NEWSLETTER No. 460 July 2016 LMS PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE he London Mathematical Society is pleased to announce TProfessor Caroline Series FRS, University of Warwick, as Presi- dent-Designate. Professor Series will take over from the current President, Professor Simon Tavaré, FRS, FMedSci, in November 2017. Professor Series is known for her leading contributions to hyper- bolic geometry and symbolic dynamics, and for the major impact of her numerous initiatives towards the advancement of women in mathematics. Professor Tavaré commented, "I welcome the opportunity to work with Professor Series in her year as President-Designate as we continue the LMS’s efforts to support mathematics in the UK". © Michelle Tennison (Cont'd on page 3) NIGEL HITCHIN AWARDED SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES igel J. Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University Nof Oxford and Past President of the LMS, is the winner of the 2016 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. This international award honours individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence. Professor Hitchin was awarded the prize for "his far-reaching con- tributions to geometry, representation theory and theoretical physics. The fundamental and elegant concepts and techniques that he has introduced have had wide impact and are of lasting importance". (Cont'd on page 4) SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS • 21 July: Society Meeting at the 7ECM, Berlin page 21 • 20 December: SW & South Wales Regional • 15 September: Midlands Regional Meeting, Meeting, Bath Birmingham page 14 • 24 February 2017: Mary Cartwright Lecture, London • 21 September: Popular Lectures, Birmingham page 15 • 3–7 April 2017: LMS Society Meeting at BMC, Surrey • 11 November: Graduate Student Meeting, London • 30 June 2017: Graduate Student Meeting, London • 11 November: Annual General Meeting, London • 30 June 2017: General Meeting, London NEWSLETTER ONLINE: newsletter.lms.ac.uk @LondMathSoc LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Contents No. 460 July 2016 11 16 Awards Stochastic Analysis.......................................29 Birthday Honours.........................................4 Topics in SDEs and their Link to (S)PDEs.....29 Collingwood Memorial Prize......................7 News 2 Excellence in Mathematics Education American Mathematical Society................19 Award........................................................5 Beauty of Mathematics...............................16 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.........1 Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung........17 Calendar of Events 42 EPSRC’s Doctoral Training Partnerships and the Mathematical Sciences..............8 LMS Items European News...........................................12 Council Diary.................................................10 Mathematics Policy Round-up....................13 LMS Prizes.....................................................6 Obituaries News for Undergraduates, PGs & ECRs......11 Barth, Karl.....................................................35 President Designate.....................................1 McCrudden, Michael....................................34 LMS Meetings Reports Midlands Regional Meeting & Workshop...14 Cecil King Travel Scholarship......................23 Popular Lectures...........................................15 David Crighton Medal.................................22 Society Meeting at 7ECM Berlin.................21 Dynamics of Complex Systems....................24 Meetings North British Functional Analysis Seminar...28 Operators, Operator Families Algebra, Combinatorics, Dynamics and and Asymptotics........................................26 Applications...............................................30 Young Applied Analysts in the UK.............27 British Science Festival................................31 Dynamic Networks INI Workshop...........32 Reviews Geometric Models of Nuclear Matter......30 Livro de Problemas de Almada Negreiros...38 Mathematics Education for the Mathematical Mindsets...............................41 Next Decade..............................................29 Quite Right...................................................40 New Developments in Data Privacy The G.H. Hardy Reader................................36 INI Workshop.............................................32 Visits Representations and Homology.................30 Izzo, Alexander.............................................28 Statistical Modelling INI Workshop...........34 Lamouki, Reza...............................................29 [email protected] No. 460 July 2016 Professor Series obtained her PhD from maticians and associated initiatives. She was Harvard University in 1976 after which she also the first recipient of the Senior Anne was a lecturer at the University of Califor- Bennett Prize of the LMS in recognition of nia Berkeley. She then returned to the UK to her work in mathematics and in particular the position of research fellow at Newnham the advancement of women in mathematics. College, Cambridge. From 1978 she has In 2016 Professor Series was elected a Fellow held positions at the University of Warwick. of The Royal Society (FRS). Professor Series’ research concerns Professor Series’ notable contributions intricate and fundamental questions about to the work of the LMS include as Chair of the geometry of surfaces and 3-manifolds. the LMS Nominating Committee, Council Her work has been highly influential in both Member at Large, International Mathemati- hyperbolic geometry and symbolic dynamics. cal Union Representative, BMC Committee Revealing their deep links, it has had appli- Representative and Chief Editor of the LMS cations to ergodic theory and Diophantine Student Texts. She was also the first Mary approximation, and was a precursor to the Cartwright Lecturer in 2000. theory of word hyperbolic and automatic Her work has also included membership groups. More recently, Professor Series of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) developed an original geometrical approach Pure Mathematics sub-panel (2008) and the to understanding spaces of Kleinian groups. Research Excellence Framework (REF) Math- Besides ground breaking research, she has ematical Science Panel (2014). contributed extensively to the mathematical Professor Series has also communicated community both nationally and internation- her research to a wider audience, including 3 ally. In particular, she has a distinguished in the elegant publication Indra’s Pearls and record in encouraging women mathemati- also as one of the interviewees in the LMS cians: as a founder member of European film Thinking Space, which was produced as Women in Mathematics, in initiating UK part of the Society’s 150th Anniversary cel- Women in Mathematics Days, as Chair of the ebrations in 2015. Professor Series has also European Mathematical Society’s Women in given presentations at the Royal Institution Mathematics Committee, Vice Chair of the and presented an LMS Popular Lecture in IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, 1999. She was also President of the Math- and through her involvement in the first In- ematical Section, British Science Association ternational Conferences of Women Mathe- in 2011. Editorial team Publication dates and deadlines http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Editorial office General Editor Published monthly, except August. Items and adver- London Mathematical Society, Mr A.J.S. Mann tisements by the first day of the month prior to publi- De Morgan House, 57–58 Russell ([email protected]) cation, or the closest preceding working day. Notices Square, London WC1B 4HS and advertisements are not accepted for events that Reports Editor occur in the first week of the publication month. (t: 020 7637 3686; Professor I. A. Stewart f: 020 7323 3655) ([email protected]) News items and notices in the Newsletter may be freely used elsewhere unless otherwise stated, al- Events calendar Reviews Editor though attribution is requested when reproducing Updates and corrections to Professor D. 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Society and a long-standing member Professor Simon Tavaré, the current LMS of the London Mathematical Society, President, said ‘Nigel Hitchin is of one serving as its President from 1994-1996. of the most influential geometers of our He was also awarded the London Math- time. The impact of his work in differen- ematical Society’s Pólya Prize in 2002. He tial and algebraic geometry is immense gave a keynote talk at the launch of the and has stimulated development in a Society’s 150th Anniversary celebrations wide variety of areas