It's that moment again, when you find out you haven't won a Fields Medal.

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), held every four years, is in Philadelphia next week and you can watch with colleagues as we are streaming the opening ceremony in L3 from just before 2 p.m (when the medals are announced). As well as the Fields, there are other prestigious medals such as the Chern and the Abacus, so it's well worth a watch.

A leopard may not be able to change its spots, but a mathematician can.

In case you missed it in this week's divisional newsletter, Dominic Vella has received one of the MPLS teaching awards. Congratulations to Dominic.

We announced our supervision awardees in a recent Bulletin and we didn't win anything else. As someone said, all prizes are rubbish, but that doesn't mean I don't want to win one.