News From the Wider Mathematical Community

Monday 24 May 2021, 14.00-16.30
Hosted online by ICMS

14.10 Opening Lecture: Testing General Relativity with Cosmological Observations - Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva)

15.00 Break

15.15 Mary Cartwright Lecture: Analyticity in the Sky with (causal) Diamonds - Claudia de Rham (Imperial College London)

Registration and more information is available on the LMS website

The IMforFUTURE project is coming to its conclusion and will be celebrated with a final workshop focused on mathematical and statistical methodologies applied to omics research.  

EPSRC has opened a race equality ‘Have your say’ community survey on its website (information at the bottom of the web page). This follows on from the recent launch of their race equality initiative and publication of their detailed ethnicity data analysis.

Poetrishy, in its own words, is the convolution of poetry and mathematics. Poetrishy = poetry ⨂ maths

Sounds a little pretentious but they are looking for contributions, whether poetry, video/audio, article/essay, game, app or even code.

Thanks to Renaud Lambiotte for the suggestion. Please feel free to make yours.

Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?
Sarah Hart, Gresham Professor of Geometry
Tues 27 April 2021, 1pm-2pm (or watch later)
Register and more information

The Maths of Life and Death
Dr Kit Yates
Tues 4 May 2021, 6pm-7pm (or watch later) 
Register and more information

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the British Early Career Mathematicians’ Colloquium (BECMC) (formerly BYMC).

Multiplicities is a broad audience seminar series geared towards transversal topics whose aim is to highlight the diversity of mathematics and mathematicians. It is especially intended for PhD students, interested in widening their horizons. Full list of seminars here

Call for applications now open.

Thanks to the continued generosity of the Liber Foundation, the London Mathematical Society is delighted to announce that it will again be able to award a number of Emmy Noether Fellowships in 2021, up to a total of £25,000.

We are delighted to announce that the London Mathematical Society and UCL Special Collections are holding an LMS Spitalfields History of Mathematics meeting to celebrate the launch of the Educational Times Digital Archive.

The London Mathematical Society administers two £6,000 travel awards funded by the Cecil King Memorial Foundation for early career mathematicians, to support a period of study or research abroad, typically for a period of three months.