Brief Biographies of Candidates

London Mathematical Society Elections 2016 Brief Biographies of Candidates

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Page Number Biographies of Candidates 3 Nomination Information 16 Officer Roles 16 Members-at-Large of Council 16 Member-at-Large (Librarian) 16 Nominating Committee 17 Single Transferable Vote 18 Candidate for election as President (1 vacancy)

Simon Tavaré FRS, Director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge; Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/st321/ PhD: University of Sheffield, 1979 Previous appointments: 2006 - 2013 Senior Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute; 2003 - present Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge; 2004 - present Professorial Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge; 2006 - 2014 Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; 1989 - 2006 Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, USC; 2000 - 2006 Professor-at- Large, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont CA; 1999 - 2006 Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; 1989 - 2006 Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC; 1984 - 1989 Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah; 1983 - 1985 Associate Professor of Statistics, Colorado State University; 1981 - 1983 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Colorado State University; 1978 - 1981 Instructor of Mathematics, University of Utah; 1978 - 1979 Research Fellow, Medical Biophysics and Computing, University of Utah; 1977 - 1978 Lecturer in Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield. Research interests: Cancer genomics; evolutionary approaches to cancer; statistical bioinformatics for arrays and sequencing; computational biology; population genetics, coalescent theory; stochastic computation, approximate Bayesian computation; statistical inference in molecular biology, human genetics, molecular evolution, palaeontology; tracking from videos; probabilistic combinatorics. Additional Information: Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci); Royal Society of Biology (FRSB); IMA (FIMA); EMBO; Fellow, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, AAAS. DTech (hc), Chalmers University, Sweden; 2010 - present Director, Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD, Mathematical Genomics and Medicine, DAMTP.

Candidates for election as Vice-Presidents (2 vacancies)

John Greenlees, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://greenlees.staff.shef.ac.uk/ PhD: University of Cambridge 1986. Previous appointments: Lecturer, National University of Singapore 1986–89: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago 1989-90; Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship 1995-96; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago 1994; INI Programme Organizer, Cambridge 2002; Head of School 2010-13; Research Professor MSRI, 2014. Research interests: Algebraic topology (stable homotopy theory, equivariant cohomology theories); commutative algebra, representation theory. LMS service: Editorial Board 1994–2004, Publications Committee 2004–2009; BMC Scientific Committee 1999–2004; Prizes Committee 2009–10; Research Policy Committee 2010 – Date; Vice-President 2009-Date. Additional information: Junior Berwick Prize 1995; EPSRC Mathematics Strategic Advisory Team 2004-06; Member, RAE 2008 Pure Maths Subpanel. Editorial Boards: Algebraic and Geometric Topology 2000– ; Homology, Homotopy and Applications 2007– ; Topology and its Applications 1998–. Member of REF2014 Mathematical Sciences Subpanel. Personal statement: The factual information should make plain the value I place on mathematical research and the traditional ways the LMS supports it; that is my top priority, but the LMS has other important roles. There is a shift of emphasis, and a shift of funding underway. If mathematics is to flourish, it is important for us to explain what we do at all levels and what mathematics can contribute, and we need to do so in language suitable for a variety of different audiences. Since I have joined Council we have introduced or supported a variety of further initiatives to improve communication, internally and with the rest of the world. I hope to play a continuing part in a measured but bold and outgoing LMS supporting mathematical research and explaining its importance, working with other organisations to add weight to the case whenever appropriate.

3 Ken Brown, Professor of Mathematics, University of Glasgow Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~kab/ PhD: University of Warwick 1976. Previous appointments: SERC postdoctoral fellow, Warwick 1976–78; Lecturer, University of Glasgow 1978, Professor since 1990; visiting positions at University of Washington 1983–84, University of Texas (Austin) 1986–87. Research interests: Algebra. LMS service: Council 1992–2001; Chair, Personnel & Office Management Committee 1999–2001; Vice-President 1997–99; Editorial Adviser 2002–06; Vice-President 2009 – date; Chair of Research Policy Committee 2010 – date. Additional information: Member of EPSRC SAT 2014 - ; Member of RAE Pure Maths Subpanel 1996, 2001, Vice-Chair 2001, Chair of Pure Maths Subpanel 2008; Member, REF Expert Advisory Group 2008–09; Member, EPSRC College since 1995; Member, National Advisory Board of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) 1998–2002; Member, Scientific Committee of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) (Edinburgh) 2006– 2015. Personal statement: If elected I will continue to work to strengthen the LMS and to improve both the quality and the volume of its interactions with the mathematical community and with the wider society. I believe this to be especially important in the present economic and political climate, when support for many of the activities of mathematicians is under threat. I am currently chair of the EPSRC Mathematical Science Strategic Advisory Team, and I will continue to try to use this position to enhance communication in both directions between EPSRC and the UK mathematics community, and to defend the position of mathematical science in the current difficult climate.

Candidate for election as Treasurer (1 vacancy)

Robert Turner Curtis, Professor of Combinatorial Algebra, University of Birmingham. Email: [email protected] Home page: www.mat.bham.ac.uk/staff/curtisrt.shtml PhD: University of Cambridge 1972 Previous appointments: SRC Research Fellow, Cambridge, 1972—76; Visiting Professor, Bowdoin College, 1977—80; Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor, University of Birmingham, 1980—2010. Research interests: Presentations and representations of finite groups; sporadic simple groups; symmetric generation of groups; the geometric and combinatorial structures on which groups act: graphs, codes, lattices, block designs. LMS service: Council member at large 2001—07; Prizes Committee 2004—5; Programme Committee 2001—4; Librarian 2003—07; Regional co-ordinator (5 years); Treasurer 2011 - Date. Additional information: Head of School of Mathematics 1997-2002; Council of the University of Birmingham (5 years); Chairman of 55th BMC 2003; Scientific Committee of BMC 2002 – 2004. Personal Statement: I see the role of the LMS as being more important now than it has ever been. As Government seeks ways to cut back on its expenditure it is imperative that a well-informed and articulate voice makes the case for Mathematics and, in particular, for the continued funding of mathematical research. Through the CMS, its own Education Committee and other bodies, the Society is hugely influential in defending the interests of the mathematical community. Moreover, as financial support for research becomes increasingly difficult to obtain, the role of the LMS in providing grants becomes correspondingly invaluable. As Treasurer I am taking measures to ensure the continued financial security of the Society, so that it can support these essential activities now and in the future. Besides finance, the other main responsibility of the Treasurer is the membership of the Society. I am keen to improve communications between our elected Council and our members, and for this reason I have re-established a network of departmental representatives. There is evidence that this structure is already bearing fruit.

4 Candidate for election as General Secretary (1 vacancy)

Stephen Huggett, Professor, University of Plymouth. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://stephenhuggett.com/index.html DPhil: University of Oxford 1981. Research interests: Twistor theory; Graph theory. LMS service: General Secretary, 2012– ; Chair, International Affairs Committee 2004–2011; Programme Secretary 2001– 2011; Member of Education Committee 1992–2001. Additional Information: Secretary of the European Mathematical Society 2007–2014.

Candidate for election as Publications Secretary (1 vacancy)

John Robert Hunton, Professor of Pure Mathematics, Durham University. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.dur.ac.uk/john.hunton PhD: University of Cambridge 1990. Previous appointments: 1989-91 SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (held at the University of Manchester and at MIT); 1991-95 Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; 1994/5 William Gordon Seggie Brown Fellow, University of Edinburgh and honorary Research Fellow, University of St Andrews; 1995-2003 Lecturer/Reader, University of Leicester; 2001-2002 Leverhulme Research Fellow; 2003-2013 Professor of Geometry, University of Leicester. Research interests: Algebraic Topology, K-theory and Dynamics, Aperiodic Patterns, and especially the interaction of these topics. LMS service: Publications Secretary since 2013, International Affairs Committee, Library Committee and Personnel Committee 2013 - present. Council, Member-at-Large 2011-2013. Editorial advisor for LMS publications on K-theory and Algebraic Topology, 2006-2013. Publications Committee 2012-2013. LMS representative on Scientific Steering Committee of the British Mathematical Colloquia 2011-2017. LMS Council representative, Nominating Committee 2012. LMS Council representative on Cecil King Mathematics Travelling scholarship interview panel 2013. Additional information: Chair of British Mathematical Colloquium 2011; member of EPSRC College since 1999 and of Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematical Sciences 2009-2013; Member, academic subcommittee contributing to Deloitte report on `Assessing the Economic impact of Mathematical Science Research’ 2012/3; representative of the Learned Societies at the Burgess inquiry on RCUK Open Access policy 2014/15; chair of panel session at Berlin ECM discussing publishing for early career researchers 2016; Selected Exhibitor at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009 presenting contemporary pure and applied mathematical research on aperiodic geometry to Government, Policy Makers and the General Public; co-organiser 1996-2011 of LMS scheme 3 collaborative seminar Transpennine Topology Triangle; co- organiser over last 18 years of multiple workshops on various algebra-topology-geometry interactions. Personal statement: Concerning publications, the LMS has a dual role to play: it is a recognised body supporting and representing the publication related interests of the mathematical community, and it is also an internationally respected academic publisher itself. Moreover, this latter role provides the majority of the Society’s income, and so directly supports mathematicians via the many LMS grant schemes and activities. In the current, rapidly changing climate, the Society needs to keep a constant eye on the potential - and real - threats Mathematics faces in this area, working to mitigate them where possible, understanding what is happening at members’ institutions, providing mathematicians with good quality information, maintaining the quality, recognition and viability of its publications, and clearly articulating - positively and constructively - the needs of mathematics to the national and international debates. If re-elected, I would endeavour to continue to use my experience and links with the mathematical and wider public communities to aid the LMS in addressing this spectrum of important activities, including, and especially this year, overseeing the transition of much of the Society’s journals operation to our new publishers.

5 Candidate for election as Programme Secretary (1 vacancy)

Professor Iain A. Stewart, Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.durham.ac.uk/i.a.stewart PhD: Mathematics (‘Locally Supersolvable Skew-Linear Groups’, supervisor B.A.F. Wehrfritz, Queen Mary College, University of London, 1986) Previous appointments: Lecturer, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1986-92, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader: Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea, 1992-1996, Professor of Computer Science, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leicester, 1996-2002 Research interests: Theoretical computer science including: computational complexity; finite model theory and descriptive complexity; interconnection networks for parallel and distributed computing; graph theory and algorithms; theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence; algorithmic and complexity aspects of group theory. LMS service: Member of LMS Council 1997-99 and 2014-current, Chair of LMS Programme Committee 2015-current, Member of LMS Computer Science Committee 1996-1999 and 2015-current and Chair 1999-2002, Member of LMS Publications Committee 1997-99, Editorial Advisor of LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics from its inauguration until 2012, Coordinator of the joint LMS/EPSRC Mathematics for IT (MathFIT) initiative 2000-02 Additional information: Member of Computer Science and Informatics REF Panel, previously Member of British Computer Society Academy of Computing Research Committee, Member of UK Computing Research Committee and previously its Executive Committee Personal statement: In these times of austerity, impact and collaboration, it is more important than ever that Mathematics is valued by governments, research councils, scientists at large, and the general public as intrinsic to the social, technological and intellectual fabric and well-being of the UK; and, in consequence, that Mathematics is properly supported in all ways possible. I have spent my academic life working at the interface of Mathematics and Computer Science, both in terms of my own personal research and the professional service activities I have engaged in (in tandem with learned societies and research councils). I feel that I have the vision, expertise and general mathematical appreciation to help (mainstream) Mathematics engage in a wider sphere; for example, with potential impact-related opportunities in Computer Science and Engineering. At present I feel that Mathematics is being unfairly treated and I am keen to try and help reverse this trend, working through the LMS to create a healthier and more positive environment. I believe that it is in the best interests of Mathematics to engage with, for example, the current funding mechanisms and constructively work towards a more enlightened governmental attitude, and I feel that I can positively contribute to this movement.

Candidate for election as Education Secretary (1 vacancy)

Frances Alice Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, King’s College London. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/mathematics/people/atoz/rogersa.aspx PhD: Imperial College, University of London 1981. Previous appointments: (Seven years as a school teacher from 1969-1976.) Imperial College London: SERC Research Fellow, 1981-83. King’s College London: Research Associate 1983-84, EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow 1984-89, Royal Society University Research Fellow 1989-94, Lecturer in Mathematics 1994-96, Reader in Applied Mathematics 1996-2007, Head of Department of Mathematics 2001-04, Professor of Mathematics 2007-2013. Research interests: Geometry and Analysis on Supermanifolds, with applications in Physics and Geometry. LMS service: Council 2002 - 2009, Vice President 2005 - 2009, Personnel Committee 2007 – 2009 (Chair 2008-2009) and 2010 - 2015, Mathematics Promotion Unit Steering Group Chair 2006-2009, Women in Mathematics Committee 2000- 2005, Chair 2002-2005, Education Committee 2005-2011. Education Secretary 2013 -

6 Additional information: Member of the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) from 2007–2011 (Deputy Chair from 2009). Member of Mathematics Panel of A-level Content Advisory Board (and its ad hoc successor body ALMAB) from its creation in 2014. Personal statement: The LMS has an impressive record of valuable and effective involvement in national mathematics education policy in schools, colleges and universities and in the promotion of Mathematics to the public. I believe that as Education Secretary, supported by a strong Education Committee, I can help the LMS to develop this involvement and maintain its good standing in Mathematics Education circles within and outside government. My career has included teaching Mathematics classes from low ability in an inner city comprehensive to advanced postgraduate Mathematics, and also a term as head of a university Mathematics department. I thus feel my experience is extensive, including in particular developing the next generation of mathematicians in university Mathematics departments and the later stages of school, and the current revision of A-level Mathematics. I also believe that I have been able to develop good relationships with school teachers and others outside HE working in mathematics education so that I should be able to make sure the LMS voice is heard and has due influence. My extensive involvement over the years, in particular as Deputy Chair of ACME, has enabled me to gain valuable experience and understanding of the political machines which drive developments in education policy.

Candidate for election as Librarian (Member-at-Large) (1 vacancy)

June Barrow-Green, Professor of History of Mathematics, The Open University. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct/people/june.barrow-green PhD: The Open University 1993. Research interests: The development of dynamical systems theory, particularly the work of Henri Poincaré and George D. Birkhoff. British mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries. The use of history in mathematics education. LMS service: I have been a Member of Council and the Society’s Librarian since 2007. I am chair of Library Committee, a member of Personnel Committee, and a member of Prizes Committee. Additional information: I am a past President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM), a member of the BSHM Council and the BSHM representative on JMC. I am Vice-chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics, and a member of the Science Museum Mathematics Gallery Project External Advisory Panel, and a member of several Editorial Boards including Historia Mathematica, Révue d’Histoire des Mathématiques, Philosophia Scientiæ and the AMS History of Mathematics Series. Personal statement: The Society’s Librarian has responsibility for the LMS book and journal collections as well as its archives. As a historian of mathematics, I am particularly aware of the Society’s distinguished history and of the significance of its collections, and I contributed substantially to the organisation of the Society’s centenary celebrations in 2015. In the interest of both preserving and making accessible the collections, I have been working with the Archivist on a programme of digitisation of the Society’s most important archives for display on the Society’s website. I have also been working with the Science Museum arranging a loan of mathematical models for display at De Morgan House. As a member of staff of the Open University, I am able to represent the position of the part-time and distance-teaching sectors. I am also able to speak for history of mathematics in appropriate curriculum and research discussions. I have an interest in women’s issues and I actively support initiatives encouraging women to enter and to stay in mathematics.

Candidates for election as Member-at-Large of Council (6x 2-year terms vacant)

Francis Willoughby Clarke, Honorary Lecturer, Swansea University; Consultant Researcher, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Email: [email protected] Home page: https://fwclarke.github.io PhD: University of Warwick 1971. Previous appointments: 1971–2010 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, Swansea University; 2007–2010 seconded to Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Research interests: Algebraic Topology, Number Theory, Computer Algebra.

7 LMS service: Euromath committee, 1980s; B. M. C. Scientific Committee, 2004–2007; Organiser of LMS/EPSRC Short Course on Algebraic Topology, 2005; Council 2013–2016, Programme Committee 2013–2016 and Deputy Programme Secretary since 2015, Computer Science Committee 2013, Publications Committee 2014–2016. Additional information: Secretary of British Mathematical Colloquium 2007; Member of EPSRC’s Mathematics Strategic Advisory Team 2007–2012 and of Transformative Research Advisory Group 2008–2010; Developer for the open-source mathematics software system Sage 2009– ; External member of the Academic Steering and Management Group of the Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre, 2009–2013. Personal statement: I have broad mathematical interests. Even the most apparently pure mathematics can have unexpected relevance far beyond its origins. The timescale in which mathematics operates, far longer than for many other sciences, is a vital distinguishing feature which is not always understood by funding bodies. This also means that new proposed models of academic publishing risk being a poor fit for our subject. The continuing task of explaining to government and the public the importance of mathematics will remain a central part of the LMS’s mission. Equally significant will be developing the excellent support that the Society brings to the profession and its members at all stages of their careers. If re-elected, I hope to be able to contribute to these endeavours. Martina Balagovic, Lecturer, Newcastle University Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.ncl.ac.uk/maths/about/staff/profile/martinabalagovic.html PhD: MIT, 2011 Previous appointments: Research Associate, University of York; Research Associate, Newcastle University Research interests: algebra, representation theory, quantum groups, quantum affine algebras, Kac-Moody algebras, double affine Hecke algebras and their degenerations, quantum symmetric pairs LMS service: Additional information: Alexandre Borovik, Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester Email: [email protected] Home page: www.borovik.net PhD: 1982. Previous appointments in the UK: 1992-present time: Lecturer, Reader, from 1998 -- Professor at UMIST and University of Manchester. Research interests: Group theory, model theory, combinatorics. LMS service: Council Member, 2006-12 and 2014-16. Programme Committee 2007-10, Research Meetings Committee 2007-10, Education Committee 2010-12, Web Working Group 2010 - present time, Standing Orders Review Group 2013 - present time. Founder (2011) and Editor of The De Morgan Forum, education.lms.ac.uk, the LMS blog on mathematics education, and The De Morgan Gazette, online magazine on mathematics education; the blog has had 2 million views during five years of its existence so far. Additional information: Editor, J. Group Theory; trustee and council member of the British Logic Colloquium; member of the OCR Mathematics Consultative Forum. CV and list of publications: http://www.borovik.net/CV.pdf. Personal statement: I trust many of our colleagues would agree that we are now working in a more challenging academic environment. This is why I believe that the LMS should focus its activities on its core charitable aim: supporting research in mathematics. The LMS can, and should, allocate much more substantial funds for direct support of research -- and we should not forget that the LMS grant schemes provide fantastic value for money. We must care about the health and cohesion of our community and, in particular, support contacts and research collaborations between mathematicians. In the Internet age, meetings and conferences are needed not so much for announcement of results but for exchange of ideas and forging new projects. We need more grants, with fast and easy application and award procedures, for small workshops and research meetings. Focus on wellbeing of the mathematical community also requires attention to mathematics education, especially at university level.

8 If elected, I will continue my close involvement with these issues. I seek your vote, and I would also appreciate you dropping at [email protected] a few lines of advice, suggestions, or indication that in future you might help with the development of LMS policies. Tara Brendle, Professor of Mathematics, University of Glasgow Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~tbrendle/ PhD: Columbia University, New York, 2002. Previous appointments: VIGRE Assistant Professor, Cornell University (2002-05); Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University (2005-08). Research interests: My work is in geometric group theory, an area that lies in the intersection of algebra and low- dimensional topology. I am particularly interested in mapping class groups of surfaces, including braid groups. LMS service: I serve as the Edinburgh Mathematical Society representative on the London Mathematical Society’s Women in Mathematics Committee (2014-present). I have been a member of Council for two years; I have served on its Strategic Subgroup for one year and more recently became Council Diarist for the Newsletter. Additional information: Since 2015 I have been a member of the Scottish government working group Making Maths Count, working to encourage greater enthusiasm for, and attainment in, maths across society. I am also currently a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recent conference organization includes the a special session “Geometric group theory and topology” at the American Mathematical Society meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, the 31st British Topology Meeting in Glasgow, and an upcoming conference “Braids in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology” at ICMS in Edinburgh. In addition, I have co-organised an Unconscious Bias Training Workshop and a Women in Mathematics Day conference through my role on the LMS Women in Mathematics Committee. I have also served on a number of EPSRC prioritisation panels, and have twice served on Birman Research Prize Committee in Topology and Geometry for the US- based Association for Women in Mathematics. At Glasgow I currently serve as Deputy Head of Mathematics, and completed two years as Convenor of the Mathematics Learning & Teaching Committee. From 2011-14, I served as Head of Level 2 Mathematics, coordinating a team that went on to win a Herald Higher Education Award this year for innovative feedback and assessment practices. Personal Statement: The LMS is instrumental in advocating for mathematics and for its membership, at every conceivable level: in schools and universities, in industry, and in government. At a time when funding is scarce, the LMS must continue its efforts to ensure adequate resources are available both for fundamental research in mathematics and for the training of new generations of mathematically-minded people. Working as a member of Council is a wonderful experience that gives unique opportunities to make the case for mathematics on the national and international level; for example, I have represented the LMS at events such as the recent EPSRC Pure Mathematics Engagement. I am also deeply interested in issues surrounding mathematics education, from primary school through to PhD, and in striving to increase the pool of people with mathematical skills and training in the wider population, in part by increasing participation of currently underrepresented groups. My aim is to continue to contribute to the LMS’s efforts in this regard, bringing to bear years of experience with organisations such as the US-based Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education and Research Experiences for Undergraduates, and, more recently, the Association for Women in Mathematics and Making Maths Count. Mirna Džamonja, Professor of Mathematics, University of East Anglia Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.uea.ac.uk/mathematics/people/profile/m-dzamonja PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1993. Previous appointments: At UEA since 1998, started as a Lecturer, then Reader in 2002 and Professor since 2010. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at UW-Madison, USA (1995-1998) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993-1995). A number of Visiting Positions at universities such at CUNY and UW-Madison, USA and Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, France. Research interests: Mathematical logic and foundations, in particular set theory and its connections with other fields of mathematics. Philosophy of mathematics and foundations of computer sciences. LMS Service: Member since 1998. Additional Information: I was a UK Delegate of the Individual Members at EMS, 2012-2015, Trustee of the European Set Theory Society (Treasurer 2009-2012, President 2012-2014), Secretary of the British Logic Colloquium (2003-2009), Chair of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) European branch (2008-2014) and a founding member of the ASL African Committee.

9 I am an editor of the Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Logic Quarterly and several other journals. I am also frequently invited to scientific committees, including the ones advising EPSRC and NSF. I have organised and co-organised various conferences, both as a member or chair of the Programming Committee and as a member of the organising committee. I am an Associate Member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1, Paris, France. I have had 12 PhD students (already graduated) and several current ones. Personal Statement: I have a very wide outlook on the mathematics and the mathematical community and am engaged in various ways. This includes various international initiatives, in Africa as much as in Europe. I am very passionate about mathematics and about the fact that it is an activity to be shared with equal rights among all people of the planet. I am equally passionate about the positive change that mathematical research can bring to the society. I think that these are the values represented by LMS and I wish to engage to further them. David Emrys Evans, Professor of Pure Mathematics, Cardiff University Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/98644-evans-david-e Phd: Oxford University 1975 Previous appointments: Professor Swansea October 1987 - May 1998. Lecturer/Reader at Warwick, January 1980 - September 1987. Guest Professor at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto 1990-91. Postdoctoral Appointments at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Oslo, UCLA, Copenhagen, and Ottawa. Research Interests: Operator algebras and applications and connections with K-theory, dynamical systems, statistical mechanics and conformal quantum field theory. LMS service: N/A Additional Information: Council Member of Learned Society of Wales 2014-17. Lead Organiser of Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Operator Algebras: Subfactors and Applications, January - June 2017. Organiser of Warwick Symposium on Operator Algebras and Applications 1986-87 including the first LMS Spitalfields Lectures. Co-ordinator of EU Networks in Operator Algebras and Non-commutative Geometry 2002-05 and 2007-11; Deputy Co-ordinator 1994-96 and 1996-99. RAE 2008 Specialist Advisor in Pure Mathematics. Chairman Wales Institute for Mathematical and Computational Sciences Steering Committee 2003-05, Member of Warwick Mathematics Research Centre Steering Committee 2000-05 Co- ordinator of EPSRC Network in Algebraic Geometry, Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry 2001-04. EPSRC College member 1995-97, 1997-99, 2003-05; Panel member on several occasions including Chair of Advanced Fellowship Panel 1997-98. Personal Statement: I am a pure mathematics by training and background. I believe in the unity of mathematics and have sought to work with theoretical physicists and have had some success with grant raising. However, I am aware that by the REF 2008 definition, my work has no impact. I am concerned about the future career prospects of early career researchers in pure mathematics and the potential for requiring economic impact to limit opportunities particularly in smaller departments. From my experience in running EU networks. I am aware of problems for non EU partners in network funding allocation rules - possibly arising from their governments/research councils not being in the room when the frameworks were drawn up. Continuing access to EU and ERC funds is a major concern. Dr Catherine Hobbs, Head of Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics, University of the West of England, Bristol. Email address: [email protected] Home page: http://fet.uwe.ac.uk/staff/staffDetails.asp?Catherine.Hobbs PhD: University of Liverpool, 1993. Previous appointments: 1992-94 Teaching Fellow, University of Nottingham; 1994-2010 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Head of Department/Associate Dean, Oxford Brookes University. 2001 Visiting Research Fellow University of Auckland; 2005-6 Visiting Fellow, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol. Research interests: Singularity Theory and its applications, particularly to physical sciences. LMS service: 1997-2000 and 2013-present Member at Large, LMS Council; 1998-2001 Chair LMS Women in Mathematics Committee; 2003-2007 and 2013-present Member, LMS Women in Mathematics Committee; 2003-2005 and 2008-2010 Member of LMS Nominating Committee; 2008-2013 LMS representative on BMC Scientific Committee; Member of LMS Publications Committee 2015-present.

10 Additional information: Chair of Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences Committee 2014-present; Member of EMS Women in Mathematics Committee 2004-2010; Member of Standing Committee of European Women in Mathematics, 2001-2007; Fellow of the IMA; Principal fellow of the HEA. Personal statement: I have had a long association with the LMS and a firm belief in the importance of the Society to UK mathematics, as a representative organisation as well as a publisher and supporter of research mathematics across the broad range of mathematical activity in the UK. As can be seen from my biographical details, I have a particular interest in promoting mathematics as a subject open to women and men. I think the LMS has moved a long way towards recognising that mathematical talent can be found everywhere regardless of gender, but am keen to be part of ensuring that momentum is kept up. I can also represent post-92 universities, a number of whom have strong undergraduate mathematics programmes, and bring the experience of being a head of department as well as being current Chair of HoDoMS to Council. Dr Martin Mathieu, Reader, Queen’s University Belfast Email: [email protected] Home page: http://maths.martinmathieu.net/ PhD: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany), 1987 Previous appointments: Scientific Assistant (C1), University of Tübingen, Germany, 1988-1994; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, 1993; Visiting Full Professor, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1994-1996; Visiting Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 1996-1998; Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 1998-2000; Reader, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2000-present; Head of Pure Mathematics Research Division, QUB, 2001-2005. Research interests: Functional Analysis, Operator Theory, C*-Algebras, Noncommutative Ring Theory, Noncommutative Topology. LMS service: since 1996 member of the London Mathematical Society; 2001-2003 LMS Council member; 2001-2003 LMS Programme Committee member. Additional information: Chair of British Mathematical Colloquium 2004 (at QUB); since 1994 member of the American Mathematical Society and the German Mathematical Society; since 1998 member of the Irish Mathematical Society; since 2012 member of the European Mathematical Society; 2012-2015 EMS Council member; since 2015 EMS Meetings Committee member; 2011-2012 Vice-President of the Irish Mathematical Society; 2013-2014 President of the Irish Mathematical Society; since 2010 elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy; 2000-2010 Editor of the Bulletin of the Irish Mathematical Society; since 2008 Editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; since 2006 Associate Editor of Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications; since 2009 Editorial Board Member of Extracta Mathematica. Personal Statement: The UK is a rather inhomogeneous political and scientific entity. The LMS, therefore, has to cater for a large variety of mathematical traditions, ambitions and educational systems. It has done this well in the past; certainly a good mix of LMS members from the various “corners” of the UK on the Council is helpful in this endeavour. Having taught and carried out research in four different university systems (in Germany; the US; the Republic of Ireland; and in Northern Ireland) and having always been in contact with many foreign mathematicians, especially through the almost 30 conferences I organised over my career, I feel well-equipped to add experience and knowledge to Council that can help to manifest the important role that Mathematics plays in UK society; at the same time to keep well-connected with international developments, especially during a time when the UK’s position may be less well-defined. Clément Mouhot, Professor of mathematical sciences, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Homepage: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~cm612/ PhD: 2004, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Previous appointments: Reader in Cambridge 2010-2013; CNRS Researcher in France (University Paris-Dauphine and École Normale Supérieure de Paris) 2005-2010. Research interests: My research involves analysis and probability, and has been focused so far on partial differential equations and stochastic processes arising from particle systems. LMS service: Prize Committee 2014-2016 Additional Information: Associate editor of Analysis & PDE, Journal of Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Journal of Statistical Physics, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, and co-Editor-in-chief of ESAIM Proceedings 2012-2015.

11 Personal Statement: If elected, I will do my best to help with the development of the LMS following the following principles: the importance of a large network of departments (including smaller ones) across the country for a lively mathematical research, the importance of covering all fields of mathematics and resisting sometimes the strong pressure from EPSRC funding towards only a restricted number of fields, the importance of both reflecting critically and doing the best out of the recent evolutions in research (funding agencies, larger and fewer grants, competition between departments, role of indicators like citations and h-index in assessment, etc.), the importance of a truly European integration and international collaboration for research, the importance and duty to popularise mathematics towards the general population that funds it through taxes, and towards school students who provide the future mathematicians. Anatoly I. Neishtadt, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Loughborough University. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://homepages.lboro.ac.uk/~maan2/ PhD: Moscow State University, 1976; DSc: Moscow State University, 1990. Previous appointments: 1975 -1987 Junior/Senior Research Fellow, All-Union Institute of Medical Engineering, Moscow; 1987 - Senior/Leading Research Fellow, Head of Laboratory, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences; 1996 - 2007 Professor, Institute of Natural Sciences and Ecology of Russian Scientific Centre “Kurchatov Institute” (since 2007 Department of Nanotechnology and Informatics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology); 1999 - 2007 Professor, Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics. Research interests: Applied dynamical systems, perturbation theory, averaging method, adiabatic invariants, bifurcation theory, problems with slow and fast motions in celestial mechanics, dynamics of charged particles, and hydrodynamics. LMS service: Co-Editor-in-Chief for LMS of IOP/LMS journal “Nonlinearity”, 2005 - 2014. Additional information: Invited address at ICM 1990, a panel member of the Programme Committee of ICM 1994 and 1998, Lyapunov Prize 2001, Member of Organising/Scientific Committees of various international events including: 2003, 2007 NATO Advanced Study Institute - Summer Schools (Co-Director), 2011 Fields Institute Thematic Program (Co- Organiser), 2011 Equadiff (Loughborough, member of National Organising Committee), 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 European Nonlinear Oscillation Conference (Co-Chair of mini-symposia). Personal statement: I believe the LMS should play more active role in the mathematics research community, in particular, by supporting research collaborations (including interdisciplinary), research meetings and conferences. If elected, I would represent in the LMS a part of mathematical community close to applications in natural sciences, but work in the interests of the entire mathematical community. Norbert Peyerimhoff, Professor of Mathematics, Durham University Email: [email protected] Home page: https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/staff/academic/?id=1687 PhD: 1993, University of Augsburg (Germany) Previous appointments: Durham: 2004-2008 Lecturer; 2008-2013 Reader; Professor since 2013 Bochum, Germany: 1997- 2001 Assistant; 2001-2004 C2 Hochschuldozent Basel, Switzerland: 1996-1997 Assistant CUNY, USA: 1994-1996 Postdoc of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Augsburg, Germany: 1992-1994 Assistant Research Interests: Riemannian Geometry, Discrete Geometry, Spectral Theory, Graph Theory, Dynamical Systems LMS Service: LMS Representative at Durham University since 2012; Co-Organiser of the 2013 LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposium “Graph Theory and Interactions”; Co-Investigator of the EPSRC Consolidated grant for the LMS Durham Symposia since 2010 Additional Information: Involvement in the organisation of the “Prospects in Mathematics” Meetings at Durham University in 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2013 for final year UK undergraduates interested in doing a PhD in mathematics and in the creation of the “MMath (European Studies)” Undergraduate Programme at Durham. Currently, PI of a joint Durham/Newcastle EPSRC-grant “Topology, Geometry and Laplacians of Simplicial Complexes”. Also member of DMV, AMS, and of “Friends of Oberwolfach”. List of preprints and publications and teaching experience at http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~dma0np/ Personal statement: I have benefitted from several LMS grants, for which I am very grateful, to foster my collaborations with overseas colleagues and to organise international conferences in the UK. I believe that the size of these grants, relatively modest by science standards, are perfect for many mathematicians and represent excellent value for money for UK science. If elected as a Council member, I would strive to support the LMS, especially in fostering international collaborations. In particular, in light of the recent vote to leave the EU, I believe that it is critical to protect existing and prospective collaborative research with our EU colleagues.

12 Sarah Zerbes, Professor of Mathematics, University College London Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahsze/ PhD: 2005, University of Cambridge Previous appointments: 2005 – 2006 Hodge fellow (IHES); 2006 – 2008 Chapman fellow (Imperial College); 2008 – 2011 EPSRC Postdoctoral fellow; 2008 – 2012 Lecturer/Senior lecturer (University of Exeter); 2012 – 2016 Senior lecturer/ Reader (University College London); 2014 Visiting Research Professor (MSRI) Research interests: Algebraic number theory, Iwasawa theory, modular forms, p-adic Hodge theory. LMS service: I have been a member of the LMS since 2004, but this would be my first opportunity to contribute to its work. Additional information: Invited speaker at the European Women in Mathematics Meeting, part of ECM 2016. 2015 LMS Whitehead Prize (jointly with David Loeffler); Organizer (together with Tim and Vladimir Dokchitser and David Loeffler) of the conference Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms and Iwasawa Theory, in honour of John Coates’ 70th birthday, March 2015. Organizer of the Number Theory Workshop at the BMC 2014, Queen Mary University of London Member of the EPSRC Mathematics Prioritisation Panel 2016. Former member of the management team for the London School of Geometry and Number Theory Personal statement: Throughout my career so far I have admired the role the LMS plays in promoting mathematics and representing the interests of UK-based mathematicians. I very much hope that I will be able to contribute to the LMS’ work. I have a particular interest in the support the LMS offers to early-career mathematicians and mathematicians who have taken career breaks, e.g. through travel grants and fellowships.

Candidates for election to Nominating Committee (4 vacancies – 2x 3-year terms, 1x 2-year term & 1x 1-year term)

Simon Robert Blackburn, Professor of Pure Mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/sblackburn DPhil: Oxford, 1992 Previous appointments: SERC Research Assistant, Royal Holloway 1992-1995; EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Royal Holloway 1995-2000; Reader in Mathematics, Royal Holloway 2000-2003; Professor of Pure Mathematics, Royal Holloway 2004-. Research interests: Combinatorics, group theory and applications to communication theory and cryptography. Additional information: Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College; member of the REF 2014 Mathematical Sciences Sub- Panel; Member of the British Combinatorial Committee; organiser of the 2013 British Combinatorial Conference; Head of Mathematics Department (2004-7). Personal statement: If elected, I will work hard to assist the Nominations Committee to ensure LMS candidate slates are `balanced and reflect a broad range of mathematical specialisms, draw on all regions of the UK and have an appropriate gender balance’. I am enthusiastic about a wide range of mathematics, and I hope these interests will assist me in this important role. Charles Martin Elliott, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick. Email: [email protected] Home page: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/sta/C.M.Elliott/ D. Phil: University of Oxford, 1976 Previous appointments: Head of Department, Mathematics, University of Sussex 2003 - 2007; Chair of Mathematics, University of Sussex 1987- 2007; Visiting Associate Professor Mathematics 1985-1986 Purdue University; University Lecturer Mathematics 1978-1986; Imperial College of Science and Technology; Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1975-1978 Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Research interests: Partial differential equations; analysis and numerical analysis; free boundary problems; geometric PDEs; models in biology and material science; computational applied mathematics.

13 LMS Service: Reviewer for Undergraduate Research Bursary Scheme. Additional information: Humboldt Prize 2010. SIAM Fellow 2015. Rothschild Distinguished Fellowship Newton Institute 2015. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2016. Director of MASDOC 2010-current. Member of EPSRC Mathematics College. Editor of Interfaces and Free Boundaries; Editorial Board of IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Hokkaido Mathematical Journal, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, Proceedings Royal Society Series A. Organiser of many workshops in Oberwolfach and the UK. Personal statement: I have a special interests in the promotion of rigorous mathematics within applications and in improving UK post-graduate education especially with respect to UK PhDs being internationally competitive. Roger Heath-Brown FRS, Professor Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Home page: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/roger.heath-brown PhD: Cambridge, 1977 Previous appointments: Research Fellow, Trinity college, Cambridge, 1977-1979 Tutor & CUF Lecturer, Oxford, 1979-1990 Tutor & Reader, Oxford, 1990-1998 Research interests: Number Theory, particularly analytic number theory and Diophantine geometry LMS service: I served one term on LMS council in the 1980s, and was an editorial advisor for the Bulletin, Journal & Proceedings (1983-1997). I am currently an editor of the LMS Lecture Notes series. Additional Information: I will retire from my university post at the end of September 2016. Philip K. Maini FRS, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford. email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/maini/ D.Phil: University of Oxford 1985 Previous appointments: 1985 & 1986-87 Science Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford; 1986 Assistant Master, Eton College (Offered permanent appointment); 1987-88 College Lecturer, applied mathematics, Balliol College, Oxford; 1987-88 Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford; 1988-90 Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Offered Associate Professorship with tenure (1991)); 1990-2005 University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford;1990-2005 Tutorial Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford;1998-2005 Appointed Professor in Mathematical Biology by Recognition of Distinction (Oxford); 1998 - Appointed Director, Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford; 2005- Statutory Professor in Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford; 2005- Professorial Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford. Research Interests: Mathematical biology – using mainly ODEs, PDEs and discrete models to analyse problems in developmental biology, cancer and wound healing. LMS service: I joined the LMS in 1992. Since then I have reviewed various grant applications and I was a reviewer for the Whitehead Prize (2015). Additional Information: LMS Naylor Prize awarded 2009. I am on several journal editorial boards, have been organiser/co- organiser of many conferences, and was member of the 2008 RAE applied mathematics panel and co-author of 3 landscape documents on mathematical biology for EPSRC. I also attend many conferences in the general area of mathematics so feel that I have a reasonable overview of the mathematics community. Marta Mazzocco, Professor of Mathematics, Loughborough University. Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://homepages.lboro.ac.uk/~mamm4/ PhD: SISSA, Italy, 1998. Previous appointments: 1998-99 post doc at MSRI Berkley, 1999-2002 RA at Oxford, 2002-05 Temporary University Lecturer at DPMMS Cambridge, 2005-08 Lecturer and SL at Manchester, 2008 Reader at Loughborough University. Research Interests: I work in Integrable Systems, specialising in monodromy preserving deformations of linear systems, Poisson algebras and their quantisation.

14 LMS service: I have been a member of the LMS since 2000, I have served in the steering committee of Prospects in Mathematics since 2014 and I chair such committee since June 2016. Additional information: I am a member of the Council of the European Mathematical Society since June 2016, and the Institute of Mathematics and Applications Research Committee since 2013. Personal statement: I am a keen advocate of the importance of basic research and its role in society. For example I have provided evidence (with Prof. Ferapontov and Dr Stohmaier) to the parliament enquiry on the “Impact of spending cuts on science and scientific research” and written a document on the role of basic research at Loughborough University that has been submitted to the PVCR in order to influence the University Strategy. I am passionate in promoting Equality and Diversity initiatives both within my own University and internationally. I have successfully led my department to win an Athena SWAN silver award (one of only 5 mathematics departments in the UK to have achieved this), I act as director of Equality and Diversity for the School of Science at Loughborough and am an active member of the European Women in Mathematics network. Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University Email: [email protected] Homepage: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/ulrike.tillmann PhD: from Stanford, Habilitation form Bonn Previous appointments: 1990-92 Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall and SERC post-doc Research Interests: Algebraic Topology and its applications LMS service: Prizes Committee 2007- 09, 2015 -17; Publications Committee 2007 – 12; Council 2008-2014; Research Meetings Committee 2011 - 2014 (Chair); Bulletin/Journal/Proceedings Advisor 2004- 2007; Journal of Topology 2007 – (inaugural managing editor) Additional Information: received LMS Whitehead Prize, Bessel Forschungs Preis (Humboldt Foundation) Personal Statement: Having been involved with the LMS and in particular having served on Council, I feel strongly that the Society has much to offer the UK mathematics community, but also that it is important that a broad diversity of the community is involved and represented on Council and its committees. If elected, I will be pleased to serve on the nomination committee to work towards the goal that the different LMS committees and Council can do their work efficiently and wisely while at the same time its members represent geographical, gender and subject interest diversity.

15 NOMINATION INFORMATION Officer Roles The following nominations for Officersof Council have been made in accordance with the Society’s By-Laws.

Role Nominee Nominator President Simon Tavaré Nominating Committee Ken Brown Vice-Presidents (2 vacancies) Nominating Committee John Greenlees Treasurer Robert Curtis Nominating Committee General Secretary Stephen Huggett Nominating Committee Publications Secretary John Hunton Nominating Committee Programme Secretary Iain A. Stewart Nominating Committee Education Secretary Alice Rogers Nominating Committee Members-at-Large of Council The following nominations for Members-at-Large of Council have been made in accordance with the Society’s By-Laws. Six two-year terms are contested in the election. The list is alphabetical. Role Nominee Nominator Member-at-Large of Council Martina Balagovic Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Alexandre Borovik Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Tara Brendle Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Francis W Clarke Nominating Committee Nominator: Beatrice Pelloni Seconders: David M Member-at-Large of Council Mirna Džamonja Evans, Angus Macintyre, Dugald Macpherson Member-at-Large of Council David E Evans Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Catherine Hobbs Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Martin Mathieu Nominating Committee Member-at-Large of Council Clément Mouhot Nominating Committee Nominator: Alexander Veselov Seconders: Peter Member-at-Large of Council Anatoly Neishtadt Ashwin, Jonathan Keating, Robert Mackay Nominator: Richard Sharp Seconders: Peter Cameron, Member-at-Large of Council Norbert Peyerimhoff Leonid Parnovski, Djoko Wirosoetisno. Member-at-Large of Council Sarah Zerbes Nominating Committee Five Members-at-Large who were elected for two years in 2015 have a year of their terms left to serve; they are: Tony Gardiner, Sam Howison, Diane Maclagan, Gwyneth Stallard and Alina Vdovina. In 2016, the role of Member-at-Large (Librarian) will be open for election. This is a role created following By-Law changes at the 2012 AGM. The term of office is one year, to a maximum of ten years. The following nomination has been made in accordance with the Society’s By-Laws. Role Nominee Nominator Member-at-Large (Librarian) June Barrow-Green Nominating Committee

16 Nominating Committee The following nominations for the Nominating Committee have been made in accordance with the Society’s By-Laws: There are 4 vacancies being contested in the election. These are: • 2x 3-year terms • 1x 2-year term • 1x 1-year term The list is alphabetical. Role Nominee Nominator Nominating Committee Simon R Blackburn Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Charles M Elliott Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Roger Heath-Brown Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Philip Maini Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Marta Mazzocco Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Ulrike Tillmann Nominating Committee The continuing members of the Nominating Committee are John Toland (Chair), Sarah Rees and Alex Wilkie. In addition, Council will appoint a representative to the Committee.

17 SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE There are many different ways of conducting an STV election. The version to be used in the current LMS election is known as Meek’s method. It has the approval of the Electoral Reform Society and is used by other reputable organisations such as the Royal Statistical Society. From an elector’s point of view, the system is simple: numbers have to be placed against candidates’ names on the ballot paper to indicate the voter’s order of preference. Equal rankings are allowed, and not all candidates have to be given a rank. Two basic principles govern the counting. First, if a candidate needs v votes to be elected but actually has n > v, then a fraction (n − v) / n of each of these votes is passed on to candidates ranked lower on each relevant ballot paper. Naturally this means that some ‘votes’ have become fractional, but this causes no problems. Secondly if, after the above procedure has been iterated as far as possible, there are still vacant seats, all the votes of the candidate with the lowest total vote are redistributed in the same way. (If two candidates are tied at the lowest vote, one is chosen by a random process.) A precise description of the procedure follows. 1. Each candidate, at any stage of the election, is either elected, hopeful or excluded. Initially everyone is hopeful. x w 2. At each stage of the count, each candidate has an associated weight x. At this stage the candidate keeps a proportion wx of any vote or fraction of a vote received, and the remaining proportion (1 − wx) is passed on to another candidate (or in equal shares to a group of candidates if these have equal rankings). Excluded candidates have weight 0, so keep nothing. Hopeful candidates have weight 1 and keep everything which is passed to them. Elected candidates have weights between 0 and 1 determined as in §4. 3. If on a ballot paper a candidate a is ranked first,b second, c third and so on, then, at any stage a receives from that

elector wa of the vote, b receives (1 – wa) wb of the vote, c receives (1 – wa) (1 – wb) wc of the vote, and so on. Notice that if any candidate listed is hopeful, all fractions transferred to later candidates are 0. If any part of the vote remains to be passed on after the whole list has been dealt with (which could happen easily if the ballot paper ranks only one candidate), that part is counted as excess. Initially there is no excess. 4. The quota – the vote a candidate must exceed at any stage in order to be elected – is defined to be total( votes – total excess) / (number of seats + 1). The weights for elected candidates at each stage are determined (uniquely) by the requirement that the vote which remains with each of them is equal to the current quota; these weights are calculated by an iterative procedure. 5. At each stage the quota and weights are calculated according to §4, and then the procedures of §§2,3 are applied. Any candidate with more than the current quota of votes is declared elected and retains this status thereafter. If this means that at least one hopeful candidate changes to an elected candidate, the procedure is repeated. 6. If no hopeful candidate was elected in §5, the hopeful candidate with the lowest total vote at this stage (or one such chosen at random if there are many) is declared excluded, and the procedure is repeated with that candidate’s weight changed to 0. 7. When the total number of elected candidates is equal to the number of seats the process stops. NOTE: The description above is the same as in the May 1999 Newsletter and is essentially taken from the paper Single transferable vote by Meek’s method by I.D. Hill, B.A. Wichmann and D.R. Woodall (Computer J 30 (1987) 277–281), where more details are presented.

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