NEWSLETTER No. 461 September 2016 COUNCIL FOR THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES EU REFERENDUM STATEMENT ollowing the results of the UK Referendum • Currently all EU arrangements remain in force Fon membership of the EU, the Council for the as the UK has not yet left the EU and current Mathematical Sciences (CMS) takes the following arrangements are being kept in place during view: any transition phase eg access to student loans • The focus will remain on collaboration in the for EU students will continue for those in mathematical sciences as currently exists. receipt of such loans and for those currently • All academic/research/professional mathemati- applying for a loan. cal societies will continue to work with their • Whatever the final arrangements, the aim will counterparts in other countries as closely be to sustain collaboration in the mathemati- and respectfully as possible, regardless of the cal sciences with EU and international partners political arrangements in place. on an equally open and reciprocal basis. LMS HONORARY MEMBERS 2016 LMS Honorary Members for 2016: Professor Idun Reiten and Professor Maxim Kontsevich; see text on page 3 SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS • 15 September: Midlands Regional Meeting, • 11 November: Graduate Student Meeting, London Birmingham page 7 • 11 November: Annual General Meeting, London • 21 September: Popular Lectures, Birmingham page 28 • 20 December: SW & South Wales Regional Meeting, Bath • 27 October: Joint Meeting with the RSS and • 24 February 2017: Mary Cartwright Lecture, London Fisher Memorial Trust, London page 9 • 3–7 April 2017: LMS Society Meeting at BMC, Surrey NEWSLETTER ONLINE: newsletter.lms.ac.uk @LondMathSoc LMS NEWSLETTER http://newsletter.lms.ac.uk Contents No. 461 September 2016 20 22 Awards News Cecil King Travel Scholarship 2016.............17 Australian Mathematical Society...............36 EMS Prizes 2016..........................................16 BSHM News..................................................25 LMS Undergraduate Research Council for the Mathematical Sciences 2 Bursaries 2016...........................................14 EU Referendum statement.......................1 Simon Donaldson Awarded European News............................................24 Honoris Causa............................................3 Geoffrey Shephard......................................26 Stephen Smale Prize...................................16 Mathematics Policy Round-Up...................22 Mathematics Remains Top A-Level Calendar of Events 46 Subject......................................................18 LMS Items New Gresham College Professor.................17 Annual Subscription 2016-17.....................4 Parliamentary Links Day 2016.....................20 Council Diary................................................10 Sublime Symmetry........................................18 Elections 2016..............................................6 Records of Proceedings Honorary Members 2016............................1 Northern Regional Meeting.......................31 Open House 2016........................................10 Undergraduates, PGs & ECRs News.............12 Reports LMS Meetings 7ECM Panel Session....................................27 BCS-FACS Evening Seminar.........................8 DMV and the LMS informal meeting..........26 Joint Meeting with the RSS IMI Undergraduate Research and Fisher Memorial Trust........................9 Internship Programme.. ...........................34 Midlands Regional Meeting LMS Hardy Lecturer Jacob Lurie and Workshop...........................................7 at the University of Leicester...................33 Popular Lectures..........................................28 Northern Regional Meeting.......................30 Prospects in Mathematics Meeting............11 Popular Lectures 2016.................................29 Scottish Partial Differential Meetings Equations Colloquium..............................32 Directions in Computability Theory...........38 Mathematics in the Regions and Nations...37 Reviews Maths Fest 2016...........................................37 Letters to the Editor....................................43 One Day Function Theory Meeting...........38 Mathematical Mindsets...............................41 Random Matrix Theory Brunel–Bielefeld Mathematics in Ancient Egypt...................40 Workshop.................................................35 Visits Sheffield Probability Day............................37 Smolyanov, Oleg...........................................39 Structure of Operator Algebras INI...........39 Velcic, Igor.....................................................39 [email protected] No. 461 September 2016 LMS HONORARY MEMBERS 2016 (continued from page 1) The London Mathematical Society has a large part of the language and context elected Professor Idun Reiten, of the for current work in this field. Norwegian University of Science and Tech- The LMS has also elected Professor Maxim nology (NTNU) in Trondheim, to Honorary Kontsevich, of the Institut des Hautes Membership of the Society. Professor Reiten Études Scientifiques, to Honorary Member- is a world-leading mathematician whose ship of the Society. Professor Kontsevich work has revolutionized the representation has made fundamental contributions to theory of finite dimensional algebras. The many areas of mathematics, primarily in fundamental notions she has introduced, geometry and topology using ideas from and important results she has proved, form theoretical and mathematical physics. SIMON DONALDSON AWARDED DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA Professor Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS, permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University 3 (US) and Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London (United Kingdom), will be awarded the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa by Uni- versidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). The ceremony will take place on 20 January 2017 at 12:00 in the Aula Miguel de Guzmán of the Faculty of Mathematics of Universidad Complutense de Madrid. There will also be a Colloquium on 19 January 2017 at 13:00 at the Faculty of Mathematics. For further information visit the website at www.ucm.es/geometria_topologia or contact Vicente Muñoz ([email protected]). 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. 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