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February 2006 THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 345 February 2006 Forthcoming GRANTS FOR to arrive by 31 March 2006. They will be considered by a Society ATTENDING Council Subcommittee and Meetings ICM 2006 results should be known by 5 May 2006. 2006 The Council of the London Friday 10 February Mathematical Society has set BOLOGNA London aside a sum of money to help G. Segal UK mathematicians to attend AGREEMENT U. Tillmann the International Congress of The LMS Council and Education (Mary Cartwright Mathematicians in Madrid in Committee are concerned at Lecture) August 2006. Applications for developments in some universi- LMS grants may be made by ties to question the future of 1 Monday 15 May three categories of people. their MMath and masters Leicester (a) Those who have applied for courses. These, it is thought, Midlands Regional Royal Society grants but may be driven by needs to Meeting were unsuccessful may sim- meet the requirements of the M. Bridson ply submit copies of their Bologna Agreement (on har- N. Hitchin Royal Society applications. monisation of qualifications). H. Kraft (b) Anyone who has obtained a The Society continues to hold A. Zelevinsky Royal Society grant but con- that the MMath and masters siders it very inadequate qualifications are important Friday 16 June may submit a copy of the elements in the provision London original application togeth- of high-quality mathematics A. Rice er with a case for the LMS courses in the UK. Yu Manin supplementing it (but appli- The CMS has a group looking (Hardy Lecture) cants should realise that at the issues emerging from the neither the Royal Society Bologna Agreement and mem- Friday 3 July nor the LMS grants are like- bers are invited to send their Leeds ly to cover the whole cost of views and comments on the Northern Regional attending the ICM). MMath and masters issues to Meeting (c) Those who are ineligible for the Chair of the CMS group, U. Haagerup Royal Society grants may Dr Brian Stewart (email: N. Kalton apply on forms obtainable [email protected]). from the address below, or Monday 11 September from the Society’s website CONGRATULATIONS Bath (www.lms.ac.uk). South West & South Applications should be sent Congratulations to John Ball Wales Regional to the Administrator at the who received a Knighthood in Meeting London Mathematical Society the New Year Honours List. P-L. Lions T. Seppalainen THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 345 February 2006 CRM-FIELDS-PIMS PRIZE The prize was established in 1994 as the CRM-Fields prize to recognize exceptional The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques research in the mathematical sciences. In (CRM) of l’Université de Montréal, the Fields 2005, PIMS became an equal partner and the LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Institute and the Pacific Institute for the name was changed to the CRM-Fields-PIMS Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) are pleased to prize. A committee appointed by the three announce the award of the CRM-Fields-PIMS institutes chooses the recipient. MARY CARTWRIGHT LECTURE Prize for 2006 to Professor Nicole Tomczak- Previous recipients of the prize are Jaegermann of the University of Alberta in H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter, George A. Elliott, recognition of her exceptional achievements James Arthur, Robert V. Moody, Stephen Friday 10 February 2006 in functional analysis and geometric analysis. A. Cook, Israel Michael Sigal, William Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, this year's T. Tutte, John B. Friedlander, John McKay, recipient, is one of the world's leading Edwin Perkins, Donald A. Dawson and Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, mathematicians working in functional David Boyd. For more information visit University College London, 20 Gordon Street, analysis. She has made outstanding www.pims.math.ca. London WC1 contributions to infinite dimensional Banach space theory, asymptotic geometric analysis, FINAL CALL FOR and the interaction between these two 4.15 pm Graeme Segal (Oxford University) 2 streams of modern functional analysis. She FACES COMPETITION 3 holds a Canada Research Chair in Geometric Have you discovered who is Number 14 yet? Locality in quantum field theory Analysis at the University of Alberta. In 1998 Have a look at www.lms.ac.uk/publications/ she gave an invited lecture at the facescomp.html for your last chance to play 5.15 pm Tea International Congress of Mathematicians, is Spot the Mathematician. The deadline for a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Faces Competition is fast approaching – 5.45 pm Mary Cartwright Lecture received a Killam Research Fellowship, and entries should be sent to [email protected] Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford University) the Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship of the before 15 February and all will be Canadian Mathematical Society. acknowledged by email. The topology of strings: Mumford’s conjecture and beyond A reception will be held at De Morgan House at 7.00 pm with a LMS Newsletter dinner afterwards at Il Fornello Restaurant, 150 Southampton Row, General Editor: Dr D.R.J. Chillingworth ([email protected]) London WC1 at 7.30 pm. The cost will be £20.00 per person, inclusive Reports Editor: Dr S.A. Huggett ([email protected]) of wine. 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Requests for support, including an estimate of costs, may be addressed Items and advertisements by first day of the month prior to publication. Information in the Newsletter is free to be used elsewhere unless otherwise stated; attribution is to Isabelle Robinson at the Society ([email protected]). requested when reproducing whole articles. The LMS cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy of information in the Newsletter. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the views or policy of the London Mathematical Society. Charity registration number: 252660. THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 345 February 2006 KING FAISAL PRIZE 2006 Teams applying for research grants must first submit a letter of intent online. The next Simon Donaldson of Imperial College, deadline is 30 March 2006 and potential London, and M.S. Narasimhan of the Tata applicants must pre-register by 20 March Institute for Fundamental Research in 2006 (see the HFSP web site at www.hfsp.org Mumbai have been jointly awarded the for further details). 2006 King Faisal International Prize for Science. The prize, presented by the King ROYAL COMMISSION FOR Faisal Foundation, consists of a gold medal and a cash prize of US$200,000, which the THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 two recipients will share. Donaldson's early Research Fellowships research revolutionized four-dimensional The scheme of 1851 Research Fellowships is differential topology, revealing surprising intended to give a few young scientists or new phenomena through the application engineers of exceptional promise the oppor- of ideas from gauge theory. He has also tunity for conducting research for a further made foundational contributions to com- period of two years. Approximately six plex and symplectic geometry and to glob- awards are made each year. al analysis of partial differential equations Candidates in science subjects must normal- 4 on manifolds. Narasimhan is a pioneer of ly be in possession of a PhD degree, or in the 5 the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic final stages of their PhD studies. Candidates vector bundles on projective varieties. His offering engineering do not have to be in work on projectively flat connections was possession of a PhD, but must be of at least the starting point for the development of PhD standard. The Fellowships are open to the so-called Kobayashi-Hitchin correspon- candidates in any of the physical or biological dence linking the differential and algebra- sciences, in mathematics, in applied science, ic geometry of vector bundles over or in any branch of engineering. complex manifolds. 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