NEWSLETTER No. 467 March 2017 MATHEMATICIAN RECEIVES TOP HONOUR rofessor Martin Hairer FRS, PUniversity of Warwick, has been awarded an honorary KBE. The award of Knight Commander, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire rewards ‘contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare or- ganisations, and public service outside the Civil Service’ and is given in an honorary capacity to foreign nationals. Professor Hairer works in the field of stochastic analysis. He is currently Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, having previously held a position at the Courant Institute of has been awarded both the LMS Whitehead Mathematical Science, New York University. (2008) and Fröhlich (2014) Prizes. He has also He is a leader in the field of stochastic partial received the Philip Leverhulme Prize, Lev- differential equations in particular, and in erhulme Trust (2008) and Wolfson Research stochastic analysis and stochastic dynamics in Merit Award, Royal Society (2009). general. By bringing new ideas to the subject Professor Hairer also presented the LMS he has made fundamental advances in many Popular Lectures during its 150th Anniversary important directions. year in 2015 and was one of nine prominent He has also received several other prestig- mathematicians interviewed for the LMS ious awards and honours. He was awarded the 150th Anniversary film Thinking Space. Short Fields Medal in 2014 and was elected a Fellow clips from the film are available at https:// of the Royal Society in the same year. He www.lms.ac.uk/library/frames-of-mind. SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS 2017 • 3 April: Society Meeting at BMC, Durham page 7 • 30 June: Society Meeting, London • 18–22 April: LMS Invited Lectures, Newcastle page 10 • 10 November: Graduate Student Meeting, London • 5 May: Mary Cartwright Lecture, London page 6 • 10 November: Annual General Meeting, London • 1 June: Northern Regional Meeting, York • 11 December: SW & South Wales Regional • 30 June: Graduate Student Meeting, London Meeting, Cardiff NEWSLETTER ONLINE: newsletter.lms.ac.uk @LondMathSoc LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Contents No. 467 March 2017 8 13 Awards Meetings Fermat Prize 2017.............................................3 British Mathematical Colloquium 2017...........7 ICIAM Prizes 2019.............................................4 Harmonic Analysis and PDE Network.........25 Martin Hairer Receives Top Honour................1 Mathematical Modelling of Random 2 Ostrowski Prize 2017.........................................3 Multicomponent Systems.............................25 Simon Donaldson Awarded Doctor Mathematical Physics Day..............................24 Honoris Causa................................................13 Novel Mathematical Approaches for Wolf Prize 2017.................................................3 Modelling Evolution in Complex Living Calendar of Events 35 Systems...........................................................24 Scottish Operator Algebras Research.............25 LMS Items UCLan Mathematics Society Seminar...............24 Aitken Lecture Tour - Hinke Osinga.................34 Annual Elections to LMS Council...................9 News Cecil King Travel Scholarship 2017...................23 Abel Prize 2017 Diary......................................4 Durham Symposia 2018 – call for proposals....32 European News.................................................13 Verblunsky Members’ Room............................8 Impact of Human Interactions in Mathematics................................................14 LMS Meetings Mathematics Policy Round-Up.......................12 Algebraic Topology of Manifolds Research PROMYS Europe...............................................15 School.............................................................16 Introduction to Geometry, Dynamics, and Reports Moduli in Low Dimensions Research School...17 Sublime Symmetry Symposium........................18 Invited Lecturer 2017.......................................10 Young Theorists' Forum....................................19 Mary Cartwright Lecture..................................6 Microlocal Analysis and Applications Reviews Research School..............................................20 A Mathematician’s Journeys............................26 New Trends in Representation Theory Gallery of the Infinite.......................................28 Research School..............................................21 The Ascent of Mary Somerville.......................29 Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions Research School............................11 Visits Society Meeting at BMC...................................7 Catania, Davide.................................................22 Women in Mathematics Day............................31 Davidson, Kenneth............................................22 [email protected] No. 467 March 2017 FERMAT PRIZE 2017 Call for Nominations The Fermat Prize for Mathematics Research €20,000 granted every two years by the Région rewards the research work of one or more Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée. For more in- mathematicians, less than 45 years old, in fields formation, and how to apply, visit the website where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/PrixFermat. have been decisive: Closing date for applications is 30 June 2017. • Statements of variational principles, or more Previous laureates are: A. Bahri, K.A. Ribet generally partial differential equations. (1989), J.-L. Colliot-Thél�ne (1991), J-M. Coron • Foundations of probability and analytical (1993), A.J. Wiles (1995), M. Talagrand (1997), F. geometry. Bethuel, F. Hélein (1999), R.L. Taylor, W. Werner • Number theory. (2001), L. Ambrosio (2003), P. Colmz, J-F. Le The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding Gall (2005), C. Khare (2007), E. Lindenstrauss, C. the results of research accessible to the greatest Villani (2009), M. Bhargava, I. Rodnianski (2011), number of professional mathematicians within C. De Lellis, M. Hairer (2013), L. Saint- Raymond, these fields. The amount of the award is P. Scholze (2015). OSTROWSKI PRIZE 2017 Call for Nominations 3 The aim of the Ostrowski Foundation is to The jury invites nominations for candidates for promote the mathematical sciences. Every the 2017 Ostrowski Prize. Nominations should second year it provides a prize for recent out- be sent to the Chair of the jury for 2017, Gil Kalai, standing achievements in pure mathematics and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (kalai@ in the foundations of numerical mathematics. math.huji.ac.il) by 15 May 2017. WOLF PRIZE 2017 Charles Fefferman (Princeton University) and Prize in Mathematics for ‘their striking contri- Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine) butions to analysis and geometry’. The two will have been named the winners of the 2017 Wolf share the US$100,000 prize. Editorial team Publication dates and deadlines http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Editorial office General Editor Published monthly, except August. 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The prize amount is NOK 6 committee and the Abel board, members million (about €7675,000, £578.00) and was of the Academy's mathematics group and awarded for the first time on 3 June 2003. visiting mathematicians from many countries. By invitation only. Abel Prize announcement 21 March 2017 at 12:00 Abel Prize Award Ceremony The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 23 May 2017 at 14:00 The name of the 2017 Abel Laureate will be University Aula, Oslo, Norway announced by Ole M. Sejersted, President The Abel Laureate will receive the Abel Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Science and at an award ceremony in the University Letters. The chair of the Abel committee John Aula in Oslo, Norway. The ceremony will be Rognes will then give the reasons for the followed by a reception and an