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Nearly There... Interested to Receive Your Comments, and Also the Last Lap, the Home Straight, the Final Push – However You Describe It, We’Re Nearly There Maths News 2013 [3]_Maths newsletter 1 23/05/2013 11:26 Page 2 Oxford Mathematical Institute Spring 2013, Number 11 Newsletter We hope that you enjoy receiving this annual Newsletter. We are Nearly there... interested to receive your comments, and also The last lap, the home straight, the final push – however you describe it, we’re nearly there. contributions for future The extraordinary transformation of a huge hole in the ground into a seven-floor Mathematical Newsletters. Institute is virtually complete. The Chairman of the Department is finalising the room plan; Please write to the editor: the events team is working on the official opening ceremony; meanwhile, the contractors have Robin Wilson completed the skin of the building and are fitting it out, from the basement car park to the MI Newsletter topmost office and the roof terraces. Mathematical Institute 24–29 St Giles Now that we can see the building itself, we Oxford OX1 3LB, realise what a fabulous space it will be. Each of or send e-mails to him, c/o the two stunning central atria features a 'crystal' [email protected] – a light-well into the below-ground teaching Design & production by Baseline Arts space – incorporating mathematics into its design. As you walk along Woodstock Road at night, you’ll see lights through the glass roofs of the atria and the office windows. The building is coming to life. We start to move in at the end of June, and by this year's alumni garden party, which will be held in September (please note the new time – see page 8), we shall be fully at work in our new home. Do come and visit us! n ISSUE 11 / 1 Maths News 2013 [3]_Maths newsletter 1 23/05/2013 11:26 Page 3 News Clay Mathematics Institute Nick Woodhouse, CMI President In July 2012 the Clay drawn attention to the seven problems in Mathematics a way that is unusual in our sometimes Institute moved the invisible discipline. So far only one prize organisation of its has been awarded, to Gregoriy Perelman mathematical for the proof of the Poincaré conjecture. activities to a new (Perelman declined the prize, as he had 'President's Office' earlier declined the Fields Medal; those in the Mathematical who came to the Mathematical Institute © Rob Judges © Rob Institute at Oxford. Garden Party in 2008 will have heard Landon Clay with Sir Andrew Wiles some of this history, in the lecture by For the moment it is housed in temporary Sir John Ball.) The move of the office to Oxford offers a quarters in the Gibson Building, but in the wonderful opportunity for CMI to build summer of 2013 it will join the general CMI supports mathematics in many other on its success and to extend the migration to the stunning new ways. It supports individuals through international reach of its support for mathematics building in the Radcliffe Research Awards and Research mathematics. It is also a wonderful Observatory Quarter. The CMI remains an Fellowships, and other shorter-term opportunity for Oxford to benefit from American charitable foundation, but funding: the high standard set is perhaps CMI activities in the new building, for Oxford will provide administrative support indicated by the fact that three of the which we all also owe an enormous debt and a location for many of the activities four Fields Medals awarded at the last of gratitude to the Clay family. n that it supports. International Congress of Mathematicians went to former recipients of research The CMI was founded with a very support from CMI. It also supports generous endowment by Landon T. Clay in conferences and workshops for New 1998. It grew out of his belief in the value outstanding mathematicians at all levels. Waynflete of mathematical knowledge and its centrality to human progress, culture, One particularly successful partnership is Professor and intellectual life. Its objectives are with the PROMYS summer programme for n to increase and disseminate high-school students at Boston University. appointed mathematical knowledge; Over 24 years, 1332 students have n to educate mathematicians and other participated. Of those who are old The Waynflete Chair scientists about new discoveries in the enough, more than half now have of Pure Mathematics field of mathematics; doctorates, and half of those are from the is named after n to encourage gifted students to pursue top six mathematics graduate schools in William Waynflete, mathematical careers; the USA − a record unrivalled by any other Bishop of Winchester n to recognize extraordinary mathematics educational programme. The from 1447 to 1486 achievements and advances in CMI is currently seeking to extend the and founder of Magdalen College. mathematical research. benefit to students from outside the USA. Following the departure of Raphaël Rouquier, the appointment has been It is perhaps best known for the Because it is able to respond quickly and announced of Professor Ben Green FRS establishment of the Clay Millennium is not bound by the constraints under (University of Cambridge) to the Prizes − $1,000,000 prizes offered for the which national funding bodies must Waynflete Chair. Ben Green is well solution of each of seven deep unsolved operate, CMI can also support known for his work in combinatorial problems in mathematics. These have had mathematics in other less conventional mathematics and number theory, and a huge impact: first, in raising awareness but equally inspiring ways. For example, in particular the Green–Tao theorem of mathematics amongst young students in 2004 it funded the digitisation of the which concerns the appearance of and in encouraging them to enter the Bodleian Library's Euclid manuscript, the arithmetic progressions in the list of discipline; second, in conveying a message oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid's prime numbers. He wrote his PhD thesis to professional mathematicians about the Elements, transcribed in Constantinople under the supervision of Fields Medallist importance of working on really hard long- by Stephen the Clerk in AD 888. It can be Tim Gowers, and he has been a standing problems. The prizes have also seen on the CMI website Research Fellow of the Clay entered the general consciousness and (www.claymath.org). Mathematics Institute. n 2 / OXFORD MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER . SPRING 2013 . ISSUE 11 Maths News 2013 [3]_Maths newsletter 1 23/05/2013 11:26 Page 4 Chairman's letter be followed by Terry Lyons, in the UK – to an EPSRC-commissioned study on the Chairman’s see below and page 7); Alison Etheridge value of research in the mathematical is 'maths buddy' to the Chief Scientist at sciences to the UK economy. The report, letter the Treasury; and Frances Kirwan is Chair written by Deloitte and available on of the UK Mathematics Trust. Marcus du EPSRC's website, concludes: Sam Howison Sautoy sells mathematics to the world: he The quantified contribution of recently donated a group of symmetries mathematical science research to the As the new to the Queen as a Diamond Jubilee UK economy in 2010 is estimated to be building present (see page 7), and on page 8 you approximately 2.8 million in employment approaches can find details of how to buy your own. terms (around 10 per cent of all jobs in completion, we the UK) and £208 billion in terms of can lift our eyes Judges © Rob Recently we’ve been writing 'impact Gross Value Added contribution (around from the details of planning to look at case studies' for the upcoming Research 16 per cent of total UK GVA). the wider world. Excellence Framework assessment of the quality of research in UK universities. These extraordinary figures can be set Oxford Mathematics doesn't exist in a Our work has had major impact in a against the government's annual vacuum: far from it. Our members play a whole range of non-academic sectors, investment in funding for doctorates in full part in the life of the world-wide ranging from aero-engineering to mathematics in all of the UK: just £9M. mathematical community. They edit defence and national security, and from Our Prime Minister likes to tell us that journals (several are run from Oxford); finance to glass manufacture. Britain is competing in a global race. He they sit on national and international might do well to recall that the sports in boards and committees; they lead Of course, we aren't the only impactful which Britain excelled in last summer's national mathematics societies (Nick mathematicians in the UK. I was recently a Olympics were those that had been Trefethen in the US and Graeme Segal, to member of a working group contributing properly funded. n Terry Lyons to be LMS President © Rob Judges © Rob Professor Terry Lyons FRS, Wallis dimensional and interacting random Sedleian Professors of Natural Professor of Mathematics since 1999, and systems. His research has contributed to Philosophy: A. E. H. Love (1912), Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of the pure mathematical foundations, and E. A. Milne (1937) and Sir John Ball* Quantitative Finance (above left), is to applications, for example: providing (1996 and 2007). the latest Oxford mathematician to be efficient new methods for numerical Waynflete Professors of Pure appointed President of the London calculation and novel ways to summarise Mathematics: E. B. Elliott (1896), Mathematical Society; he takes up his vast data sets effectively.’ A. L. Dixon (1924), Henry Whitehead two-year post in November. The current (1953) and Graham Higman (1965). President is also an Oxford mathemat ician: In fact, since the LMS was founded in Dr Graeme Segal FRS, Senior Research 1865, more than a dozen mathematicians Other Oxford professors: Fellow at All Souls College (above right).
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