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The 2010 JPBM Communications Award is made to Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

The JPBM (Joint Policy Board for Mathematics) is an umbrella organization for four major American mathematical societies: the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The JPBM Communications Award was established in 1988 to recognize journalists, mathematicians, and others who, on a sustained basis, bring mathematical ideas and information to non-mathematical audiences. The award recognizes a significant accumulated contribution to the public understanding of mathematics.

For the past fifteen years Professor du Sautoy has complemented his love of mathematical discovery with a passion for communicating mathematics to a broad public. He has reached hundreds of thousands through his books, television shows, and hundreds of articles and appearances in newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. His 2003 book on the Riemann Hypothesis, entitled "The Music of the Primes", is a best-seller which has been translated into 10 languages. In his 2008 book "Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature", du Sautoy guides the reader through groups and symmetry, from Babylonia to moonshine theory, while at the same time giving an engaging glimpse into mathematicians' minds. His four part television, the Story of Maths, presents a fascinating look at the development of mathematics from the design of the pyramids in Egypt to Perelman's proof of Poincaré's Conjecture.

Whether it is talking about Beckham's choice of number on a sports radio program, explaining the work of the Abel prize winner on Norwegian television, writing a weekly math column for the London Times, hosting a television game show based on math puzzles, or delivering the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Marcus du Sautoy invariably seizes opportunities to make mathematics more accessible and more appealing.

Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Bursaries

NERC Standard Research Grants

NERC Follow-on Fund

EPSRC Climate Geoengineering Sandpit - call for participants

Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowships

EPSRC-LMS Durham Symposia - call for proposals

LMS Research Workshops

EPSRC-LMS Short Instructional Courses

Royal Society of Edinburgh International Open Exchange Programme

EPSRC-KTN CASE Awards in Industrial Mathematics

Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Bursaries

Eligibility: Undergraduates, Postdoctoral Research Assistants and University Lecturers (early career) registered at a UK Institution.  Bursaries will not be awarded for projects that are part of degree work or expeditions, or that take place overseas for more than 50% of the project time.
Duration: support provided for 6 - 8 weeks.
Deadline: 21st January 2010
Sponsor guidelines and application form: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/nsbur/page_400.html

NERC Standard Research Grants

Eligibility: This is an open competition for curiosity-motivated basic, strategic or applied research.  Grants provide a minimum of £25,000 for directly incurred costs. 
Deadline: 10th June 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/available/researchgrants/typesofaward/standards.asp

NERC Follow-on Fund

This award enables scientists to develop research ideas to a stage where commercial opportunities (eg licensing, seed or equity funds) can be secured.
Duration: up to 12 months with no limit on the funding request amount.
Deadline: 15th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/followonfund.asp

EPSRC Climate Geoengineering Sandpit - call for participants

The aim of this call is to invite participants for an interdisciplinary sandpit focused on the development of geoengineering technologies.  It is expected that up to £3.5million will be made available to fund research projects arising from this sandpit.
Deadline: 11th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/ClimateGeoengineeringSandpit.htm

Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowships

These support postdoctoral scientists who have recently decided to recommence a scientific research career after a break of at least two years.
Duration: fellowships are tenable for 2 - 4 years and include salary and research expenses
Deadline: 15th February 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/Fellowships-and-personal-awards/Basic-biomedical-fellowships/WTD004380.htm

EPSRC-LMS Durham Symposia

This meeting is held in July and usually lasts 10 days with up to around 70 participants from different branches of mathematics.  Preliminary proposals are made approximately two years in advance of the meeting.  Prospective organisers should read the guidance notes (see weblink below).  Each symposium is funded by a substantial EPSRC research grant.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html

LMS Research Workshops

These can be research workshops held anywhere in the UK and are an opportunity for a small group of active researchers to work together for a concentrated period, on a specialised topic.  There is no prescribed format for the workshop but it is expected that the number of participants will be no more than 40 and could be as low as 10, meeting for a period of one week or more.
Applicants are advised to contact Professor Nick Manton (@email) informally about their proposed programme and timescale before making an application.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html

EPSRC-LMS Short Instructional Courses

The principal aim of the programme is to provide training for postgraduate students in core areas of mathematics.  It is expected that the course will be accessible to first year research students not least to accommodate students from related areas.  Prospective organisers should refer to the sponsor guidelines (see weblink below) and contact the Short Course Facilitator, Dr Riaz Ahmad (@email) in the first instance.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html

Royal Society of Edinburgh International Open Exchange Programme

This programme supports researchers wishing to further collaboration with research groups in other countries not covered by bilateral agreements.  The grants are for visits of one to four weeks' duration. The society will provide funding to cover travel, visa, subsistence and accommodation costs.
Award maximum not specified.
Deadlines in 2010: 15th January; 7th April; June (date tbc) and 10th October
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.rse.org.uk/international/exchanges/index.htm#eligibility

EPSRC-KTN CASE Awards in Industrial Mathematics

These awards support postgraduate researchers working on new industrial-academic collaborations in mathematics. In general the funders are looking for projects that combine a significant mathematical research challenge with the prospect of commercial impact.
Deadline: 1st February 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://maths.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/ims/mechanisms/case/?mode=0

Congratulations to Marcus du Sautoy on the award of an OBE for services to Science.

New Years Honours List 2010

Nick Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, has been announced as the President-Elect of SIAM.

Fellowships: 

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships

Newton International Fellowships

1851 Royal Commission Fellowships

ERC Advanced Grant (personal fellowship)

Leverhulme Trust senior research fellowships (Royal Society)

Partnerships for public engagement starter grants (EPSRC)

LMS collaborative small grants

LMS conference grants

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships

Eligibility: early stage (1-2 postdoctoral positions), PhD must be submitted before 1st October 2009, citizenship restrictions (see guidelines for details)
Duration: maximum 4 years
Internal deadline: 7th December 2009
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gcf4 

Newton International Fellowships

Eligibility: early stage (1-2 postdoctoral positions), see guidelines for details
Duration: 2 years
Internal deadline: 4th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gcff 

1851 Royal Commission Fellowships

Eligibility: citizenship and residency restrictions (see guidelines for detail), PhD must be from different institution to where fellowship held
Duration: 3 years
Internal deadline: 25th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gcfv

ERC Advanced Grant (personal fellowship)

For researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right. ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders in any field of science, engineering and scholarship to pursue frontier research of their choice.  
Funding: up to € 3.5 M per grant (normally up to € 2.5 M)
Duration: up to 5 years
Internal deadline: ASAP
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gccg

Leverhulme Trust senior research fellowships (Royal Society)

Provides opportunities for academics in all areas of the life and physical sciences, including engineering but excluding clinical medicine, to be relieved of their teaching and administrative duties while conducting full-time research.  Providing a reimbursement of the candidate's salary costs to their employing institution and research expenses worth up to £2,500.
Internal deadline: 11th December 2009
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gcdi

Partnerships for public engagement starter grants (EPSRC)

EPSRC is particularly interested in projects that not only increase the public's awareness of science and engineering, but also include some level of dialogue between members of the public and scientists or engineers.  Funding for starter grants will not exceed £20,000 full economic costs per award.
Internal deadline: 11th December 2009
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gce6  

LMS collaborative small grants

These support visits for collaborative research, either by the grantee to an institution in the UK or abroad, or by another mathematician to the home of the grantee.  Up to £600 is available.
Internal deadline: 10th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/Gcek

LMS conference grants

These grants are for organisers of mathematical conferences to be held in the UK.  The current upper limit for grants is £6000.
Internal deadline: 10th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://tr.im/GceI

The 1st Columbia-Oxford Joint Workshop in Mathematical Finance will be held on 28-29 June, 2010, at Columbia, New York.