LONDONLONDON MATHEMATICALMATHEMATICAL SOCIETYSOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 437 June 2014 Society Meetings Society and Events SHEPHARD PRIZE: NEW PRIZE Meetings FOR MATHEMATICS 2014 and Events Following a very generous tions open in late 2014. The prize Monday 16 June donation made by Professor may be awarded to either a single Midlands Regional Meeting, Loughborough Geoffrey Shephard, the London winner or jointly to collaborators. page 11 Mathematical Society will, in 2015, The mathematical contribution Friday 4 July introduce a new prize. The prize, to which an award will be made Graduate Student to be known as the Shephard must be published, though there Meeting, Prize will be awarded bienni- is no requirement that the pub- London ally. The award will be made to lication be in an LMS-published page 8 a mathematician (or mathemati- journal. Friday 4 July cians) based in the UK in recog- Professor Shephard himself is 1 Society Meeting nition of a specific contribution Professor of Mathematics at the Hardy Lecture to mathematics with a strong University of East Anglia whose London intuitive component which can be main fields of interest are in page 9 explained to those with little or convex geometry and tessella- Wednesday 9 July no knowledge of university math- tions. Professor Shephard is one LMS Popular Lectures ematics, though the work itself of the longest-standing members London may involve more advanced ideas. of the LMS, having given more page 17 The Society now actively en- than sixty years of membership. Tuesday 19 August courages members to consider The Society wishes to place on LMS Meeting and Reception nominees who could be put record its thanks for his support ICM 2014, Seoul forward for the award of a in the establishment of the new page 11 Shephard Prize when nomina- prize. Saturday 6 September Mathematics and the First FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 2014 World War Meeting, Among those elected to Fellow- • Martin Hairer, Regius Profes- London ship of the Royal Society in 2014 sor of Mathematics, Math- Wednesday were: ematics Institute, University 24 September • Tom Bridgeland, Professor of of Warwick LMS Popular Lectures Pure Mathematics, School of • Vladimir Markovic, Sadleirian Birmingham Mathematics and Statistics, Professor of Mathematics, De- page 17 University of Sheffield partment of Pure Mathemat- Friday 14 November • Geoffrey Grimmett, Profes- ics and Mathematics Statistics, LMS AGM sor of Mathematical Statis- University of Cambridge London page 3 tics, Statistical Laboratory, For further information visit NEWSLETTER University of Cambridge, and the website at https://royalso NEWSLETTERONLINE: Master, Downing College, ciety.org/about-us/fellowship/ ONLINE:newsletter.lms.ac.uk Cambridge new-fellows-2014/. newsletter.lms.ac.uk LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk [email protected] No. 437 June 2014 GENERAL MEETING mitting proposals are at www.newton.ac.uk/ Contents callprop.html. 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