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SOCIETY MEETINGS AND EVENTS 2017

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• 10November:GraduateStudentMeeting,London

• 10November:AnnualGeneralMeeting,London

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SIR ANDREW WILES AWARDED COPLEY MEDALThe London Mathematical Society (LMS) con-gratulates Sir Andrew Wiles KBE FRS on hisaward of the Royal Society CopleyMedal, theworld's oldest scientific prize. He receives theaward for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem andjoinsalistofwinnersincludingCharlesDarwin,HumphreyDavyandAlbertEinstein.SirAndrew

was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2016 andwasan LMS JuniorWhiteheadPrizewinner in1988.TheCopleyMedalwasfirst awarded in 1731bytheRoyalSociety,170yearsbeforethefirstNobel Prize, and is awarded for outstandingachievementsinscientificresearch.

PROFESSOR ALISON ETHERIDGE RECEIVES OBE IN BIRTHDAY HONOURSTheLondonMathematicalSociety(LMS)extendsitswarmestcongratulationstoLMSmemberProfessorAlisonEtheridgeFRS,whohasbeenawardedanOBEintheQueen’sBirthdayHonours.ProfessorEtheridgeisProfessorofProbabilityattheUniversityofOxfordwheresheholdsajointappoint-mentintheDepartmentsofMathematicsandStatis-ticsandaFellowshipatMagdalenCollege.SheisalsoAssociate Head of theMathematical, Physical andLifeSciences(MPLS)Division.ProfessorEtheridgewaselectedasaFellowoftheRoyalSociety(FRS)in2015.ProfessorEtheridgecompletedherBA inMath-ematics at New College in 1985. After a year asaresearchstudent inOxford, shewenttoMcGillUniversity before returning to New College in1987.ShethenworkedinCambridge,Edinburgh,Berkeley and QMUL before returning to Oxfordoncemorein1997.

Her research is largely interdisciplinary and canbedividedintothethreeinterconnectedareasofinfinitedimensionalstochasticanalysis,mathemati-calecologyandmathematicalpopulationgenetics.As well as her research contributions

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AwardsBirthdayHonours..............................................CollingwoodMemorialPrize............................CopleyMedal2017...........................................Grattan-GuinnessArchivalResearchTravelGrant....................................................

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LMS ItemsARefreshedLMSNewsletter...........................CallforHolgateSessionLeaders......................Council Diary.....................................................Editor's Note.....................................................LMSPrizes..........................................................

LMS MeetingsBCS-FACS Meeting............................................AitkenUKLectureTour2017–HinkeOsinga..................................................

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MeetingsAlgebraicStructuresinPhysicsandGeometry.................................................

AsymptoticsforStochasticDynamicalSystems.........................................

BCME2018.........................................................BritishAlgebraicGeometry...............................BritishLogicColloquium...................................British Science Festival 2017............................British TopologyMeeting................................DiophantineProblems......................................ForminArt,Toys,andGames..........................Function TheoryMeeting................................GenerativeModels............................................

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Commemorating a Curious Conversation.....EuropeanNews.................................................Mathematics Policy Round-Up.......................Royal Spanish Mathematical Society............InstitutMittag-LefflerSummerSchool............

ObituaryFairthorne, Simon.............................................

Record of ProceedingsNorthernRegionalMeeting2017....................

ReportsLMS Invited Lectures 2017..............................LMS Northern Regional Meeting...................NorthBritishMathematicalPhysicsSeminar.........................................................

Reviews Brilliant Geometry Exhibition.........................Summing it Up.................................................TheJoyofSET...................................................

VisitsBogley, William.................................................Koivusalo,Henna..............................................Prohl,Andreas...................................................Šemrl, Peter.......................................................

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Professor Etheridge has devoted time tothe benefit of the wider mathematicscommunity. She is a member and Presi-dent-Elect of the Institute ofMathemati-calStatistics (IMS),has servedon theLMSCouncil,andisaFellowoftheInstituteofMathematics and its Applications (IMA).Professor Etheridge provided valuableservice in both the RAE2008 and theREF2014 as a sub-panel member. She hasalso served on a number of LMS commit-tees,inparticulartheLMSResearchPolicy

Committee, and other programmes overthe years. Professor Etheridge is involvedwith theEPSRC,where she is currentlyanappointedmemberoftheEPSRCStrategicAdvisoryNetwork(SAN)andhaspreviouslyservedontheEPSRCMathematicsStrategicAdvisoryTeam(SAT).Professor Simon Tavaré, LMS President,said: ‘This is a fitting tribute to theenormous contributions Alison has madetothemathematicalcommunityintheUK’.

sors Voisin andKollár have been awardedthe Prize for their ‘remarkable results inmany central areas of algebraic geometry,whichhavetransformedthefieldandledtothesolutionoflong-standingproblemsthat

The London Mathematical Society (LMS)congratulatesLMSHonoraryMemberClaire Voisin, Professor and Chair in AlgebraicGeometry, Collège de France, who is thejointwinneroftheShawPrizeintheMath-ematical Sciences. Professor Voisin sharesthe prizewith János Kollár, Professor, De-partment of Mathematics, Princeton Uni-versity.This international award honours indi-viduals who are currently active in theirrespective fields and who have recentlyachieved distinguished and significantadvances, who have made outstandingcontributions in academic and scientificresearch or applications, or who in otherdomains have achieved excellence. Profes-

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COLLINGWOOD MEMORIAL PRIZEThe 2017 Collingwood Memorial Prizehas been awarded to Jonathan Owen,JosephineButlerCollege,DurhamUniversi-ty.TheCollingwoodMemorialPrize,estab-lishedinmemoryofSirEdwardCollingwood

FRS,PresidentoftheLondonMathematicalSociety 1969-1970, is awarded to a final-yearmathematicsstudentattheUniversityof Durham who intends to continue to ahigherdegreeinmathematics.

Honours and Awards, LMS Items

hadappearedoutofreach’.The Shaw Prize is an annual award firstpresented by the Shaw Prize Foundationin2004.Establishedin2002inHongKong,ithonourspeopleworking in thefieldsof

astronomy, life science and medicine, andmathematical sciences. The 2017 ShawPrizesareworthUS$1.2m.Further information isavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/y7eq6xwa.

EDITOR’S NOTE

A REFRESHED LMS NEWSLETTERLaterthisyearwe'llfindanew-lookNews-letter in our mailboxes. The refreshedNewsletter will not only have a new ap-pearance, but will include mathematicalfeaturearticlesaswellasothernewtypesof content. We'll also see a change inthefrequencywereceivetheNewsletter,withanew issueappearingevery secondmonth.The refresh brings new opportuni-

ties for members, and the mathematicalcommunity as awhole, tobe involved intheSociety.Wewarmlywelcomecontribu-tionstotheNewsletterfromallmembers,aswellasnon-members,andlookforwardtoworkingwithasmanymathematiciansas possible in bringing together eachissue.

IainMoffattIncomingEditor-in-Chief

WiththisissueIfinishmytermasEditoroftheLMS Newsletter.IwouldliketothankCouncil forgivingme thiswonderfulop-portunity, which I have enjoyed hugely,and to expressmygratitude to everyonewho has contributed, and especially tothe meetings editors, Stephen Huggett,Robert Wilson and Iain Stewart, andreviews editors Colva Roney-Dougal andDavid Singerman. Katherine Wright andher predecessors have always done awonderful job in producing an immac-ulately-presented Newsletter. But veryspecial thanks are due to Susan Oakes,

who throughoutmy editorship has donemost of the editorial work, suggesting,soliciting and editing articles, remindingme of deadlines, and generally doing allthe hard work. Susan's contribution tothe Newsletter over the last few yearshasbeenimmense,andIamprivilegedtohaveworkedwithher.Like other LMS members, I am nowlookingforwardtothenewlyredesignedNewsletterwithgreatanticipation, and Iamconfidentofitssuccessundertheneweditorialteam.

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William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics 2018

The Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences of City University of Hong Kong is inviting nominations of candidates for the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics, an international award.

The Prize recognizes outstanding mathematical contributions that have had a direct and fundamental impact on scientific, business, financial, and engineering applications.It will be awarded to a single person for a single contribution or for a body of related contributions of his/her research or for his/her lifetime achievement. The Prize is presented every two years and the amount of the award is US$100,000.

Nomination is open to everyone. Nominations should not be disclosed to the nominees and self-nominations will not be accepted. A nomination should include a covering letter with justifications, the CV of the nominee, and two supporting letters. Nominations should be submitted to:Selection Committeec/o Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical SciencesCity University of Hong KongTat Chee AvenueKowloonHong KongOr by email to: [email protected] for nominations: 30 September 2017

The recipient of the Prize will be announced at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics 2018 to be held in summer 2018. The Prize Laureate is expected to attend the award ceremony and to present a lecture at the conference.

The Prize was set up in 2008 in honor of Mr William Benter for his dedication and generous support to the enhancement of the University’s strength in mathematics. The inaugural winner in 2010 was George C Papanicolaou (Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University), and the 2012 Prize went to James D Murray (Senior Scholar, Princeton University; Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford; and Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington), the winner in 2014 was Vladimir Rokhlin (Professor of Mathematics and Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science at Yale University). The winner in 2016 was Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California (Los Angeles).The Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences was established in 1995 with the aim of supporting world-class research in applied mathematics and in computational mathematics. As a leading research centre in the Asia-Pacific region, its basic objective is to strive for excellence in applied mathematical sciences. For more information about the Prize and the Centre, please visit http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lbj/

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LMS PRIZES 2017Thewinnersof theLMSPrizes for2017wereannouncedat theSocietymeetingonFriday30June2017.TheSocietyextendsitscongratulationstothesewinnersandthankstoallthenominators,refereesandmembersofthePrizesCommitteefortheircontributionstotheCom-mittee’sworkthisyear.

PROFESSOR PETER CAMERON, oftheUniversity of St Andrews,isawardedaSenior Whitehead Prizeforhisexceptionalresearchcontributionsacrosscombinatoricsandgrouptheory.Hisfertile imaginationandencourage-mentofothershavesparkedactivityinmanyfields.

PROFESSOR JOHN ROBERT KING, of the University of Nottingham, isawardedaNaylor Prize and LectureshipforhisprofoundcontributionstothetheoryofnonlinearPDEsandappliedmathematicalmodelling.

PROFESSOR ALEX WILKIE, FRS,oftheUniversity of Oxford and Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester,isawardedthePólya Prizeforhisprofoundcontributionstomodel theoryandto itsconnectionswithrealanalyticgeometry.

KEVIN COSTELLO, of the Perimeter Institute, Canada, is awarded aBerwick Prizeforhispaper'Thepartitionfunctionofatopologicalfieldtheory',publishedintheJournal of Topologyin2009,whichcharacterizesthefunctionastheuniquesolutionofamasterequationinaFockspace.

PROFESSOR ALISON ETHERIDGE, FRS, oftheUniversity of Oxford,isawardedaSenior Anne Bennett Prizeinrecognitionofheroutstandingresearchonmeasure-valuedstochasticprocessesandapplicationstopopulationbiology;andforherimpressiveleadershipandservicetotheprofession.

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DR JACK THORNE, oftheUniversity of Cambridge,isawardedaWhitehead Prize for his contributions to number theory, and in particular to theLanglandsprogram.

DR ASHLEY MONTANARO, of the University of Bristol, is awarded aWhitehead Prize for his outstandingand strikinglydiverse contributionsacrossthefieldofquantumcomputationandquantuminformationtheory.

DR OSCAR RANDAL-WILLIAMS, oftheUniversity of Cambridge,isawardedaWhitehead Prizeforhiscontributionstoalgebraictopologyandinpar-ticularthestudyofmodulispacesofmanifolds.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL WEMYSS, oftheUniversity of Glasgow,isawardedaWhitehead Prizefortheprofoundapplicationsofalgebraicandhomologi-caltechniquestoalgebraicgeometry.

DR JULIA GOG, oftheUniversity of Cambridge,isawardedaWhitehead Prizeforherwide-rangingcontributionstothemathematicalunderstand-ingofdiseasedynamics,particularlyinfluenza,basedonbothmathemati-calmasteryandprofoundbiologicalinsight,gainedfromherlong-stand-ingcollaborationswithimmunologistsandepidemiologists.

DR ANDRÁS MÁTHÉ, oftheUniversity of Warwick,isawardedaWhitehead Prizeforhisoriginalinsightsintodeepproblemsfromgeometricmeasuretheory,combinatoricsandrealanalysis.


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New Zealand Mathematical Society

LMS – NZMS AITKEN UK LECTURE TOUR 2017The Society is delighted to announce that the 2017 LMS-NZMS Aitken Lec-turer is Professor Hinke Osinga FRSNZ (University of Auckland).

Hinke Osinga, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Univer-sity of Auckland in New Zealand, is the fourth Aitken Lecturer to visit the UK. She is an expert in dynamical systems and its applications. Her publications, illustrations, animations and outreach activities have made her famous worldwide in the mathematics and arts communities.

In October 2017, Professor Osinga will return to the UK for the second Aitken Lecture Tour. She will visit Bristol, Kent, Newcastle and Warwick.

She will give lectures on “Chaos and wild chaos in Lorenz-type systems,” “The art of computing global manifolds,” and “Shaken but not stirred: Using mathematics in earthquakes.”

The Aitken Lectureship scheme is part of Forder-Aitken Lectureship exchange, which is a collab-oration between the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society. Each Society invites an eminent mathematician from the other country to give lectures at different universities around the country.

The Aitken Lectureship, named after Professor A. Aitken - one of New Zealand’s great mathema-ticians, is a Lecture Tour around the UK undertaken by a mathematician from New Zealand. The Forder Lectureship, named after Professor H. G. Forder (formerly of the University of Auckland and a benefactor of the London Mathematical Society) is a Lecture Tour around New Zealand under-taken by a mathematician from the UK. For further details about the Aitken Lectureship, please visit https://www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectures/forder-and-aitken-lectureship#Aitken


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LMS POPULAR LECTURES 2017BIRMINGHAM (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 20 September at 18:30

David Tong (University of Cambridge)The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in MathematicsFor centuries there has been a close relationship between mathematics and theoretical physics. For the most part, this involved physicists gleefully using ideas previously developed by mathematicians. In the past few decades, that relationship has taken a surprising twist: in their quest to understand Nature, physicists have developed new tools, such as quantum fi eld theory and string theory, which are providing insight into questions in pure mathematics

Jason Lotay (University College London)Adventures in the 7th Dimension

In 7 dimensions there exist special shapes that may help us unlock the mysteries of the universe. Looking for this unique geometry is challenging, but nature holds a possible solution (specifi cally, bubbles and thermodynamics). This lecture will take us on a mathematical journey across multiple dimensions, exploring their role in art, science and popular culture.

Commences at 6.30 pm, refreshments at 7.30 pm, ends at 9.00 pm. Admission is free, with ticket. Register by Thursday 14th September.

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LMS COUNCIL DIARY8 May 2017: A personal view

Council’s new agenda format, aimed atprioritizing strategic discussions, seemstohavebeen a success.After brief pre-liminaries, the May meeting beganwith the Publications Secretary givinga presentation to Council on strategicaspects of thework of the PublicationsCommittee.Thiswas followedbyapro-ductive discussion of a key question:whatisthepurposeoftheLMS’spublica-tionactivity?Councilexploredwhetherthe traditional answers of dissemina-tion of mathematics and income gen-eration could perhaps be reframed intermsof service: toauthors, to readers,to those mathematicians who benefitfromtheconferencesandotherresearchgrant schemes financed by publicationproceeds, to the wider society throughoutreachandadvocacy.The Society puts all surplus proceedsfromitspublicationsbackintothemath-ematical sciences. At present, roughlytwo-thirds of the Society’s income isgenerated by publications, and hencethe LMS’s ability to support its variousgrant schemes is heavily dependent onthe health of this income stream. ThePublications Secretary therefore askedCouncil to considerwhat steer itwouldliketogivethePublicationsCommittee.Should we think in terms of leadershipas well as service? What should theoverall balance of the Society’s pub-lication portfolio be? Are we beingambitious enough? Should the Societylook to grow its publications activity?WhatotherkindsofworkcanCouncildoto support publications activity? Aftera chance to reflect on the informationpresented at this meeting, Council willdiscuss thematter further and give therequested response to the PublicationsCommitteeatalatermeeting.Vice-PresidentKenBrownthengavean

updateonbehalfoftheResearchPolicyCommittee.TheCommitteecontinuesitsefforts to monitor the people pipelinein UK mathematics, and is movingforwardwith its census of postdoctoralfellows and research assistants in theUK.Further,theCouncil forMathemati-cal Sciences (CMS)will bemeetingwithEPSRC to compare notes on the resultsoftheirindependentsurveysofDoctoralTrainingPartnershipgrantallocationforthe mathematical sciences, in advanceof the next Mathematical SciencesStrategicAdvisoryTeaminJune.Itwasalso noted that the EPSRC’s KnowledgeExchange Review had issued an opencall for responses, and the Committeewould be developing a short documenttohighlightimportantnewapplicationsofpuremathematicstothewiderworld.Council members were encouraged tosubmit any suggestions for this to SamHowison. Also noted was the fact thatthe two previous calls to the GlobalChallenges Research Fund, focused onDigital Technologies and HealthcareTechnologies, had been highly unsuit-ableforthemathematicalsciences,thusexcluding the mathematical sciencesfrom accessing this source of funding.CMS has offered to provide help indesigning future calls to make thesemore amenable to the mathematicalsciences.Council moved on to agree terms ofreference in anew standardised formatfor Early Career Research Committee,Research Grants Committee, ResearchPolicy Committee, Society Lectures andMeetings Committee and Women inMathematicsCommittee.The day ended with one of theTrustees’moreenjoyabletasks:agreeingthisyear’sprizewinners(seepages6–7).

TaraBrendle

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COMMEMORATING A CURIOUS CONVERSATION

On Sunday 11 June 2017 I had thegreat pleasure of representing theLondonMathematicalSocietyatthe‘unveiling’ of a plaque commemo-ratingG.H. Hardy’s visit to SrinivasaRamanujan at a nursing home inPutney–theoccasionofthefamoustaxi-cab conversation. As Hardyhimselfrecalled:

He [Ramanujan] could remember theidiosyncrasies of numbers in an almostuncannyway.ItwasLittlewoodwhosaidthateverypositiveintegerwasoneofRa-manujan’spersonal friends. I remembergoingtoseehimoncewhenhewaslyingillinPutney.Ihadriddenintaxi-cabNo.1729, and remarked that the numberseemedtomeratheradullone,andthatIhopedthatitwasnotanunfavourableomen.“No,”hereplied,“it isavery interestingnumber;itisthesmallestnumberexpressibleasasumoftwocubesintwodifferentways.”*

Thenursinghomewasrestoredtoaprivatehouse sometime in the 1920s, andwewerewarmly welcomed by the current ownerDeborah Gauld and her family, several ofwhom had come over from Denmark espe-cially for the occasion. After a delicious tea,

completewithIndiandelicacies, inDeborah’sbeautiful garden,wemoved to the front ofthehouse,glassescharged,fortheceremony.Simon Singh, the originator of the project,opened proceedings before handing overtoSarahHart.Sarah,whohadhelpedSimonbringtheprojecttofruitionwithfundingfromthe British Society for the History of Math-ematics (BSHM), explained that it was part

of the Society’s mission to raiseawarenessofmathematicsanditshistory, and that the BSHMwasdelighted to be supporting thisprojectandcommemoratingthe“1729”conversationinthisway.IthenconcludedwithafewwordsaboutHardyandRamanujanandtheirconnectionwiththeLondonMathematical Society. Havingtoasted Hardy, Ramanujan andmathematics, we returned tothegardenforcelebratory‘1729’cakeandmorechampagne.

JuneBarrow-Green

*123+13=103+93=1729.G.H.Hardy‘TheIndianmathematicianRamanujan’The American Mathematical Monthly44(1937),137-155(p.147).

PlaquecommemoratingHardy’svisittoRamanujanatanursinghomeinPutney

DeborahGauld,SimonSingh,SarahHartandJuneBarrow-Greenonthestepsof2ColinetteRoad,Putney


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News

MATHEMATICS POLICY ROUND-UPJuly 2017

RESEARCH

The role of EU funding in UK research and innovationA new report jointly commissioned fromTechnopolisGroupbytheUK’sfournationalacademies–theAcademyofMedicalSciences,the British Academy, the Royal Academy ofEngineeringand theRoyal Society – revealsexactlywhereEUfundinggoes,whatkindofactivities it supports andwhat other invest-mentitattracts.Moreinformationisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/y8b6q7fm.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Teacher retention in English secondary schoolsThe National Foundation for EducationalResearch(NFER)updateTeacher retentionby subjectisthefirstpublicationinaseriesthatformsamajornewresearchproject-fundedby the Nuffield Foundation - ‘to gain adeeperunderstandingofthedynamicswithintheteacherworkforceinEngland’.Itisalsooneofthefirstpiecesofresearchtoexploredifferencesinteacherretentionratesin English secondary schools by the subjecttheyteach.

Keyfindings:• Ratesofearly-careerteachersinscience,mathematicsandlanguagesleavingtheprofessionareparticularlyhigh.

• Highleavingratesofscienceandmodernforeignlanguagesteachers,andshort-fallsinthenumberofentriestoteachertraininginthesesubjectscomparedtotheGovernment’starget,maymakeitdifficultfortheGovernmenttoachieveitsaimfor90percentofstudentstobeenteredforGCSEsinEBaccsubjects.

• Theamountofcurriculumtimespentonscienceandlanguageshasnotincreasedsince2011.Thelackofgrowthincurricu-lumtimecouldbeduetoreducedteachersupplyconstrainingschoolsfromexpand-ingprovisioninthesesubjects.

• Theamountofcurriculumtimefortech-nologysubjectshasfallendramaticallysince2011.Theleavingratefortechnologyteachersishigherthanaverage,whichmightbedrivenbyschools’reduceddemandforteachersaswellasteachers’owncareerdecisions.Thereportisavailableathttp://tinyurl.com/y9bfjltn.

DrJohnJohnstonJointPromotionofMathematics

EUROPEAN NEWSEuropean Industrial Doctoral ProgramAEuropean industrialdoctoralprogram (EID)onReduced Order Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Coupled Systems has beenapprovedwithintheHorizon2020framework.Themainobjectiveofthisprogramme,drivenbyindustrialapplications,istolifttheapplica-tionofthesetechniquestoanewlevelofqualityandtotrainthenextgenerationofresearchersinthisapproach.Fundsareoftheorderof€2.8million.Partnersarefromtheacademicsectorare TU Berlin/MATHEON (consortium leader),HUBerlin,U.Bremen,FAUErlangen-Nürnberg,INRIA Paris, U. Linz, Polytechnico di Milano,

Technological Institute of Industrial Math-ematics (ITMATI) Santiago, SISSA Trieste, BUWuppertal,FAUErlangen-Nürnberg,aswellas11industrialpartnersfromsevencountriesandtheEuropeanNetworkEU-MATHS-IN.

Open Science Metrics The EU Commission has recently published areportonOpenScienceMetrics:Next-genera-tion metrics: Responsible metrics and evalua-tion for open science.Thereportcanbeseenathttp://tinyurl.com/y9fer7z5.

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GRATTAN-GUINNESS ARCHIVAL RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTCall for Applications

Theestateof the lateProfessor IvorGrattan-Guinnesshasestablishedalimitednumberofcareerdevelopmentgrantstoassistscholarsintheearlystagesoftheirresearchcareersinthefieldsofthehistoryandphilosophyofmath-ematicsand logicaswellas in thehistoryofmathematicseducationanditsbearingoncon-temporaryproblems.Grattan-Guinness Archival Research TravelGrantsareopentodoctoralstudentsorscholarswithnomore than six yearsofpost-doctoralresearch in the history and/or philosophy ofmathematics and/or logic and/or mathemat-icseducation.Grantswillbemadespecificallytoenabletravelforresearchatanarchiveofthe recipient’s choice.Grantsareexpectedto

contributeto,butnotfullycover,thetotalcostoftheproposedresearchproject.Indeed,addi-tionalfundingfromothersourcesishighlyrec-ommended,asthisgrantis intendedtoassistwithtravelexpenses,ratherthantosubsidizearesearchprojectinitsentirety.Thereforesub-missionofresearchproposalstootherfundingagenciesdoesnotaffecttheireligibilityforaGrattan-GuinnessGrant.No grant will exceed US$3,000. Proposalsmust be submitted electronically to the ad-ministrators at [email protected] by 31 December 2017. Applicants will be informedof the outcome of their application by 15February2018.Forfurthervisitthewebsiteathttp://tinyurl.com/y94xnhph.

SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE INSTITUT MITTAG-LEFFLERCall for Proposals

TheEuropeanWomeninMathematics(EWM)andtheEuropeanMathematicalSociety(EMS)arepleasedtoinviteproposalsforaoneweeksummerschoolattheInstitutMittag-LefflerinStockholminsummer2018.Aspecialfeatureof the summer school is that there will bea much larger than usual involvement bywomen.Itisexpectedthatmostorallofthe

organisingcommittee,atleasthalfthepartici-pants,andifpossiblethelecturers,shouldbefemale.Further details can be found on theEWM website www.europeanwomeninmaths.org under ‘News’. In case of difficulty pleasecontactUlrikeTillmann([email protected]).Thedeadlineforproposalsis30 July 2017.

year, Fields medallist Cedric Villani is now amemberoftheFrenchNationalAssembly.Herepresents the Essonne 5th constituency forthe centristpoliticalpartyEn Marche!of thenewly-elected French president EmmanuelMacron.

EMS NewsletterThe June issue of the EMS Newsletter is nowavailable at http://tinyurl.com/yam5phmq.Among many interesting items are an articlebyHenriDarmononAndrewWiles'MarvellousProof (a transcript of the author's Abel Prizelecture in2016),onebyKarineChemlaonThe

Diversity of Mathematical Cultureswithaparticu-larfocusonsomeearlyChinesemathematics,thefascinating story of the commemorative benchsculpture in Kraków representing Banach andNikodymdeepinmathematicalconversation,anobituary articleon Ludwig Fadeev, anda livelyarticlebyChristianKrattenthaleronresonancesofMathematics and Music–includingaproofofRamanujan's'mostbeautiful'theoremaswellasananalysisofaspectsofSchubert'sSonatainAmajor,D959.Allthisandmuchmore,enoughtokeepanyreaderwelloccupiedoverthesummer.

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BATH’S INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL INNOVATION: MODEL EVOLUTION

How can universities better release thepotential that mathematics holds as an ‘un-derpinningtechnology’?Howcanweremovethecommonobstaclesthathindercollabora-tions with external organisations? How dointerdisciplinary projects and collaborationsthemselvesbenefitmathematicsandstatistics?Thesequestionsareparticularlypertinentatthemomentduetothereviewofknowledgeexchange in the mathematical sciencescurrently being undertaken by EPSRC andInnovateUK,andchairedbyPhilipBond(seehttp://tinyurl.com/kfyc2yc).Bathiswidelyknownforindustrialengage-ment in the mathematical sciences and theestablishmentoftheBathInstituteforMath-ematical Innovation (IMI) nearly two yearsagoisthelatestdevelopmentinourthinking.Through IMI the university is developing anewmodel for interdisciplinaryandbusinesscollaborations centred on the mathematicalsciences.IMI provides a coherent framework toorganise three strands of activities: addi-tional support for mathematical sciencesresearch, interdisciplinary research collabora-tionsinvolvingmathematicsandstatistics,andexternal consultancywork.Detailsofourac-tivitiescanbefoundathttp://www.bath.ac.uk/imi/.

As part of our support for mathematicalresearch, for example,wematch-fund LMSUndergraduate Research Bursaries and wefund additional students, making a cohortofaround20forwhomwecanthendesignaprogrammeofadditionalactivitiesandtrans-ferable skills training.New interdisciplinaryresearch collaborations are supported byourinternalsecondmentsschemewhichhasbeenenthusiasticallytakenupbyacademicstaff from a wide variety of departments(including, by way of example, Economics,Health,Management,MechanicalEngineer-ing,Physics,andPsychology)acrosstheuni-versity. These secondments typically focuson a ‘pump priming’ activity, initiating aninnovative research ideawith thepotentialtoattractfutureresearchfunding.IMIisalsoproudtoleadtheMI-NET(Math-ematics for Industry Network, see https://mi-network.org/)project,anEUCOSTActionchaired by Joanna Jordan that promotescollaborationin,andthebenefitsof,indus-trial mathematics. MI-NET runs industrialworkshops, training weeks, study groupsand short-term scientific exchange visitsbetweenacademicandindustrialpartners.IMI’scapacitytocarryoutconsultancyworkfor external partners is significantly rein-forcedbyourteamofCommercialResearch

Associates; PhD-qualified researchstaff who work on a wide varietyof short-term projects, typicallylasting from one to threemonths,withaflexibilitythatenablesustorespond quickly to business needsand timescales. Recent collabora-tions include work with organisa-tions in the agri-food, aerospace,energy,health,insurance,andretailsectors, and from local SMEs toglobal development agencies suchasUNICEF.Our experienceover the last twoyears has been that initial shortIMIstaffandInternalSecondees

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15BCME 9 2018 Invitation to contribute – deadline 31 July 2017

LMS members are invited to contribute tothe 9th British Congress of MathematicsEducation (BCME 9) http://www.bcme.org.uk/,tobeheldattheUniversityofWarwickfrom3to6April2018.BCME is a celebration of mathematicseducation attracting delegates from everyphase(earlyyearsthroughtouniversity)andaspect(teachingthroughtoresearch,policyand public engagement). It takes placeevery four years under the auspices of theJoint Mathematical Council of the UnitedKingdom(JMC).Contributions can take the form ofworkshop, talk, demonstration, discussiongroup or research presentation; aimed atpractitioners concerned with Early YearsFoundationStage(EYFS),KeyStage1(KS1),KS2, KS3, KS4, post-16, university, initialteacher education (ITE) or teacher profes-sional development (CPD) for 30, 60 or 90minutes. Sessions should not be used toadvertisecommercialwares,butcommercialwaresmightbeusedtoillustrateaparticu-

lar teaching approach. Ifyour session is linked witha particular JMC participating body, pleaseindicatethiswhenapplying.Thedraftprogramme,which is subject tochange,canbefoundatwww.bcme.org.uk/Programme.Contributions will be scheduled into 60minute(B,C,F,G,J,K)or90minute(A,D,E,H, I) sessions. If youpreferaparticulardayor session, please indicate this on your ap-plication. If your contribution is linked toanother contribution, please indicate thissotheycanbeappropriatelyscheduled:forthoseoffering30minutecontributions,weparticularly encourage you do this so thatrelated contributions can be scheduled inthe same session. Do not worry if you areunable todo so, theprogramme teamwilldo its best to find some suitable way toscheduleyourcontribution.All contributors will be able to shareresources with delegates through thewebsite before the conference andwill be

projectscaneasilyturnintolonger-termresearchcollaborationsastheacademic and industrial partici-pants get a better understandingof eachother and the relationshipbuilds. Having carried out around20 projects since launch, it is clearthatourexperience is contributingtochangingthecultureofhowBathengages with external partners,both in the mathematical sciencesandindeedmorewidelyacrosstheuniversity.The conclusions of the BondReview will no doubt stimulatefurtherdevelopmentsandhelptheentire community tomaximise thefuture opportunities for the mathematicalsciencesintheUK.

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LA REAL SOCIEDAD MATEMÁTICA ESPAÑOLA

The Royal SpanishMathematical Society wasofficially founded in Madrid in 1911, origi-nally with the name “Sociedad Matemáti-ca Española”. Its first president was JoséEchegaray,acivilengineerwhoisbestknownfor havingwon theNobel Prize in Literaturein1904butwhoalsowasProfessorofMath-ematical Physics in the University Central atMadrid (Universidad Complutense deMadridatpresent).Otherpreeminentnamesofpresi-dents of our society include Zoel García deGaldeano, LeonardoTorresQuevedo,or JulioReyPastor.Asof2016,ourSocietyhasaround1,600indi-vidualmembersand100institutionalmembers(such as schools, departments, and researchinstitutes). It has reciprocity agreementswithmany other Spanish, European and Interna-tionalmathematicalsocieties(inparticularwiththeLMS),whichallowitsmemberstojointheseothersocietieswithareducedmembershipfee.TheSocietyitselfisamemberofseveralinter-national mathematical organisations, such astheEMS,theIMU,CIMPAandICIAM.The main tasks of our Society are thepromotionanddisseminationofmathematicsanditsapplications,andfosteringtheresearchandteachinginallmathematicalareasanded-

ucationallevels.Throughitsconferences,meetings, andpublications, the Societytries to serve as a centralreference and meeting point for all of theSpanish mathematical community. The mostimportant scientific event organized by theSocietyisthebiennialCongress,inwhichsome400-500 mathematicians meet to discuss thelatestdevelopmentintheirresearchareas.ThelatestbiennialCongresstookplaceinZaragozain February 2017, and next one will be inSantanderin2019.TheRSMEhasorganizedinthelastfewyearsmanyjointcongresseswithother mathematical societies (AMS, Belgianand Luxemburg, French, Swedish, Italian,Mexican, Brazilian, Argentinian, Portuguese,as well as the other Spanish mathematicalsocieties).Thisisanexcellentwaytofostertheinteraction between the mathematical com-munitiesofSpainandtheseothercountries.TheBulletin of the RSME isaweeklynews-letterwhichisdistributedtoallmemberswiththemost important news of the Society andthe Spanish and International mathemati-cal communities during the previous week.La Gaceta de la RSME is a printed journalpublishedbytheSociety(currentlythreetimes

invited to submit an article based on theircontribution to the BCME proceedings.Researchcontributorswillbeabletoopttohave their article refereed by members ofBSRLM.Pleasenotethatthisisasignificantchangetopreviouspracticewherethepro-ceedingshavebeenpreparedinadvanceofthecongress.Toacceptthisinvitationpleaseofferacon-tributionviatheBCMEwebsite(http://tinyurl.com/ybjrsw82),completingallthenecessaryinformationby31 July 2017.Youwillneedto provide title, description (maximum 100words),detailsaboutthecontribution(type,phase and duration) and any resource orequipment needs, including room layout

(lecturestyle,chairsonly,cabaret(groupsoftables),classroom(rowsoftables)).Ifyouareanewpresenteryouwillbeabletoindicateif youwould like support.Pleasenote thatyouwillbeaskedtoindicateanintentiontoregisterasadelegate.Ifyouhaveanyqueriesorwishtodiscussapossiblecontribution,[email protected]. Whilst we cannot guaranteeaccepting all offers of contributions aswe need to ensure a broad and balancedprogramme,wearelookingfor32contribu-tions at anyone time so youare inwith agoodchance.

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FrontcoverofthelastissueofLaGacetadelaRSME.ItcontainspicturesfromtheRSME-Imaginaryexhibition.

ayear)anddistributedtoallmembers,whereone can find mathematical research articles,biographicalandhistoricalarticles,interviews,bookreviews,problems,andmuchmore.TheSocietyalsoeditstheRevista Matemática Iber-oamericana (http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/journal.php?jrn=RMI), a peer-reviewed scien-tific journal currently published by the EMSPublishingHouse.The José Luis Rubio de Francia Prize is thehighestdistinctionawardedbytheRSME.Itisaddressedtoyoungresearchersinmathemat-icswhoareSpanishorhavedone theirworkinSpain. Itsfirsteditionwas in2004andit isawarded annually. The Prize Vicent Casellesis an annual distinction to young Spanishresearchers whose doctoral work is of highstandard and internationally recognized. Thefirst edition was in 2015, and there are sixawards annually. The RSMEMedals acknowl-edge every year, from 2015, three relevantmathematiciansofSpainfortheircommitment

Posterof theExpositionof thebibliographical legacyofZoelGarcíadeGaldeano,heldatthelibraryofUniversityofZaragoza,duringdaysaroundthelastbiennialcongressoftheRSME.

withourcommunityandcontributions tosci-entificadvance,educationordisseminationofmathematics.RSME isveryconcernedwith thedissemina-tion of mathematics. TheDivulgamat (http://www.divulgamat.net/) website is a virtualcentre for divulgation of Mathematics. TheArbolmat (http://www.arbolmat.com/)websitecontains biographies of many Spanish math-ematicians. TheRSMEhasalsoorganized theSpanish version of the itinerant exhibitionImaginary (https://imaginary.org/). The SocietyisalsoinvolvedwithReal Academia Españolaintherenewalandinsertionofnewmathemati-calwordsinitsdictionaryandwithFundación Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in a program onArtandMathematics.FurtherinformationabouttheRSMEcanbefoundonthewebsitehttp://www.rsme.es.

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LMS INVITED LECTURES 2017 IN NEWCASTLEReport

This year's Invited Lecture Series took placeduring Easter week at Newcastle Universityand drew an audience from far and wide.In addition to mathematicians resident inBritaintherewereparticipantsfromtheUSA,SouthAmerica,SouthAfrica,Indiaandconti-nentalEurope.ThetitleoftheserieswasFunction Theory

by Hilbert Space Methods and the invitedlecturerwasProfessorJimAgler,oftheUni-versity of California at San Diego, who has

himself made seminal contributions to thefield.Heisknownforhisexpositoryskills,andhedulydeliveredawell-judgedandadmira-bly-paced course of eight lectures, targetedatanaudiencecontainingahighproportionof research students.He showedhow someof the classical theory of analytic functionsontheunitdisccanbedevelopedinasimplewaywith the aid of the elementary theoryof bounded linear operators on Hilbertspace;moreover,thisapproachhasthegreat

LMSInvitedLecturerJimAgler GregKneseanalysesvonNeumanninequalities

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RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS AT LMS MEETINGS ORDINARY MEETING, 1 JUNE 2017heldattheUniversityofYorkaspartoftheNorthernRegionalMeetingandWorkshoponVariational Methods in Submanifold Theory.Over45membersandvisitorswerepresentforallorpartofthemeeting.Themeetingbeganat2.00pmwiththeProgrammeSecretary,ProfessorIainA.Stewart,intheChair.Therewere22peopleelectedtomembershipatthisSocietyMeeting:EightpeoplewereelectedtoAssociatemembership:MrOliverCato,MissLauraCope,DrJenniferCreaser,MrCalumProctor,MrSeanSapsford,MrsAzizaSentissi,MrZiyiTangandMrAdamRichardWilson.ThirteenpeoplewereelectedtoOrdinarymembership:MrAlirezaBadaliSarebangholi,DrChristianBick,DrYemonChoi,ProfessorSimonDobson,DrNicolaGambino,MsRoselinGorogodo,DrMarkHagen,DrMarinaKravtsova,DrHolly Krieger,Mr ColinNeve,DrClaudiaNeves,DrDmitriyRumyninandProfessorAnvarShukurov.OnepersonwaselectedtoReciprocitymembership:DrRehanaNaz.ThreememberssignedthebookandwereadmittedtotheSociety.DrIanMcIntoshintroducedalecturegivenbyProfessorFranBurstall(UniversityofBath)onConformal submanifold theory for beginners.DrKatrinLeschkethenintroducedalecturegivenbyProfessorMartaMazzocco(Univer-sityofLoughborough)onColliding holes in Riemann surfaces.Aftertea,ProfessorNiallMacKaythenintroducedtheLewisFryRichardsonLecturegivenbyProfessorDominicJoyce(UniversityofOxford)onWhat is a derived manifold?TheProgrammeSecretary,ProfessorStewart,expressedthethanksoftheSocietytothespeakersandtoIanMcIntoshandKatrinLeschkeforputtingonsuchawonderfulmeeting.Afterwards,thereceptionwasheldintheDepartmentofMathematicsandtheSocietyDinnerwasheldatanearbyrestaurant,Carluccio’s.

advantage that it frequently points to gen-eralizationsoftheclassicalresultstoanalyticfunctionsofseveralcomplexvariables(SCV).Indeed,oftentheproofsoftheSCVtheoremslookidenticaltothoseofthesingle-variableresults,withonlyachangeintheinterpreta-tionofthenotation.Heidentifiedfourtypesofargument,calledmodel formulae, positiv-ity, lurking isometry andduality arguments,whichinconjunctionwithamodestquantityof algebraic ingenuity lead to both thediscoveryandtheproofofawidevarietyofresultsinSCVandoperatortheory.A second course, comprising five lectures,wasdeliveredbyProfessorJohnMcCarthy,ofWashingtonUniversity, St Louis. This coursewas devoted to noncommutative analysis,

that is, the analysis of functions of severalnoncommuting variables. It is a topicwhichhasattracteda lotof interestover thepastten years. Agler and McCarthy have them-selvesmade significant contributions to thearea, and McCarthy showed how the ideasdescribedinAgler's lecturescanbeadaptedtothisrelativelynewfield.Brief (two-lecture) courseswerealsogivenbyDrGregoryKnese,ofWashingtonUniver-sity, St Louis (on vonNeumann inequalities)and Dr Kelly Bickel, of Bucknell University,Lewisburg,Pennsylvania (ontherepresenta-tionofanalyticfunctionsonthebidisc).Therewerealsoatutorialandaproblemsession.

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LMS NORTHERN REGIONAL MEETINGReport

An LMS Northern RegionalMeetingwasheld in themath-ematicsdepartmentat theUni-versityofYorkinJunethisyear.Themeeting took place duringa workshop on Variational Methods in Submanifold Theory,and inkeepingwith the themeof the workshop the talks hadageometricflavour.Around15people attended the workshopfrom institutions across the UKand Europe, and theworkshopattendees were joined byaround40researchersandstudentsfromuni-versitiesacrosstheregionforthemeeting.Themeeting, chaired by Iain Stewart fromDurham, took place on Thursday 1 June at2 pm, and we were delighted to have FranBurstall (Bath), Marta Mazzocco (Loughbor-ough) and Dominic Joyce (Oxford) to speakfor us. Burstall’s talk beganwith a reminderof classical submanifold theory in Euclideangeometry, and how an analogous approachgivesthegoverningequationsandinvariantsfor submanifolds of the conformal n-sphere.MazzoccotoldusaboutwhathappenswhenholescollideinsideRiemannsurfacesandtheconsequencesformodulispacesofrepresenta-tionsofthefundamentalgroupofapuncturedsurface. Joyce rounded off the eventwith atalkonderiveddifferentialgeometry,arela-

tively new area of mathematics pioneeredby Joycewhich aims to applymethods fromalgebraic geometry to difficult problems indifferentialgeometry.Thetalkswerefollowedbyawinereceptionheld in the Topos room at themathematicsdepartment,withattendeesspillingoutsidetodiscuss theenjoyableand interestingtalks inthesunshinebythecampuslake.Theconfer-encedinnerwasalivelyaffairheldatCarluc-cio’sYork,wherewewerejoinedbyLMSrep-resentativesIainStewartandElizabethFisher.Pleasevisittheworkshopwebsiteathttps://tinyurl.com/y8mvwgd5 to view photos fromtheevent,aswellastitlesandabstractsfortheworkshoptalks.

DrKimMooreCambridge

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HOLGATE LECTURES AND WORKSHOPSCALL FOR HOLGATE SESSION LEADERS

The LMS currently has two vacancies for Holgate Session Leaders, and invites applications from those interested in taking part in this scheme.

The Holgate Lectures and Workshops Sessions scheme (named in memory of Philip Holgate, who helped to ensure the success of the LMS Popular Lectures) provides session leaders who are willing to give talks or run workshops on mathematical subjects to groups of students or teachers. The sessions are intended to enrich and enhance mathematical education, looking both within and beyond the curriculum.

Holgate sessions are intended for school- and college-level students, from primary and secondary to A-Level or equivalent (including STEP/AEA). They may also cover adult education. Session leaders are also free to offer sessions to other relevant groups, e.g. teachers of mathematics, to enhance their professional mathematical development.

The local organiser of a session may be a school, a group of schools, or a local branch of a mathematical organisation. Schools will be strongly encouraged to collaborate when hosting sessions. There is no required minimum or maximum attendance for the sessions, and appointees will be free to decide whether to accept or decline a request.

Holgate session leaders do not charge a fee for giving talks, but local organisers are expected to pay travel expenses and subsistence costs, together with any local costs of organising the session. The LMS will pay an annual honorarium to the session leaders.

More information on the scheme and details of current Holgate session leaders can be found here: https://www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectures/holgate-lectures-and-workshops.

If you are interested in applying, please send a short (maximum 2-page) CV and a letter outlining a) what you could offer as a Holgate Session Leader, and b) what you believe the Holgate sessions could offer as an educational experience, to Katherine Wright: [email protected].

Although there is no strict person specifi cation, applicants should have a track record in mathematics education, communicating with people and learning and/or teaching mathematics outside of HE. They may be research-active mathematicians in a university department or be someone mathematically or statistically qualifi ed based outside of academia. Applicants do not need to be members of the LMS.

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NORTH BRITISH MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARReport

The North British Mathematical Physics Seminar (NBMPS) is a series of one-daymeetings supported by an LMS Scheme 3grant. The LMS Scheme 3 grants providemodestfunding,but it isenoughforustorunthreemeetingsperyear,anditishugelybeneficial.Aswellasprovidingawiderangeofinterestingtalksitisaveryeffectivewayto establish and maintain links betweenourgroups,nowfromDurham,Edinburgh,Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Newcastle, Not-tingham andYork. The inauguralmeetingwas held in Edinburgh on 2 March 2002.Fifteen years and fifty meetings later weheld our milestone NBMPS 50 meeting atthe excellent venueofKing'sManor, Yorkon 12May 2017. Over that time we have

heldmostlythree,sometimesfour,one-daymeetingseachyear.OurnetworkhasgrownandthemeetingshaveprovidedmanyPhDstudents with their first opportunity tospeakoutsidetheirowngroup.As usual we had talks from both earlystage and well established researchers,coveringawide rangeof topics inmathe-maticalphysics.MirjamWeilenmann(York)opened the meeting by presenting herrecentworkonunderstandingcausalstruc-turesinclassicalandquantumsystemsusingentropyvectors.Motivatedbyproblems inquantum information theory, Arthur Jaffe(HarvardandvisitingtheNewtonInstitute)presented the pictorial Quon languagewhich is now being applied more widely

ArthurJaffe(Harvard)givinghistalkSome Recent Insights with Pictures.ThephotointhebackgroundwastakenbyArthur

duringaseminarwhenhewasagraduatestudentatPrinceton.

MirjamWeilenmann(York)givinghertalkAnalysis of the Entropy Vector Approach to Distinguish Classical and

Quantum Causal Structures

Theparticipantsenjoyingthecelebratorydinner–somestilldeepindiscussions,othersfindingtimetorelax!

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toderiveandproveresultsinvariousareasofphysicsandmathematics.Wealsoheardfrom Robert Parini (York) about algebro-geometric solutions to two-dimensionalintegrable systems with defects, gener-alising well known soliton solutions. Instring theorywehad twodifferent topics,Lennart Schmidt (Heriot-Watt) explainingthestructureofa solutiondescribingnon-Abelianself-dualstringswhileYang-HuiHe(CityUniversity,London&Oxford) showedhow to obtain bounds on the volume ofSasaki-Einsteinmanifoldsbystudyingprop-ertiesoftoricCalabi-Yaucones.Aswellastheformaltalks,ourmeetingsalways provide ample opportunity for theparticipants to discuss over coffee andlunch,andthismeetingwasnoexception.The speakers were engaging and thisgenerated many interesting discussions

throughout the day. The wide variety oftopicsalsocontributedtothesuccessofthemeeting.Ofcoursewewantedtocelebrateourmilestone,sowehadadinnerafterthemeeting,verymuchenjoyedbythosewhowere there.Wethank theYorkgroupandparticularlythelocalorganiser,EliHawkins,forthememorable50thmeeting.ForfurtherdetailsofNBMPS50,seehttp://www-users.york.ac.uk/~eh555/NBMPS50.html or go to our main NBMPS page athttps://empg.maths.ed.ac.uk/NBMPS/ forfulldetailsofpastmeetings,forannounce-ments of future meetings, or to sign upto ourmailing list. All meetings are opento everyone, not just those within thenetwork.

DouglasSmithDepartmentofMathematicalSciences

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VISIT OF WILLIAM BOGLEY

Professor William A. Bogley (Oregon StateUniversity)willbevisitingtheUKfrom3to23September2017. ProfessorBogleyworksontopological aspects of group theory. Detailsofhistalksduringhisvisitare:• Thursday7September,UniversityofEssex

Shift Dynamics for Cyclically Presented Groups(contactGeraldWilliams:[email protected])

• Wednesday13September,UniversityofSouthamptonAsphericity and Equations over Finite Groups(contactIanLeary:[email protected])

• Friday22September,UniversityofNot-tinghamAlternatives to Asphericity(contactMartinEdjvet:[email protected])Furtherdetailsofthesearrangementsmaybe obtained from Gerald Williams ([email protected]).ThevisitissupportedbyanLMSScheme2grant.

VISIT OF ANDREAS PROHL

Professor Andreas Prohl (full Professorin Numerical Analysis, Institute of Math-ematics, University of Tübingen, Germany)willbevisiting theUKbetween10and22September2017.Hismainresearchinterestsare in finite element methods, both theirtheory and applications including hydro-dynamics (Navier-Stokes equations, in par-ticular),magnetism(eg,theLandau-Lifshitzequation),multi-phaseflows(eg,theCahn-Hilliardequation),liquidcrystals,etc,andinstochasticpartialdifferentialequationsandstochasticcontrol.DuringhisvisitProfessorProhlwilllectureon:• Monday11September,14:00-15:15,UniversityofYork,DepartmentofMath-ematics,Topos(G/N/024)(contactZdzislawBrzezniak:[email protected])

• Thursday14September,12.00-13.00,UniversityofChester,DepartmentofMathematics,RoomTSU102(contactDimitraAntonopoulou:[email protected])


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• Monday18September,15.00-16.00,UniversityofNottingham,SchoolofMathematicalSciences,RoomA17(contactMichaelTretyakov:[email protected])

• Thursday21September,14.00-15.00,UniversityofSussex,DepartmentofMathematics,Room5c11(contactMaxJensen:[email protected])For further details contact MichaelTretyakov([email protected]. uk). The visit is supported by an LMSScheme2grant.

VISIT OF HENNA KOIVUSALODrHennaKoivusalo (University of Vienna)will visit the UK during August 2016supportedbyanLMSScheme2grant. Shewill give lectures at the Universities of StAndrews, Glasgow and Durham as wellas engaging in collaborations at each in-stitution on a broad range of topics. DrKoivusaloisanexcitingandtalentedmath-ematician as well as being an exceptionalspeaker.Herresearchinterestsspanseveraldifferentareas,including:fractalgeometry,probability theory, Diophantine approxi-mation, number theory, cut-and-projectsets, tiling theory and ergodic theory. Shehas an excellent reputation for her abilityto communicate mathematics, both atresearch level and to a general audience.For example, those following recent LMSeventsclosely,mayrememberherverywell-receivedpubliclectureattheLMSNorthernRegional Meeting on Dynamical systems,ergodic theory and applications, hostedby Jonathan Fraser inManchester in June2016. She is also regularly invited to giveseminarsandspeakatinternationalconfer-encesacross thefull rangeofher researchinterests.Dr Koivusalo will visit Jonathan Fraser,who recently returned to his alma materSt Andrews, to work on self-affine setsand dimension theory. Jonathan visited

Dr Koivusalo and Professor Henk Bruinin Vienna in October 2016 and is lookingforward to returning the hospitality! InGlasgow, Dr Koivusalo will visit MichaelWhittakertoworkonrandomsubstitutiontilingsandconnectionstofractalgeometrythrough fractal dual tilings. Dr WhittakerisarecentlyappointedlecturerinGlasgowworking on noncommutative geometry,dynamical systems and operator algebras.Weanticipatethisvisitbeingacatalystforfurther interaction between the groups inGlasgowandStAndrews.Thefinalvisitwillbe to the University of Durham to workwith Jamie Walton and John Hunton onongoingworkonpatterncomplexityofcut-and-project tilings and connections withDiophantineapproximation.Theprecisedatesofthevisitarestillbeingworkedout,but the current estimates arethat Dr Koivusalo will be in Durham theweek of the 7 August, Glasgow theweekofthe14August,andthenStAndrewstheweekofthe21August.GoodluckcatchingHennaat somepointduringhermuchan-ticipatedvisit!

VISIT OF PETER ŠEMRLProfessor Peter Šemrl (University ofLjubljana) who is currently the presidentoftheInternationalLinearAlgebraSocietywill be visiting the University of Readingbetween 30 June and 7 July 2017. Hisarea of research include linear and non-linear preserver problems, geometry ofmatricesandsymmetriesofeffectalgebras.During his visit he will continue researchwith György Pál Gehér on isometries ofGrassmannspaces,andhewillbegivingthefollowingpresentation:Adjacency Preservers at the Pure Math-ematics Seminar,Wednesday 5 July, 16.00-17.00, J.J. Thomson Building, RH LectureTheatre,UniversityofReadingFor further details contact György PálGehér ([email protected] or [email protected]).ThevisitissupportedbyanLMSScheme4ResearchinPairsgrant.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE - WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS

The School of Mathematics, University ofBristol, will host an event from 4 pm onTuesday7Novemberto5pmonWednesday8 November 2017 to encourage femalemathematics students from across the UKto consider continuing their studies toPhDlevel.The event features talks from mathema-ticians working both in Universities andindustry, giving insight into their currentrolesandtheir careers todate. Evenmoreimportantly, there is ample time to talk insmallgroups to theotherparticipantswhoare facing the same decisions, and also tocurrent PhD students who have recentlyfaced the same questions. Speakers willinclude Dr Heather Harrington (Oxford).Some funding is available for travel, andearly registration is encouraged via http://bristol.ac.uk/maths/events/2017/wim-pg-2017.html.

TUTTE CENTENARYA conferencewill take place in Cambridgefrom 10 to 12 July 2017 to celebrate thecentenaryofthebirthofWilliamTutte,whomade remarkable contributions to math-ematics and codebreaking. The keynotespeakersinclude:• NogaAlon(TelAviv)• MireilleBousquet-Mélou(Bordeaux)• JérémieBouttier(ENS,Paris)• JoannaEllis-Monaghan(St.Michael'sCollege)

• AndrásFrank(ELTE,Budapest)• TimothyGowers(Cambridge)• JamesOxley(LSU)• RichardPinch(GCHQ)• AlexanderScott(Oxford)• RamarathnamVenkatesan(Microsoft)For conference details and to book yourplace, please visit the website at https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/events/tutte100/.

FUNCTION THEORY MEETING The One Day Function Theory Meeting willbeheldonMonday4September2017atDeMorganHouse,57-58RussellSquare,London.This is a long-standing annual gatheringof complex analysts and function theorists.Invitedkeynotespeakersare:• AimoHinkkanen(UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,USA)

• NorbertSteinmetz(TechnischeUniversitätDortmund,Germany)Themeeting is open to all and there is norequirementtoregisterinadvancebutifyouwouldliketohavefurtherinformationcontactthe organiser, Thomas Kecker ([email protected])orvisitthemeetingwebsitehttps://sites.google.com/site/functiontheorymeeting.Fundingisavailabletocovertravelexpensesfor a limited number of UK based researchstudents – contact the organiser in advance.Therewillbearegistrationfeeof£10,payableontheday,whichiswaivedfortheretiredorunemployed.ThemeetingissupportedbyanLMSConferencegrant.

MODEL THEORY OF VALUED FIELDSAonedaymeetingontheModel Theory of Valued Fieldswilltakeplaceon4August2017at the JeremiahHorrocks Institute,which ispartof theUniversityofCentralLancashire,basedinPreston.This meeting is being supported by theLMSCelebratingNewAppointmentsscheme,and will be an opportunity to share somerecent developments in the subject area.Both new and established researchers areverywelcome.There isa limitedamountoffunding available to support the travel ofresearchstudents,andtheopportunity.Details of this meeting can be found atanscombe.sdf.org/newdirections.html.For more information, please contact theorganiser Sylvy Anscombe ([email protected]).


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BRITISH LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2017 TheBritish Logic Colloquium 2017willtakeplace at the University of Sussex (FalmerCampus)from8to9September2017,withtheBLCPhDdayon7September.This is theannualmeetingoftheBritishLogicColloquium.The scopeof theeventincludes mathematical and philosophicallogic aswell as logic in computer scienceandapplicationsoflogic.ThemeetingisaforumforBritishlogicianstopresenttheirwork and discuss recent developments inlogic. It also gives promising young re-searchers the opportunity tomake them-selvesknowntothelogiccommunityintheUK.The following invited speakers haveagreedtogivekeynotelectures:• HazelBrickhill(Bristol)• OliverKullmann,Swansea)• JamesLadyman(Bristol)• SamStaton(Oxford)• TamaravonGlehn,Cambridge)• KatrinTent(Münster)Theorganiser of theBritish Logic Collo-quium 2017 is Bernhard Reus (Universityof Sussex). For more information visitwww.sussex.ac.uk/blc17. Some limitedfinancial supportwill be available forUKbasedresearchstudents.ThecolloquiumissupportedbyanLMSConferencegrant.

BRITISH TOPOLOGYThe32ndBritish Topology Meeting(BTM32)will be held at the University of Leicesterfrom 6 to 8 of September 2017. InvitedspeakersincludeMoritzGroth,JelenaGrbić,Magdalena Kędziorek, Richard Hepworth,PaoloSalvatoreandMarkusSzymik.Therewillbeanopportunityforanumberof contributed talks, and postgraduatestudents and early career researchers areparticularly encouraged to participate.Theorganisersexpecttocoverexpensesofall UK based research students and of allspeakers.

Programme, registration and accom-modationdetails canbe foundathttp://www. le .a c .uk /b r i t i sh - topo logy -mtg ,and for other enquiries email AndyTonks ([email protected]). The meetingis organised by Andy Tonks, FrankNeumann,SimonaPaoliandTeimurazPi-rashvili. Themeeting is supportedby anLMSConferencegrant.

ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES IN PHYSICS AND GEOMETRY

A workshop, joint with ARTIN meeting,on Noncommutative and non-associ-ative algebraic structures in physics and geometry will be held at Queen'sUniversity Belfast from 30 August to 2September2017.The workshop will consider noncom-mutative and nonassociative algebrasand more general structures appearingin various applications, in particular inphysics, analysis, geometry, topology,homotopy theory and coding theory.Speakersinclude:• VladimirBavula(Sheffield)• KenBrown*(Glagow)• DietrichBurde(Vienna)• PaulaCarvalho(Porto)• ArnfinnLaudal(Oslo)• ChristianLomp(Porto)•MichaelPevzner(Reims)• DmitriyPiontkovskii(Moscow)• VladimirRubtsov(Angers)• DmitriRumynin(Warwick)• SueSierra,(Edinburgh)• AgataSmoktunowicz(Edinburgh)If you are interested in participat-ing, email Natalia Iyudu ([email protected]). Some financial support will beavailableforUKbasedresearchstudents.Forfurther informationvisitthewebsiteat: http://tinyurl.com/y7tbtgr8. TheworkshopissupportedbyanLMSConfer-encegrant.


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BRITISH ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY MEETINGThe third British Algebraic Geometry Meeting (BrAG) will take place from 11to 13 September 2017 at the Centre forMathematical Sciences, University ofCambridge. The aim is to bring theUKalgebraic geometry community togetherand showcase the best research in thefieldhappeningbothnationallyandinter-nationally. The meeting is designed withparticularinteresttotheneedsofyoungerparticipants,andcontainsanumberofpre-talksaimedpurelyatgraduatestudents,apostersession,andaprofessionaldevelop-mentsession.Thespeakersare:• ArendBayer(Edinburgh)• CinziaCasagrande(Universit�diTorino)• BarbaraFantechi(SISSA)• ElhamIzadi(UCSD)• JamesMcKernan(UCSD)• JohannesNicaise(ImperialCollegeandKULeuven)

• DanPetersen(UniversityofCopenhagen)

• J�rgenVoldRennemo(Oxford)• GregorySankaran(Bath)Moreinformationalongwithregistrationcanbefoundatwww.bragmeeting.uk.Themeeting is supported by an LMS Confer-ence grant, as well as the EPSRC and theClayFoundation.

DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMSA five day conference on Diophantine Problems (DIOP) will take place at theUniversity of Manchester from 11 to 15September 2017. This conference is partof the celebration of the recent reforma-tionofthenumbertheorygroup.Themostfamousperiodfornumbertheory inMan-chesterwasduringthe1920's-1940's,whenMordell worked there and attracted sucheminent number theorists as Davenport,ErdősandMahler.The conference will have 17 speakers,andwill revolve around topics in number

theoryinspiredbytheworkofMordellandDavenport (broadly interpreted),with thecentralthemebeingapplicationsofanalyticnumber theory, algebraic geometry, andmodel theory tothestudyofDiophantineproblems.Funding is available for accommodationexpensesforalimitednumberofUKbasedPhDstudentsintheMathematicalSciences.TheorganisersareGarethJonesandDanielLoughran. For further information visitthe website at https://sites.google.com/site/diophantine2017/home.Themeeting issupportedbyanLMSConferencegrant.

ASYMPTOTICS FOR STOCHASTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS TheworkshoponAsymptotics for Stochas-tic Dynamical Systems will be held at theDepartment of Mathematics of SwanseaUniversity from 29 to 31 August 2017.Stochastic dynamical systems have beenwidely used in many branch of scienceand industry, for example, engineering,physics,biology,finance,renewableenergyandmedicine,etc.Theconferenceaimstobring UK researchers and their researchstudents together with internationalinvited speakers to promote, encourage,and influence more cooperation, and tobringtogethervariousapproacheseg,the-oretical, numerical and applied, to betterunderstand stochastic dynamical systemsandsolvepracticalproblems.Morethan20speakershavebeeninvited.Fundingisavailabletocovertravelandac-commodationexpensesforalimitnumberof UK based PhD students in mathemati-cal sciences. Send expressions of interestto [email protected], giving a shortdescriptionofyourresearcharea.Formoreinformation visit: https://mathsaworkshop.wordpress.com.Theworkshopissupportedby an LMS Conference grant and the De-partment of Mathematics of College ofScienceofSwanseaUniversity.


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BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2017

The Festival is organized by the BritishScience Association (a.k.a. the BritishAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience)and ishostedthisyearby theUniversity of Brighton and the University of Sussex from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 September: www.britishscienceassociation.org/british-science-festivalThesearesomeofthemathematicalsciencesrelatedeventsinthemainprogramme.

Presidential Lecture and Reception Colva Roney-Dougal(UniversityofStAndrews)The million-dollar shuffle: symmetry and

complexityThe codebreak-er Alan Turingkicked off thestudy of whatproblems canbe solved byc o m p u t e r s .Many of thembecome easierwhen theyhave symme-tries: finding aroute is easierin a city with

agridof streets than inonewitha chaoticlayout. Colva Roney-Dougal explores howmathematics can be used to crack symmet-rical problems, and shows that sometimessymmetryitselfistheissue.Date:Tuesday5September2017Time:15.30–16.30Location:UniversityofSussex,FalmerCampus,AttenboroughCentre,GardnerTower

Robert Cuffe(GSK)Drugs, condoms and the theory of experi-mentationHow do we develop drugs that preventHIV transmission? The answers are clinical,political,personalandstatistical.Sometimessmart people and great scientists “don’tdo stats”, losing a voice in debates aboutresearch and treatment. This talk will helpyou spot bluff masquerading as statisticalexpertise, with particular reference to HIVpreventionandsomeinteractivedemonstra-tions of psychological research on howourmindswork.Date:Friday8September2017Time:13.30–14.30Location:UniversityofSussex,FalmerCampus,AsaBriggsArts,A1

Hermes Gad�lha(UniversityofYork)Male fertility: do the mathsHermesGad�lhaappliesmathematicstoun-derstandingwhatmakes"good"spermandenvisionshowthiswillimpact,ifnotrevolu-

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tionise, our understanding of fertility, fromtreatments, to contraceptives and even thedevelopmentof'robo-sperm'.Date:Saturday9September2017Time:15.00–16.00Location:BrightonCity,OldCourtroomTheatre

Daniel Colquitt (UniversityofLiverpool)Invisible mathematicsDaniel Colquitt researches themathematicsof invisibility. Invisibility cloaks have beencreated for light, sound and water. If wecanmake all these invisible, what else canwe design cloaks for? It was once hopedthat invisibility cloaks would allow us toprotect buildings from earthquakes, but itwasdeemedimpossible.Discoverhowmath-ematicsprovidesuswithanelegantsolution.Date:Tuesday5September2017Time:13.00–14.00Location:UniversityofBrightonCampus,Westlain100

Alexander Movchan and Luca Argani (UniversityofLiverpool)Towards better aneurysm treatmentsAlexander Movchan and Luca Arganidescribe a distinctive new mathematicalmodel used to treat abdominal aneurysmsknown as ‘EVAS’, comprising an aneurysm

Rayleigh waves

S-waves

together with stents and blood vesselsealants. Discover the future of EVAS andhow it is impacting on treatment for thedisorder.Date:Friday8September2017Time:16.30–17.30Location:UniversityofSussexFalmerCampus,AsaBriggsArts,A2

John Howse (UniversityofBrighton)Picturing problems DiagrammaticreasoningisaboutmorethanassemblingIkeafurnitureandsolvingRubixcubes.Theuseofintuitiveshapesopensupnewopportunitiesforcommunicat-ingproblems,soifyoufancyyourselfasaproblem-solverjoinJohnHowsetoseeifyoucansolvesomefiendishdiagrammaticreasoningchallenges.Date:Thursday7SeptemberTime:11.30–12.30Location:UniversityofSussex,FalmerCampus,AttenboroughCentre,GardnerTower

Andy Fiss, Laura Kasson Fiss and Amy ChambersThe MathematikadoThe Mathematikado, a clever parody ofGilbert and Sullivan’s operetta. The Mikadoproducedandperformedbyfemalestudents

in 1886, used parody andsongtoarguethatwomencouldmaster college-levelmaths. Findoutwhat thisstudentproductionrevealsabout the opening-up ofscience and mathemat-ics degrees to women inthe 19th Century and theissues surrounding femaleparticipation in tradition-allymalefieldsofstudy.Date:Friday8September2017Time:16.00–17.00Location:UniversityofBrighton,FalmerCampus,Checkland,C122EarthquakeWaves(DanielColquitt)


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GENERATIVE MODELS, PARAMETER LEARNING AND SPARSITY30October–3November2017

inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeVariational Methods, New Optimization Techniques and New Fast

Numerical Algorithm(29August2017-20December2017)

A key issue in image reconstruction, and in inverse problems as a whole, is the correctchoiceof imagepriors (or regularisation functionals) anddatamodels (orfidelity terms)inavariationalorBayesianreconstructionmodel.Dependingonthesetupofthemodel,verydifferentqualitativeimagereconstructionresultsareobtained.Asetupofavariationalimagingapproachisinfluencedbythetypeofimageoneaimstoreconstruct,aswellasthewaytheimageordataisacquired.Theknowledgeoftheimageproperties--suchasthereg-ularityoftheimageorpresentscalesofimagestructures--andthecapabilityofmodellingthem,arecrucialforanaccuratesetupoftheimagepriorandassuchforfaithfullyrecon-structingtheimagecontents.Theimagepriorcanhavevariousforms,suchasaregularisa-tiontermorabasis inwhichtheimageshouldbeexpanded.Sparsityplaysacentralrolehere.Sparsitypromotingregularizationisawidespreadandverypopularapproachtosolveinverseproblems.StandardSPRmethodsliketotalvariation(TV)orl1regularizationhavebeen shown to be powerful tools to recover inverse problems solutions from a reducedamountofnoisymeasurements.Nevertheless,despitetheirabilityofcapturingimportantfeaturessuchasdiscontinuities,thesemodel-basedregularizationsarealsowellknowntoproduceartefacts,suchasthestaircasingeffect,ifthemeasureddatadoesnotfitthecorre-spondingmodel.AnidealSPRforagivenapplicationshouldbetailor-made,andreconstructsolutionsonewouldexpectratherthantocreatebestfitstoastandardizedmodel.

Themechanismofthedataacquisitionprocessembodiesthedatamodel.Thismodelexplainshowthedataisrelatedtotheunderlyingimage,containinginformationaboutthenoisedis-tribution,theamountofunder-samplingandthephysicsoftheimageacquisitiontechnique.Severalstrategiesforderivinganoptimalchoiceforanimageenhancementapproachhavebeenconsideredintheliterature.Moreheuristicapproachesderivethemodelsetupfromthephysicsbehindtheacquisitionprocess.Statisticallygroundedapproachesaremoredatadriveninthesensethattheyestimateorlearnthenoiseandstructurefromthedataitself.Adaptive regularisation approaches for instance are capable of adjusting the parametervalues locally taking into account thenoise level and the local scale of structures in theimage.Moreover,machine learningmethods, e.g. dictionary learning, are very powerfultechniquestodeterminethecorrectbasisinwhichanimageshouldbereconstructed.Recentapproachesinthecommunityalsoproposetolearntheimagingmodelbybileveloptimi-sation techniques. For gainingmore insight into the reconstruction abilities of regularis-erstheiranalysisviasingularvectorshasalsoprovenvaluableinsomerecentworksinthecommunity.

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inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeMathematics of sea ice phenomena(21August–20December2017)

Interactionoficewithstructuresappearsasanimportantprocessinnumerousengineeringapplica-tions including icingofstructures (planes, turbines,cables, shipsetc.), thermally induced loadsonstructuresfromiceandfrozensoils,andmechanicalloadsonoffshoreandcoastalstructuresduetothecontactinteraction.Thephysicalmechanismsofice-structureinteractionsarephysicallyrelatedtophasechanges,icemicro-structure,therheologyandstrengthofice,propertiesofcontactinterac-tionoficewithdifferentmaterials,propertiesandbehaviourofstructuresundertheloading,andthedrivingforcesappliedtotheicewhenitinteractswithstructures.Understandingofthephysicalphenomenaandproperformulationofmathematicalmodelsdescribingice-structureinteractionsarenecessaryforadequatenumericalsimulationswithusefulinputforindustry.Theworkshopprogramincludeslecturesandseminars.Lecturingwillbeperformedbywell-knownscientistsexperiencedinexperimentalinvestigationsofphysicalandmechanicalpropertiesofice,laboratoryandfieldstudiesoficeactionsondifferentstructures,formulationofmathematicalmodelsandnumericalsimulationsaccordingtoindustryneeds.Seminarsareorganizedforstudentswithmathematicalbackgroundtogainexperiencewithmathematicalmodelsandconceptionsusedforthedescriptionofice-structureinteractionsandideasfortheirfurtherdevelopment.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitewww.newton.ac.uk/event/sipw03

Closing date for receipt of applications 6 August 2017

ICE FRACTURE AND CRACKS4–8December2017

Thisworkshopwillfosterinteractionsbetweenresearchersinvestigationcrackingphenomenaatdifferentscalesandpractitionersinterestedinexplanationsatdifferentscales.Broadlyspeaking,the fracture of sea ice occupies three settings: downscale (sea ice mechanics), mesoscale (themarginalicezone,MIZ)andupscale(seaicedynamics).Atthedownscale,theprimarymotivationisice-structureinteractionwithaseaicecoverthatmaybedeformed,discontinuous,comprisedofpressureridges,raftedice,icerubbleanddiscreteicefloes.

At the mesoscale, the steady increase in the width of the MIZ (apparently caused by globalwarming), isunexplainedbypresentwave-iceknowledge; thebreakupof sea icefloesandag-gregatesoffloesisthesubjectofintensestudy.Attheupscale,theprimarymotivationisthede-velopmentofcontinuummodelsofseaicerheologysuitableforinclusionwithinregionalorglobalclimatemodels,andthechallengeistoaccuratelyforecasttheextentofseaiceintheArctic(whichissteadilydeclining),andintheAntarctica,whichhasrecentlyrecordedthreerecordseaiceextents2013-2015(areversetrend).Atthisworkshop,thefocusisontherolesoffracturemechanicsanddamagemechanics inthebreakupof iceshelves, riverandsea icebreakup, ice-structure inden-tation, FEM-DEMmodels, probabilisticmodels, crack nucleation, hydrofracture, refrozen leads,iceedgefailureprocesses,brittlecompressivefailure,Coulombicfaulting,andanisotropicseaicedynamics.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitewww.newton.ac.uk/event/sipw04

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inassociationwiththeIsaacNewtonInstituteprogrammeGrowth Form and Self-Organisation(22August-20December2017)

Theaimofthisworkshopistoreviewrecentadvancesinmathematicalaspectsofshapeanalysis (SA),and someof their implications for computationalanatomy (CA), in thecontext of open problems relating to growth, self-organisation, and shape, both inlivingand inanimate systems. The term“shapeanalysis” is understoodherebroadly,notonlyasatoolforanalyzingMRIorPETimagesofhumananatomyviaCA,butalsoasageneralmathematicalapproachtoshapedifferentiation,variation,anddevelop-ment.Mathematically,SAisthestudyofsmoothinvertiblemaps(diffeomorphisms)onembeddedmanifoldsandimmersions.ThediffeomorphicmethodsofshapeanalysisareimportanttoolsinCA,forexampleinimageregistrationregardedasanoptimalcontrolproblemforshapes.Thesemethodscanbediscretizedusingwell-adaptedformsoffiniteelementscalled“diffeons,”associatedwithmomentummaps.Momentummapsmaybetailoredtobiomedicalimagedata,soapplicationsofSAareubiquitousinCA.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitehttp://www.newton.ac.uk/event/gfsw03

Closing date for receipt of applications 11 August 2017

FORM IN ART, TOYS, AND GAMES29November-1December2017

This workshop’s theme is more open in its scope. Mathematicians and scientistsworkingonthephysicalaspectsofart,ontheart-makingprocesses,andonthephysicsoftoys—whetherthosemadeforentertainmentordesignedfromthestarttoservepedagogical purposes—are working individually, “on the side,” or in small groupsdisconnectedfromoneanother.Oneofthepurposesofthisworkshop,therefore,isto establish links between researchers pursuing such diversions and perhaps beginformingacommunity.Thethemeofthisworkshopencompassesboththeemergenceofforminart,includingthemathematicalandphysicalaspectsofartisticprocessesandtechniques,andthepropertiesandroleofforminfinishedartworks.Theseissuesareattheinterfacebetweenscienceandartandthegoalistoshedlightontheartists’techniquesandtheirimplicationsfortheartworksand,potentially,forarthistoryandartappreciation.Asomewhatseparatebutrelatedthemeconcernsthedynamicsof“artful”toysanddevices.

Furtherinformationavailablefromthewebsitehttp://www.newton.ac.uk/event/gfsw04

Closing date for receipt of applications: 1 September 2017

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BCS-FACS Evening SeminarJoint event with the London Mathematical Society

Thursday 2 November 2017 6:00 pm

Symbolic Computation Techniques in SMT SolvingThe satisfi ability problem is the problem of deciding whether a logical formula is satisfi able. For fi rst-order arithmetic theories, in the early 20th century some novel solutions in form of decision procedures were developed in the area of Mathematical Logic. With the advent of powerful computer architectures, a new research line of Symbolic Computation started to develop practically feasible implementations of such decision procedures.

Independently, for checking the satisfi ability of propositional logic formulas, around 1960 a new technology called SAT solving started its career. Despite the fact that the problem is NP complete, SAT solvers showed to be very effi cient when employed by formal methods for verifi cation. Motivated by this success, the power of SAT solving for Boolean problems had been extended to cover also different theories. Nowadays, fast SAT-modu-lo-theories (SMT) solvers are available also for arithmetic problems. These sophisticated tools are continuously gaining importance, as they are at the heart of many techniques for the analysis of programs and probabilistic, timed, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, for test-case generation, for solving large combinatorial problems and complex scheduling tasks, for product design optimisation, planning and controller synthesis, just to mention a few well-known areas.

Due to their different roots, Symbolic Computation and SMT solving tackle the satisfi ability problem differently, offering potential for combining their strengths. This talk will provide a general introduction to SMT solving and decision procedures for non-linear arithmetic, and show on the example of the Cylindrical Algebraic Decompo-sition method how algebraic decision procedures, rooted in Symbolic Computation, can be adopted in the SMT solving context to synthesise beautiful novel techniques for solving arithmetic problems.

Venue: London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS. Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm.

The seminar is free of charge. If you would like to attend, please email [email protected].

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SIMON FAIRTHORNE

Simon Fairthorne,who was electeda member of theLondonMathemati-cal Society on 21December 1972,died on 14 May2017,aged76.

Peter Saunders writes: Simon wasborn in Farnbor-

ough, where his father was working for theRoyal Aircraft Establishment. He obtained amathematics degree at Imperial College in1963andafterthreeyearsatBirkbeckCollegebecameassistantlecturerandthenlectureratQueenElizabethCollege(QEC).While he was at QEC, computers startedto become important in UK universities andSimonwas one of themanymathematicianswho turned their attention to thisnewfield.He helped set up and run QEC’s link to the

Universityof Londonmain frameandalso itsownsmallmachine.Helecturedoncomputerscience as well as mathematics and wasco-authorofanearlytextoncomputing,Using Computers, published in 1977. In 1985,whenQECandChelseamergedwithKing’sCollegeLondon, there was a suggestion that Simonmight transfer to the new Computer Sciencedepartment,buthechosetoremaininmath-ematics.Simon was a very popular lecturer andsomeonethatstudentswouldlooktoforadviceand encouragement. He was still teachingamodule thispast session, longafterhehadofficiallyretired,andhewasatutorwiththeOpenUniversityformorethan40years.Healsohadmanyinterestsoutsidemathematics.Theseincluded some you might have expected insomeonewithhisbackground,suchasbridge,philately, the Hampshire cricket club andgenealogy–butAmericanfootballtoo.He is survivedby Belinda, towhomhewasmarriedfor53years,andtheirtwodaughters,RosannaandMarianne.

BRILLIANT GEOMETRY IN EDINBURGH

An interactive exhibition called Brilliant GeometrywasheldattheSummerhallGalleryin Edinburgh, from13May to 4 June 2017.Thetargetaudiencewasthegeneralpublic,not just academics. In total, there wereover1,650visitors.Therewerestoriesaboutthe exhibition in The Times, The Scotsman, Glasgow Herald,andevenMetro!Thehighlightoftheexhibitionwasathree-dimensionalzoetropeillustratingahypercuberotating in four dimensional space. Thirty3Dprintedprojections of the hypercube, invarious stages of rotation, are attached toa spinningdisc and illuminatedbya syncedstroboscope. The viewer's eyes and braincombinethestrobingimagestovisualizeananimatedthreedimensionalobject.ThestartingpointoftheEdinburghexhibi-tion was an exhibition by Henry Segerman(Oklahoma State) and Saul Schleimer

(Warwick) entitled "Illustrating Geometry",held in June and July 2014 at the SimonsCenter in StonyBrook. InAugust 2014 theygave a joint colloquium at the School ofMathematicsoftheUniversityofEdinburgh.The colloquium included a demonstrationofhowshadows,castbypointlight-sources,of various 3D printed spheres illustrate thedistinctions of euclidean, spherical, and hy-perbolic geometry. This was the seed forthe Edinburgh exhibit, at which Segermanand Schleimer developed their ideas muchfurther. The colloquium was attended byPeterReidandMarkReynoldsoftheUniver-sityofEdinburghCollegeofScienceandEn-gineeringEngagementTeam,whoweresub-sequently inspiredtodesign,withSchleimerand Segerman, and build, the zoetrope aswell as the other interactive installationsappearing in theexhibition.Other than the

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zoetrope, each exhibitshowed the shadow castby a bright LED througha 3D printed sphere. The3D prints were producedby Shapeways.com. Ex-planatory posters wereproduced by Schleimerand Sabetta Matsumoto,SchoolofPhysics,GeorgiaTech. The exhibition wasjointly funded by theUniversity of Warwickand the University ofEdinburgh.Theexhibitionwas staffed by studentsfrom the Outreach Teamof the Edinburgh SchoolofMathematics.The YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FUMJPjPSgQ isawalk through the exhibition. Thewebsitehttp://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/brilliantgeometryhasfurtherbackgroundabouttheex-hibitionandthemathematicsinvolved.

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THE JOY OF SET: THE MANY MATHEMATICAL DIMENSIONS OF A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE CARD GAME byLizMcMahon,GaryGordon,HannahGordon&RebeccaGordon,PrincetonUniversityPress,2016,pp320,£24.95,US$29.95,ISBN978-0691166148.

M a t h e m a t i c i a n sbegan playing SET®inthe1990’s,andeversince, we have beenlookingforabooklikethis! This card game,a happy by-productof genetic researchby Marsha Falco,has connections toamyriadofmathemat-icsdisciplines,andthis

text is the first delve into those topics. LizMcMahon,GaryGordon,andtheirdaughters,HannahandRebecca,havedevelopedabookthatisfunandaccessible, inthespiritofthegameitself.TheJoyofSET isapleasureto read. Thepersonalities of the authors shine throughthe text. The preface begins, “We loveSET®,” and each chapter is an affirmationofthissentiment.Photographsandillustra-tionsilluminatecomplexconcepts.Simpsonsreferences,SET®puns,andlittlejokeslitterthepages.Howdidtheymanagetofitinsomuchmath?Ineachofthefirstfivechaptersandinter-ludes, the mathematics fits into conversa-tions between three friends. Each chapterhas a new set of heroes, always with theinitialsS.,E.,andT. Forexample,Socrates,Euclid, and Theano discuss SET® andgeometry in chapter five. These chapterscoverthemechanicsofthegameandsomecounting, probability, modular arithmetic,and geometry. Combinatorial proofs aredisguised as elegant arguments given toconvince the reader of interesting results.These chapters are crafted tobeextremelyaccessible, employing complex techniquesincluding correcting for over counting andarguing by incidence counting withoutlosing the reader and without losing thereader’sinterest.TheheroesofeachchapterexitthestorytoplaySET®,andtheauthorsregularly invite the reader to take a break

andplaySET®,too.TheinterludegivesadvicetoimproveyourSET®gameandvariationsonthegameplay.Asafailsafe,theauthorsprovideempiricallytestedmethodstomakeyouropponentdoworse. For example, “Have a cat aroundwhenyouplay…Thiswillpreventyoufromseeingsomeofthecards,butthegoodnewsis that it will prevent others from seeingthosecardsaswell(p.147).”Thelastfivechaptersgodeeperintomath-ematics. The conversation construct goes,but the conversational style stays. Thesechapters speak to mathematicians whoenjoy SET®, not to a general audience,covering more advanced combinatorics,probabilityandstatistics,linearalgebraandvectors,deeperanalysisofSET®asanaffinegeometry, and computer simulations andcomputations. The authors assume math-ematical maturity in these chapters. Forexample,chaptersevenemploysthederiva-tiveofthebinomial theorem. Thefamiliarmathematicstextformat,withproblemsandsuggested projects after each chapterwithsolutionsatthebackofthebook,standsoutmoreherethanintheprecedingchapters.Overall,thetextisdrivenbyquestionsthatSET® players have likely asked themselves.HowmanySETsare there inadeck? In12cards, what is the probability that there isno SET? Howmany groups of three cardsarenotSETs? WhattypesofSETsaremostcommon?Whatistheprobabilitythatthreecards in a SET will have different colors,shapes, numbers, and shading? Can weexamine the final board after a game tocheckifanyonecheated?Thistextaddressesthese while illuminating the underlyingmathematics, employinga varietyofmath-ematicaltechniquesatvaryinglevelsofdif-ficulty.Thisbookisagem,appropriateforeveryonefromahighschoolSET®enthusi-asttoaprofessionalmathematician.

DeborahChunWestVirginiaUniversityInstituteofTechnology

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SUMMING IT UP: FROM ONE PLUS ONE TO MODERN NUMBER THEORY byAvnerAshandRobertGross,PrincetonUniversityPress,hb:2016,pp248,£22.95,US$27.95, ISBN978-0691170190,pb:2018January,pp248,£14.95,US$16.95ISBN978-0691178516.

This is a lovelybook, written in anengaging and jauntystyle,which takes thereader on a journeyfrom very simplesums (such as Euler'sfamous closed formforthesumofthefirstNpositiveintegers)tothe advanced theoryof modular forms,

goingviamanyinterestingdiversionssuchasWaring'sproblem(onsumsofsquares,cubes,etc)andthetheoryofpartitions.Manytimestheauthorsgiveasenseofwhysomethingisstudied.Forinstancetheyshowchangingthequestionfrom"isthisnumbera sum of squares?" to "in howmany waysis this number a sumof two squares" leadsto deeper, more interesting maths. Thereis a real senseofgoingonaexplorationofdiscovery with the authors throughout thebook.Forsomeofthesimplerresults,theauthorsprovide proofs, with sufficient precisionrequired for accuracy, but avoiding beingtoopedantic.Atotherpoints,thenatureofthe advanced material they are addressingforces them to either simply state a result("Wewon'tproveanythingaboutthishere,but we will tell you the answer") or givehintsastohowaproofwouldbeconstructed("Theproofsofmostoftheseresultsaretooadvancedtoinclude,butwecangiveglimpsesofwhymodularformscomeintothegame").Another lovely aspect of this book is thatthe authors often present the motivationsbehindaproof,ratherthangivingitasafait accompli (for instance in their discussion toshow that every integer can be written asthe sum of four squares, or when they arefindingthedimensionofMkthevectorspaceofmodularformsofweightk).Theirdrivingmotivationistobuildupenoughmathemat-ics to study and understandmodular forms

andtheirapplications.Theauthorshavetwootherbooks,and,althougheachcancertainlybe read stand-alone, they clearly think ofthem as a trilogy. Indeed, I get the sensethisbookwaswrittentogiveatreatmentofmodularformsthatwasmissingfromthefirsttwobooks,andthefinalchapteriseffectivelyasupplementtothepreviousbooks.Thefirstsectionismeanttobeaccessibletoahigh school student,with thenext coupleof sections needing knowledge typicallytaught in the first year of amaths degree.(Of course, the fact that deep mathemati-cal questions can be askedwith little back-ground knowledge is not new; this bookdoesaremarkablejobofshininglightonthemathematicsneededtosolvesuchquestions).Think of this book as an ideal colloquiumtalk: It gives a flavour of a very interestingtopic,showsthekindofquestionsaskedandtheapplicationsfound,andgivesahintastothemathsusedinfindingtheanswers.Not every decision they made is perfect.For instance I felt there was possibly toomuchfiddlydetailinthesectiononsummingpowers of n in Chapter 6 (although thatchapter is titled 'SumsofPowersUsingLotsofAlgebra'),where the reader needs to becomfortablewith integration, infinite seriesand partial derivatives --- not the sort ofmaterialatypicalhighschoolstudentwouldhaveseen!Ialsofeltthetitleofthebookisnot indicative of its contents. But these areminorcriticisms.I strongly recommend this book. It was adelighttoread,andwouldbeasuitablegiftto stretch a schoolchild who's deeply inter-estedinmathematics,orforanundergradu-atetohelpthemseetheunderlyingbeauty,reason and connectedness in their subject,or for a professional mathematician to ap-preciatesomeoftheamazingapplicabilityofmodularforms–acurrentandactiveareaofresearch.

ChrisHughesUniversityofYork


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LMS Midlands Regional Meeting and WorkshopModern Geometry and Physics

18 September 2017Loughborough University

The LMS Midlands Regional Meeting will take place at Loughborough University on Monday 18 September 2017.

The speakers are:

• Giovanni Felder (ETH, Zurich)• Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)• Nikita Nekrasov (Simons Center, Stony Brook)

The meeting will be followed by a three-day workshop on Modern Geometry and Physics, 19-21 September. The speakers include Barbara Bolognese (Sheffi eld), Andrea Brini (Imperial), Leonid Chekhov (Mos-cow), Domenico Fiorenza (Rome), Boris Dubrovin (Trieste), Vladimir Fock (Strasbourg), Lotte Hollands (Heriot-Watt), Marina Logares (Plymouth) and Elisa Postinghel (Loughborough).

Funds may be available to support the attendance of the UK research students.

Enquiries should be addressed to the organisers: H. Ahmadinezhad ([email protected]) and A.P. Veselov ([email protected])


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CALENDAR OF EVENTSThiscalendarlistsSocietymeetingsandothermathematicalevents.FurtherinformationmaybeobtainedfromtheappropriateLMSNewsletterwhosenumberisgiveninbrackets.AfullerlistisgivenontheSociety’swebsite(www.lms.ac.uk/content/calendar)[email protected].

JULY 20173–5GravityandBlackHoles,Cambridge(468)3–7OrthogonalPolynomials,SpecialFunctionsandApplications,UniversityofKent(470)3–7ScalableStatisticalInference,INICambridge(466)3–7BSDEs,SPDEsandtheirApplicationsWorkshop,Edinburgh3–7BritishCombinatorialConference,Strathclyde(464)6–7StochasticEpidemicModelswithStructuredPopulations,UniversityofNottingham(470)9–13FormalPowerSeriesandCombinatoricsConference,QMUL(470)10–11BoundaryIntegralMethods,NottinghamTrentUniversity(468)10–12MathematicalModelsinEcologyandEvolutionConference,City,UniversityofLondon(470)10–12TutteCentenaryConference,Cambridge(471)10–14Computer-aidedMathematicalProof,INICambridge(466)10–19FoundationsofComputationalMathematicsConference,Barcelona(461)17–21ConferenceonApplicationsofComputerAlgebra,Jerusalem31–5AugInternationalMathematicsCompetition,Blagoevgrad,Bulgaria(466)

AUGUST 20171–4InteractionsofSymplecticandAlgebraicGeometry,Warwick(470)1–4YoungResearchersinMathematicsConference,UniversityofKent(469)4ModelTheoryofValuedFields,UniversityofCentralLancashire(471)6–12GroupsStAndrewsConference,Birmingham(469)7–10NonlinearWaterWaves,INICambridge(468)29–31AsymptoticsforStochasticDynamicalSystems,SwanseaUniversity(471)30–2SeptNoncommutativeandNon-AssociativeAlgebraicStructuresinPhysicsandGeometry,Queen'sUniversityBelfast(471)

SEPTEMBER 20171ChristopherHooleyandtheArtinConjecture:50YearsOn,Bristol(468)4FunctionTheoryMeeting,DeMorganHouse,London(471)4–8SeptemberEuropeanStudyGroupswithIndustry,Warwick(468)4–8VariationalMethods,NewOptimisationTechniquesandNewFastNumericalAlgorithm,INICambridge(468)5–9BritishScienceFestival,Brighton(471)6–8BritishTopologyMeeting,UniversityofLeicester(471)8–9BritishLogicColloquium2017,UniversityofSussex(471)7–8LMSProspectsinMathematicsWorkshop,Reading(470)10–15MathematicsEducationfortheFutureDecade,Balatonfüred,Hungary(460)11–13BritishAlgebraicGeometryMeeting,Cambridge(471)11–15AlgebraicTopologyofManifoldsLMS-CMIResearchSchool,Oxford(470)11–15DiophantineProblems,UniversityofManchester(471)18LMSMidlandsRegionalMeeting,Loughborough(471)18–22Navier–StokesandEulerEquations

Workshop,Sussex20LMSPopularLectures,Birmingham(471)

OCTOBER 20172–6Ice–FluidInteractionINIWorkshop,Cambridge(470)12SymmetryandComputationLMS-IMAJointMeeting,DeMorganHouse,London(470)30–3NovGenerativeModels,ParameterLearningandSparsityINIWorkshop,Cambridge(471)

NOVEMBER 20172SymbolicComputationTechniquesinSMTSolving,BCS-FACSEveningSeminar,London(471)6–10Ice-StructureInteractionINIWorkshop,Cambridge(471)7–8OpportunitiesfortheFuture:WomeninMathematics,Bristol(471)10GraduateStudentMeeting,London10LMSAnnualGeneralMeeting,London13–17ShapeAnalysisandComputationalAnatomyINIWorkshop,Cambridge(471)29–1DecFormandArt,Toys,andGamesINIWorkshop,Cambridge(471)

LMS REPRESENTATIVES DAYheld at De Morgan House on 10 May 2017

TheLMSRepresentativesDayisanannualmeetingoftheSocietywithitsnationwidenetworkofrepresenta-

tives,heldatthehomeoftheSocietyinLondon:DeMorganHouse.Themeetingisheldtoassesshowthe

UKmathematicalcommunityisdoing,andimportantlygivesSocietymembersthechancetodirectlyinform

theSocietyofstepsitcantakeinordertofurtheradvancethemathematicalsciences.

TreasurerProfessorRobertCurtisdiscussinghowthefinancesoftheSocietyfunction.

President-DesignateProfessorCarolineSerieshighlightingafutureWomeninMathematicsevent.

DrOlaTörnkvistexplainingtheintricaciesofthedevelopingoneoftheSociety’sjournals.

HeidiMorstang,directorof‘FramesofMind’,discussingthepres-entationofherdocumentaryintohowmathematiciansthink.

DrDmitryRumyninandPresident-DesignateProfessorCarolineSeriesdiscussingthemeetinginfrontofthePlückerCollection.

ProfessorJohnHunton,PublicationsSecretaryattheLMS,givesatalkontheworkofLMSPublications

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SIR ANDREW WILES AWARDED COPLEY MEDAL · [email protected] No. 471 July 2017 3 Editorial office London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57–58 Russell Square, London WC1B