained models to describe solutes or launch Einstein on a world stage (prior to the the solvent they are embedded in. expedition's findings Einstein had not been a The invited speakers are: publicly recognisable figure), the Royal • Stefan Adams (Leipzig, Germany) Society is holding a discussion to consider • Chun Liu (Penn State, USA) both the scientific legacies and cultural • Oscar Gonzalez (Austin, USA) iconographies of Einstein and Newton. • Amos Maritan (Padova, Italy) Arguing for Einstein will be Dr Jim Al-Khalili • Theo Odijk (Delft, Netherlands) and Dr Mark Lythgoe, while the Newton team • Rudolf Podgornik (Ljubljana, Slovenia) consists of Sir John Enderby FRS and Dr Patricia • Christof Schuette (Berlin, Germany) Fara. The discussion will be chaired by • Matthew S. Turner (Warwick, UK) Professor Marcus Du Sautoy (Mathematical For further information contact Florian Theil Institute, Oxford) on 23 November at 6.30 at ([email protected]). This workshop 18 the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, is supported by an LMS conference grant. 19 London SW1Y 5AG. Admission is free, on a first come first served basis. No tickets are JORDAN STRUCTURES IN issued or reservations taken. ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY SING 2 and XVI IMGTA Recent years have seen many important devel- opments and applications of Jordan structures The Spain Italy Netherlands Conference on in geometry, analysis and operator algebras. An Game Theory (SING 2) and the Italian international conference on Jordan Structures Meeting on Game Theory and Applications in Analysis and Geometry will be held from 3-7 (XVI IMGTA) will take place in Foggia, Italy, April 2006 at the National Sun Yat-sen from 14-17 June 2006. It is open to game the- University in Taiwan, supported by the Taiwan orists from all over the world, the areas of National Science Council and the Sun Yat-sen interest covering all aspects of Game Theory, University. Confirmed main speakers include: its applications and its practice. For further • L.G. Brown (Purdue) information visit the conference website • C-H. Chu (London) www.dsems.unifg.it/sing2. • C.M. Edwards (Oxford) • Y. Friedman (Jerusalem) MATHEMATICS OF • W. Kaup (Tübingen) • K. McCrimmon (Virginia) BIOMOLECULES • H. Upmeier (Marburg) A workshop on Mathematics of • P-Y. Wu (Chiao-Tung) Biomolecules will take place at the Some funds are available to young researchers Mathematics Institute, Warwick University, and PhD students. For further information and from 9-10 January 2006. The workshop will registration contact the organisers Professor gather mathematicians and physicists inter- Cho-Ho Chu ([email protected]) or Professor ested in modelling biomolecules. The objec- Ngai-Ching Wong ([email protected]) or tive is to identify: visit: www.math.nsysu.edu.tw/~wong/wjs2006. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE THE INSTITUTE OF 2006 in Singapore. The Organizing LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Committee consists of Michael Todd (Cornell Principles of the Dynamics MATHEMATICS AND University), Jie Sun (National University of MARY CARTWRIGHT LECTURE of Non-Equilibrium Systems ITS APPLICATIONS Singapore) and Kim-Chuan Toh (National 9 January – 30 June 2006 University of Singapore). Friday 19 February 2006 Organisers: M.R. Evans (Edinburgh), S. Franz Forthcoming Conferences The programme will provide a forum for Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher (ICTP, Trieste), C. Godreche (SPEC, Saclay), • Third IMA Younger Members’ Conference, the exchange of ideas among researchers Ingold Building, University College D. Mukamel (Weizmann Institute) Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford, working in theory, applications, algorithms, London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1 19 November 2005 and software development of SDP. It will con- Workshops: • Cryptography and Coding X, Royal sist of tutorials and a workshop, with ample Graeme Segal (Oxford University) Relaxation dynamics of macroscopic systems Agricultural College, Cirencester, 19-21 opportunities for collaborative research Mary Cartwright Lecture 9 January – 13 January December 2005 among local and international participants. Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford University) Non-equilibrium dynamics of interacting par- • Mathematical Education of Engineers V, The tutorials will take place from 9-10 There are limited funds available to ticle systems Loughborough University , 11-13 April 2006 January followed by the workshop from contribute in part to the expenses of 27 March – 7 April • Mathematics in Heat, Mass and Fluid 11-13 January. members of the Society or research First-passage and extreme value problems in Transfer, Bradford, 2006 For general enquiries email students to attend the Society meeting. random processes • Mathematics of Complexity, Warwick, [email protected]. For enquiries on the sci- Requests for support, including an 26 June – 30 June September 2006 entific aspects of the programme email Kim- estimate of expenses, may be addressed 20 Visit the website www.newton.cam.ac.uk/ • Flood Risk Analysis II, Plymouth, September Chuan Toh ([email protected]). Further to the Programme Secretary at the 21 programmes/PDS for full details on how to 2006 information and registration, can be found Society (web: www.lms.ac.uk; apply for these workshops. • Mathematics in Communications III, Royal on the website: www.ims.nus.edu.sg/ email: [email protected]). Agricultural College, Cirencester, December Programs/semidefinite/index.htm. Logic and Algorithms 2006 16 January – 7 July 2006 Co-sponsored Conference Organisers: A. Dawar (Cambridge), M.Y. Vardi The Second International Workshop on (Rice) Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Singular Problems, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, Workshops: 6-8 September 2006. Finite and algorithmic model theory For further details of all these conferences (Satellite meeting at Durham) visit www.ima.org.uk or contact Lucy Nye, 9-13 January Conference Officer, The Institute of Logic and databases Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine 27 February – 3 March Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend- Mathematics of constraint satisfaction: logic, on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF (direct line: 01702 algebra and graph theory 356104; switchboard: 01702 354020; email: (Satellite meeting at Oxford) [email protected]; fax: 01702 354111). 20-24 March New directions in proof complexity SEMIDEFINITE 10-13 April Constraints and verification PROGRAMMING AND 8-12 May ITS APPLICATIONS Games and verification 3-7 July The Institute for Mathematical Sciences Visit the website www.newton.cam.ac.uk/ (Singapore) is organizing a programme on programmes/LAA for full details on how to Semidefinite Programming (SDP). The pro- apply for these workshops. gramme will take place from 1-31 January THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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LMS SOUTH-WEST to Szemerédi’s theorem and to arithmetic progressions of primes. AND SOUTH WALES In the mornings there were mini-lecture REGIONAL MEETING series by Bernard Host, Roger Heath-Brown, RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS Imre Ruzsa, Terry Tao and myself. Bernard AND WORKSHOP 2005 and Roger were charged with the difficult AT MEETINGS The SW and SW regional meeting of the LMS task of explaining parts of their subjects was held at the University of Bristol on (ergodic theory and analytic number theory) REGIONAL ORDINARY MEETING Monday 5 September. It was followed by a to non-experts at a fairly introductory level. workshop on additive combinatorics which I have since received several favourable held on Monday 5 September 2005 at the University of Bristol. lasted the rest of the week. reports which suggest they were highly suc- At least 70 members and visitors were present for all or part of The main business of the meeting was the cessful in this regard. two invited talks. We were very lucky to have The afternoons were devoted to invited the meeting. Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State) and Terry Tao one-hour lectures. Although the background The meeting began at 2.00 pm, with the President, Professor (UCLA) come and give admirable general- of the invitees ranged from ergodic theory to F.C. KIRWAN FRS, in the Chair. Five people were elected to audience talks. Vitaly spoke on Ergodic computer science, more or less all of the talks Ramsey theory and properties of large sets, had something to do with Szemerédi's theo- Ordinary Membership: D.J. Benson, J.K. Lonyangapuo, R.C. Miles, and Terry gave a talk entitled Ergodic theory, rem. I received several comments from peo- 22 R.A. Schmidt, J.M. Talbot; two were elected to Associate arithmetic progressions and the primes. Both ple to the effect that talks whose title they 23 Membership: D. Iber, C.K Litterer; and three were elected Members talks set the scene for the workshop which had thought obscure had in actual fact under Reciprocity Agreements: E.T. Brown (Amer. Math. Soc.), was to follow, elaborating as they did on the proved highly engaging. S.P. Gupta (Amer. Math. Soc.), O.O. Ugbebor (Nigerian Math. Soc.). connections between the seemingly distant I should like to conclude by remarking that disciplines of ergodic theory and number the fine weather ensured that delegates saw Four members signed the book and were admitted to the Society. theory which have come to the fore over the the best of what the fine city of Bristol has to last 30 years, starting with the seminal work offer. I should also like to record my thanks to Professor B.J. GREEN introduced a lecture given by Professor of Fürstenberg. Cathy Badley for organising the administra- V. Bergelson on Ergodic Ramsey theory and properties of large sets. The meeting concluded with a discussion of tive side of the conference so brilliantly. After tea, Professor Green introduced a lecture given by Professor the IMA-LMS Frameworks Study Initiative. Ben Green A dinner was held at the Bristol Museum and Bristol University T. Tao on Ergodic theory, arithmetic progressions and the primes. Art Gallery, a unique venue which caters for Professor Kirwan expressed the thanks of the Society to the large parties by special arrangement. The avail- ability of copious elderflower cordial, as well as University of Bristol and the speakers for putting on such an the opportunity to peruse important artefacts excellent meeting. of Cornish geology, provoked much interesting After the meeting an open discussion on the LMS-IMA mathematical discussion. The dinner started at 8.00, yet the business of the meeting was con- Frameworks Study Initiative was led by Mr P.R. Cooper, Executive cluded by 5.30; it is fortunate that local hostel- Secretary of the London Mathematical Society, and Mr D. Youdan, ries were able to provide working space for the Executive Director of the Institute of Mathematics and its delegates during the intervening period. Applications. The workshop on additive combinatorics was, in my opinion, a great success. Additive A dinner was then held in the City Museum. combinatorics is a fairly new name given to the area of mathematics at the triple point of analysis, combinatorics and number theory. In inviting speakers I took a somewhat nar- row view, wanting to focus on issues related © Sidney Harris THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES L’Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, located in Bures-sur-Yvette (France), welcomes each year up to 250 mathematicians and theoretical physicists from all over the world for various periods going from two to three weeks up to one to two years. Created in 1958, IHÉS is an international research institute, registered as a Foundation in the Public Interest since 1980, whose purpose is to support and develop theoretical research in the mathemat- ical sciences, physics and more recently, in molecular biology. IHÉS is financed by different institu- tions, such as: the French Research Ministry, several European research agencies among which the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation, and also some private foundations and corporations. The EPSRC has now been supporting IHÉS for a number of years. In doing so, its aim is to foster closer links between British and French mathematical research centres. British mathematicians and theoretical physicists are invited to apply to IHÉS for visits (for more information, consult the website www.ihes.fr). They can use their stay to work with researchers from other research groups in the Paris area. Director: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Permanent Professors: Thibault Damour, Mikhael Gromov, Maxim Kontsevich, Laurent Lafforgue, Nikita Nekrasov 24 Honorary Professor: David Ruelle 25 Léon Motchane Chair: Alain Connes Louis Michel Chairs: Michael Douglas, Jürg Fröhlich, Samson Shatashvili Long term CNRS visitors: Christophe Breuil, Ofer Gabber, Dirk Kreimer, Christophe Soulé External Members of the Scientific Committee: Curtis Callan, Michael Green, Stanislas Leibler, George Papanicolaou, Marc Mezard, Gerd Faltings
William Hodge Fellowships 2006/2007 In 2000 the EPSRC committee reviewing IHÉS suggested that the EPSRC and IHÉS offer each year two 1-year fellowships bearing the name of Sir William Hodge, the eminent British mathematician. The fellowships enable outstanding young mathematicians and theoretical physicists to spend time at IHÉS. At the next review in 2005, it was suggested that each fellow be encouraged to have a UK-based mentor. Conditions for application: PhD in the Mathematical Sciences or Theoretical Physics obtained in 2004 or 2005. One of the two grants awarded will go to an applicant who has just received his/her PhD from a UK institute or has spent at least the preceding nine months at a UK academic institute. Selection of applicants: Applications will be reviewed and selection made based on the sole criterion of excellence in research by IHÉS Scientific Committee on 17 December 2005. The Committee consists of the Permanent Professors, the Director, and some external members (their names are listed above). Fellowship starting date: Autumn 2006. How to apply: An application file should be sent through the IHÉS website (www.ihes.fr) and should include: a motivation letter, a CV, a publication list, a research project, two or three letters of recommendation, and a proposal for a UK mentor. Deadline for applications: 1 December 2005. Information: IHÉS, 35, route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France (tel: +33 1 6092 6668; fax: +33 1 6092 6669; email: [email protected]; website: www.ihes.fr). THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 16-17 Sklyanin Algebras & Beyond, Leeds ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES University (342) This calendar lists Society meetings and 17-19 Recent Advances in Mathematics & LOGIC AND DATABASES other events publicised in the Newsletter. Its Applications Symposium, India (340) Further information can be obtained from 19-21 Cryptography & Coding IMA 27 February – 3 March 2006 the appropriate LMS Newsletter whose num- Conference, Royal Agricultural College, ber is given in brackets. A fuller list of meet- Cirencester (342) in association with the Newton Institute programme ings and events is given on the Society’s web- entitled Logic and Algorithms (16 January to 7 July 2006) site (www.lms.ac.uk/meetings/calendar.html). JANUARY 2006 Organisers: Anuj Dawar (Cambridge) and Martin Grohe (Berlin). 1-31 Semi-definite Programming & Its NOVEMBER 2005 Applications, Singapore (342) Theme of workshop: Logic and databases have been intimately linked since the 3 History From Below: Mathematics, 4-5 Meeting in Memory of Professor Andy rise of relational database systems in the 1970s. Relational databases can be mod- Instruments & Archaeology, Gresham King, Reading University (342) elled by finite relational structures, and first-order logic lies at the core of standard College, London (340) 9-10 Mathematics of Biomolecules database query languages such as the Structured Query Language, SQL. As another 4-5 NBFAS, Glasgow University (341) Workshop, Warwick University (342) example, closer to current research, XML documents can be modelled by labelled 7 Einstein and Beyond, LMS Spitalfields 9-13 Relaxation Dynamics of Macroscopic unranked trees, and XML query languages as logics on trees. Day, INI, Cambridge (341) Systems Conference, INI, Cambridge (338) The workshop will focus on recent research on logical aspects of the theory of 9 The Free Will Theorem Lecture, 11-14 Homotopy Theory Conference, 26 database systems. These include the applications of logic and logical methods in the J.H. Conway, Cambridge (341) Sheffield University (342) 27 study of databases as well as questions in logic that arise from this study. Particular 11 Edinburgh Mathematical Society 20 Edinburgh Mathematical Society topics of interest include the expressive power and complexity of query languages; Meeting, Glasgow University (341) Meeting, Edinburgh University (341) models and languages for semi-structured data; probabilistic databases; constraint 16 Who Invented the Calculus? Gresham 23-27 Models & Methods for Human databases, etc. College, London (340) Genomics Conference, Italy (340) Speakers: Phokion Kolaitis, Leonid Libkin, Frank Neven, Nicole Schweikardt, Thomas 18 LMS AGM, London (342) Schwentick, Luc Segoufin, Dan Suciu, Victor Vianu. 19 Belfast Functional Analysis Day, FEBRUARY 2006 QUB (337) 10 LMS Meeting, Mary Cartwright Lecture, Location and cost: The workshop will take place at the Newton Institute where 19 IMA Younger Members’ Conference, London (342) limited accommodation is available. Three packages are available: Oxford (342) 17 Edinburgh Mathematical Society • £585: single bedroom with private bathroom and breakfast at the 22-26 Kingfisher DELTA 05, Australia (336) Meeting, Edinburgh University (341) Arundel House Hotel (approx 10 minutes’ walk from the Institute), lunch and 23 Einstein v Newton, Royal Society, 27-3 Mar Logic & Database INI Workshop, refreshments during the days that lectures take place from Sunday 26 February London (342) Cambridge (342) to Thursday 2 March 2006 24-1 Dec Reform, Revolution & Paradigm • £140: lunches on days that lectures take place, formal dinner and refreshments Shifts in Mathematics Education, Malaysia MARCH 2006 • £55: registration fee, no meals (338) 17 Edinburgh Mathematical Society Please indicate on the application form which package you require. A list of local Guest 25 Integrable Systems Day, Loughborough Meeting, Dundee University (341) Houses is available from the web at: www.newton.cam.ac.uk/accommodation.html. University (342) 27-7 Apr Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of 27-30 LUMS International Conference on Interacting Particle Systems School, INI, Self-supporting participants are very welcome to apply. Mathematics, Lahore, Pakistan (339) Cambridge (341) Further information and application forms are available from the web at: www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/LAA/laaw02.html. Completed application DECEMBER 2005 APRIL 2006 forms should be sent to Tracey Andrew, Programme & Conference Secretary, 9 Edinburgh Mathematical Society 3-7 Number Theory & Polynomials Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH or via email Meeting, Heriot-Watt University (341) Workshop, Heilbronn Institute, Bristol ([email protected]). 12-16 Einstein Constraint Equations University (340) Closing date for the receipt of applications is 30 November 2005. Conference, INI, Cambridge (334) 3-7 Jordan Structures in Analysis & 16 Meeting in Honour of L.E. Fraenkel, Geometry Conference, Taiwan (342) Bath University (342) 10-13 BMC, Newcastle University (329) SYDNEY CHAPMAN DE MORGAN MEDALLIST 1944
Professor Chapman received the De Morgan problems. His influential book entitled The Medal on 16 November 1944. At the time of Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases, the award he had published about 200 of his written in collaboration with T.G. Cowling, over 400 papers on geomagnetism (a name was published in 1939 and he had published which he coined), the kinetic theory of two other books (in 1936 and 1940) on gases, atmospheric tides and ionospheric geomagnetism.