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NEWSLETTER No NEWSLETTER No. 446 April 2015 LMS 150TH ANNIVERSARY QUEEN OF THE SCIENCES: A CELEBRATION OF NUMBERS AND THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY n exhibition of early documents and pho- ditionally, a number of portrait photos of past Atographs from the LMS archives opened in Presidents are featured, as are tickets from early February at the University College London (UCL) Society meetings and lectures. One ticket, in par- Main Library. The exhibition, displayed in three ticular, reads: ‘This ticket will admit one person cabinets and across two floors of the library, is into the Mathematical Society on Shrove Tuesday supplemented by material featuring the numbers night, on paying the Bearer Six-pence.’ 1 to 9 from UCL’s own Special Collections. The exhibition is free, open to all, and will Highlights include a student’s sketch of the remain in situ for the remainder of 2015, allowing LMS founding President Augustus De Morgan, a plenty of time to see and appreciate these rare sketch of an early LMS logo by Sophia De Morgan, and historic insights into the history of the LMS. and a letter from George De Morgan and Arthur For more information visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ Cowper Ranyard inviting Thomas Archer Hirst to library/exhibitions or call the UCL Library the inaugural meeting of the Society in 1865. Ad- reception on 020 7679 7793. SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS • Wednesday 1 April: LMS 150th Anniversary Celebration Day • 9 May: LMS-BSHM De Morgan Day, London page 25 at BMC-BAMC Joint Meeting, Cambridge • 3 July: Hardy Lecture LMS Meeting, London page 19 • Tuesday 7 April: Northern Regional Meeting, Lancaster • 7 July: Midlands Regional Meeting, Warwick page 34 page 24 • 20-31 July: Undergraduate Summer School, • 14-17 April: Women in Maths Event, Oxford page 23 Loughborough NEWSLETTER ONLINE: newsletter.lms.ac.uk @LondMathSoc LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Contents No. 446 April 2015 20 16 150th Anniversary Events Groups, Representations, and Anniversary Celebrations events................11 Cohomology............................................31 LMS-EMS Mathematical Meeting: International Mathematics Competition Joint Anniversary Weekend....................15 for University Students............................33 Mathematics Department Celebrates Mathematics and Computation in Music...30 Anniversary................................................3 Metric and Analytic Aspects of Moduli Queen of Sciences........................................1 Spaces INI Workshop...............................43 2 Profinite Groups Meeting............................33 Awards Stochastic Processes and their Clay Research Fellows 2015..........................21 Applications Conference..........................32 Calendar of Events 42 Symbolic and Algebraic Computation......30 LMS Items News Institut Henri Poincaré................................. Annual Elections to LMS Council...............8 21 Mathematics Policy Round-up....................4 Council Diary.................................................14 Hardy Lecture Tour......................................18 Obituaries Holgate Lectures and Workshops..............10 Leigh, Ron....................................................37 LMS-Gresham College joint meeting.........26 Schneider, Hans............................................37 Strategic Retreat..........................................13 Reports LMS Meetings Cecil King Travel Scholarship.......................12 De Morgan Day............................................25 Graph Theory in Design...............................16 Developments in Modern Probability: Jordan Geometric Analysis.........................20 LMS-CMI Research School........................9 Undergraduate Colloquium.......................12 Diophantine Equations: LMS-CMI Reviews Research School.........................................28 Man Ray Exhibition......................................38 Hardy Lecture...............................................19 Math and the Mona Lisa..............................39 Midlands Regional Meeting.......................34 Mathematics and the Real World..............40 Northern Regional Meeting.......................24 Regularity and Analytic Methods in Com- Scholarship and Funding binatorics: LMS-CMI Research School.......27 LSM Funding Undergraduate Meetings.....3 Women in Maths Event..............................23 LMS Grant Schemes.....................................5 Meetings Visits BSHM Events................................................32 Banks, David.................................................29 Design and Analysis of Experiments Dajani, Karma...............................................30 in Health Care INI Workshop....................35 Manolescu, Ciprian.......................................29 Fourier-Mukai, 34 Years On.........................31 Secchi, Paolo.................................................29 [email protected] No. 446 April 2015 LMS 150TH ANNIVERSARY MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTS JOIN IN THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS The Society is keen to involve as many of To aid in this, the Society is offering grants of its members and the wider mathematics £100 towards the cost of wine and other supplies. community as possible in celebrating such a The only conditions are that a toast is made to the momentous occasion. Through the LMS Rep- continued health of the Society and mathematics resentatives network it is asking mathematics and that pictures/webcasts/vox pops of the toasts departments across the UK to hold LMS 150th are sent for inclusion on the website and/or in the Anniversary receptions, either as a standalone LMS Newsletter ([email protected]). For infor- activity or as part of another event already mation on this celebration, and to receive a copy being organised. of the grant form, please email [email protected]. LMS FUNDING FOR UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY MEETINGS 2015 Applications for Future Undergraduate Applicants should contact Elizabeth Fisher (lms- Mathematical Society Meetings [email protected]) for an application form. Applications should be counter-signed by the In 2015, the LMS Research Meetings Committee LMS Departmental Representative. For a list has, so far, supported one Undergraduate Math- 3 of LMS Representatives, visit: www.lms.ac.uk/ ematical Society Meeting: membership/lms-representatives If your depart- • Application of Fluid Dynamics to Atmosphere ment does not have a LMS Rep, please contact and the Ocean, Durham (see report on p12) Elizabeth Fisher ([email protected]). The LMS considers requests from Undergradu- ate Mathematical Societies to host a meeting LMS-sponsored Undergraduate and offers funding of up to £500 for either full Mathematical Society Meetings or partial support for travel and subsistence of held during 2014 a speaker(s), and reasonable costs for catering. In 2014, the LMS supported the following Applications can be made at any time but the Research Workshops Undergraduate Math- deadline for applications in the current financial ematical Society Meetings: year is Wednesday 1 July 2015. There is limited • Juggling: Theory and Practice, St. Andrews funding and applications will be considered on • Mathematics in the World of Gaming, King’s a first-come, first-served basis. College London Editorial team Publication dates and deadlines http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Editorial office General Editor Published monthly, except August. Items and advertise- London Mathematical Society, Mr A.J.S. Mann ments by the first day of the month prior to publication, De Morgan House, 57–58 Russell ([email protected]) or the closest preceding working day. Notices and adver- Square, London WC1B 4HS tisements are not accepted for events that occur in the (t: 020 7637 3686; Reviews Editor first week of the publication month. Professor D. Singerman f: 020 7323 3655) News items and notices in the Newsletter may be freely ([email protected]) Events calendar used elsewhere unless otherwise stated, although attribu- tion is requested when reproducing whole articles. 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