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NEWSLETTER No. 464 December 2016 ATHENA PRIZE The London Mathematical Society Women in Diversity Conference on 31 October 2016. The Mathematics Committee was presented with medal was presented by Dr Julie Maxton, the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize (see Executive Director, Royal Society. See page 3 for November LMS Newsletter) at the Royal Society images of the medal. Dr Julie Maxton, Executive Director, Royal Society; Professor John Greenlees, LMS Vice President; Dr Cathy Hobbs; Professor Gwyneth Stallard; Dr Eugenie Hunsicker, Chair, Women in Mathematics Committee SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS • 16–17 December: Prospects in Mathematics • 5 May 2017: Mary Cartwright Lecture, London Meeting, York page 16 • 1 June 2017: Northern Regional Meeting, York • 20 December: SW & South Wales Regional • 30 June 2017: Graduate Student Meeting, Bath page 15 Meeting, London • 18–22 April 2017: LMS Invited Lectures, Newcastle page 24 • 30 June 2017: Society Meeting, London NEWSLETTER ONLINE: newsletter.lms.ac.uk @LondMathSoc LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Contents No. 464 December 2016 7 18 Calendar of Events 39 British Combinatorial Conference.........21 British Postgraduate Model LMS Items Theory Conference...............................20 Athena Prize............................................1 2 Young Theorists’ Forum..........................21 Caring Supplementary Grants................5 Cecil King Travel Scholarship News 2017 – call for nominations................25 Chern Medal 2018...................................4 Council Diary............................................6 European News.......................................10 David Crighton Medal 2017..................3 Free Author Workshop at JMM.............38 Hardy Lectureship Tour 2018 Mathematics Policy Round-Up.............8 – nominations sought..........................27 Women of Mathematics Prizes 2017 – call for nominations...........12 Throughout Europe..............................7 Research Schools – call for proposals.....13 Why you should join the EMS................9 Spitalfields Day – call for proposals.......4 Obituaries LMS Meetings Blake, John...............................................28 Christopher Zeeman Lecture..................14 Shephard, Geoffrey.................................28 Invited Lecturer 2017..............................24 Microlocal Analysis and Applications Reports Research School....................................22 British Science Festival............................18 New Trends in Representation Theory Mathematics in the Regions and Research School.....................................23 Nations..............................................17 Prospects in Mathematics Meeting......16 SW & South Wales Regional Meeting....15 Reviews A Brief History of Numbers....................32 Meetings Hidden Harmony.....................................33 Algebraic, Topological and Complexity...20 Soccermatics.............................................36 Approximation, Deformation, Quasification.........................................26 Visit BioMathematics @ Swansea 2017...........20 Wesolek, Phillip.......................................26 [email protected] No. 464 December 2016 The Athena Prize Medal DAVID CRIGHTON MEDAL 2017 Call for nominations The David Crighton Medal was established by award at a joint meeting of the IMA and the LMS, the Councils of the LMS and IMA in 2002 in order and will be invited to give a lecture. to pay tribute to the memory of Professor David The David Crighton Medal was awarded in 2015 George Crighton, FRS. The silver gilt medal will to Professor Frank Kelly, FRS. Previous winners of 3 be awarded to an eminent mathematician for the Medal are Professor Arieh Iserles and Dr Peter services both to mathematics and to the math- Neumann, OBE (2012), Professor Keith Moffat, ematical community, who is normally resident in FRS (2009), Professor Sir Christopher Zeeman, FRS the mathematical community represented by the (2006) and Professor Sir John Ball, FRS (2003). two organisations on the 1 January of the year of Nominations are now invited. These should be the award. made on a nomination form available on both In 2015 the Councils of the Institute and the Societies’ websites (https://www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/ Society agreed that the frequency of the award ima-lms-prizes) or from the Secretary to the should be increased, and the award is now con- David Crighton Committee ([email protected]). sidered biennially by the Councils. The medal- Nominations must be received by 28 February winner will normally be presented with the 2017. Editorial team Publication dates and deadlines http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Editorial office General Editor Published monthly, except August. Items and adver- London Mathematical Society, Mr A.J.S. Mann tisements by the first day of the month prior to publi- De Morgan House, 57–58 Russell ([email protected]) cation, or the closest preceding working day. Notices Square, London WC1B 4HS and advertisements are not accepted for events that Reports Editor occur in the first week of the publication month. (t: 020 7637 3686; Professor I. A. Stewart f: 020 7323 3655) ([email protected]) News items and notices in the Newsletter may be freely used elsewhere unless otherwise stated, al- Events calendar Reviews Editor though attribution is requested when reproducing Updates and corrections to Professor D. Singerman whole articles. 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Speakers: A Spitalfields Day is a one-day event at which • Pekka Lahti (Turku, Finland) selected participants, often eminent experts • Reinhard Werner (Hannover, Germany) from overseas, give survey lectures or talks, • Madalin Guta (Nottingham) which are accessible to a general mathemati- • Paul Busch (York) cal audience. The Spitalfields Day is often 2014: INI, Cambridge Theory of Water Waves associated with a long-term symposium and Speakers: speakers will generally give lectures on topics • Professor Mark Groves (Loughborough) of the symposium. • Professor Guido Schneider (Stuttgart) The name honours the Society’s predecessor, • Professor Steve Shkoller (Oxford) the Spitalfields Mathematical Society, which • Dr Eugene Varvaruca (Reading) flourished from 1717 to 1845, and Spitalfields If you are interested in organising a Spital- Days have been held each year since 1987. fields Day, please write to the Society (grants@ The grant of £1,000 is intended to cover lms.ac.uk). The format need not be precisely actual supplementary costs for the event, e.g. as described, but should be in a similar spirit. subsidising the cost for a lunch for participants, The next deadline for proposals is 31 January 4 and for small travel grants of £50 to enable 2017. Subsequent deadlines are 15 May and LMS members and research students to attend 15 September 2017. Please note the Society the event. cannot fund events retrospectively so appli- Previously supported Spitalfields Days have cants are advised to apply well in advance of included: the event. CHERN MEDAL 2018 Call for nominations The Chern Medal is a relatively new prize, the IMU and the Chern Medal Foundation awarded once every four years jointly by (CMF) to an individual whose accomplish- [email protected] No. 464 December 2016 ments warrant the highest level of recog- geometry and founded the area of global nition for outstanding achievements in differential geometry. Chern exhibited keen the field of mathematics. Funded by the aesthetic tastes in his selection of problems, CMF, the Medalist receives a cash prize of and the breadth of his work deepened the US$250,000. In addition, each Medalist may connections of geometry with different nominate one or more organizations to areas of mathematics. He was also generous receive funding totalling US$250,000, for during his lifetime in his personal support of the support of research, education, or other the field. outreach programs in the field of mathemat- Nominations should be sent to the Prize ics. Committee Chair: Caroline Series, email: chair@ Professor Chern devoted his life to mathe- chern18.mathunion.org by 31 December matics, both in active research and education, 2016. Further details and nomination guide- and in nurturing the field whenever the op- lines for this and the other IMU prizes can portunity arose. He obtained fundamental be found at www.mathunion.org/general/ results in all the major aspects of modern prizes/. CARING SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS The LMS acknowledges that a barrier to ed this and discerned that this is not the some mathematicians attending conferenc- case where caring funding is required to es/going on research