Reminder: the EMS Call for Proposals for Mathematical events in 2017 closes soon!
www.euro-math-soc.eu/…/call-proposals-scientific-activities…
It's been a good few days for my universities! My Alma Mater is number 1 in the Times Higher Education world rankings:
http://time.com/…/oxford-best-universities-times-higher-ed…/
...and my employer is the Times & Sunday Times University of the Year!...
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/…/article/3917/university_of_the_year
EMS Newsletter
Have you read the latest EMS newsletter? It includes an entertaining new interview with Andrew Wiles, who reveals himself to be neither a bird nor a frog.
Click here: http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/…/2016-09-101.pdf
The 101st edition of the EMS Newsletter is online now! Featuring: an interview with Abel Laureate Andrew Wiles, "Mathematics in Kolmogorov’s School" by N. Salni...kov & K. Semenov, "Wrinkles: From the Sea to Mathematics" by F. Laudenbach, and much, much more! Click through to read.
See MoreIf you're in Leeds on Thursday evening, come to a fantastic & free public maths talk by Tadashi Tokieda: "A world from a sheet of paper".
Then on Saturday another! Hannah Fry on "The mathematics of love". Click through for more details.
http://mathsworlduk.com/matrix-conference-…/public-lectures/
Next week in Leeds there will be two free public maths talks, by two top public maths talkers: Tadashi Tokieda & Hannah Fry. If you're in Leeds and don't hate maths, please do come along.
Tadashi's talk is "A world from a sheet of paper", encompassing origami and other papery wonders, and is on Thursday 1st September at 5pm.
Hannah's talk is on "The Mathematics of Love", on Saturday 3rd September at 11am.
...Free registration is required.
http://mathsworlduk.com/matrix-conference-…/public-lectures/
Six habits of highly mathematical people, by Jeremy Kun:
1. Discussing definitions
2. Coming up with counterexamples
3. Being wrong often and admitting it...
4. Evaluating many possible consequences of a claim
5. Teasing apart the assumptions underlying an argument
6. Scaling the ladder of abstraction
The London Mathematical Society Members' Book really is an extraordinary historical document - the ultimate mathematical autograph hunt. I must have spent an hour and a half leafing through its pages last night, my jaw constantly dropping at the next amazing signatures. A tiny sample is shown here. (I enthusiastically thank the LMS for permission to handle the book, and to take and publish these photos.)
Some beautiful polyhedra and mathematical art on display at 7ECM, in collaboration with Imaginary. You can play the polyhedral game at polymake.org/matchthenet
The EMS Prizewinners are:
Mark Braverman (Princeton)
Vincent Calvez (ENS Lyon)
Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES)...
James Maynard (Oxford)
Guido De Philippis (Trieste)
Peter Scholze (Bonn)
Péter Varjú (Cambridge)
Geordie Williamson (Bonn)
Thomas Willwacher (ETH Zürich))
Sarah Zahedi (KTH Stockholm)
The Otto Neugebauer Prize: Jeremy Gray (Open University, UK)
The Felix Klein Prize: Patrice Hauret (Michelin)
Detailed laudations are here: http://bit.ly/29UfKRP
Some breaking news from today's EMS Council meeting. A significant change to membership rules has been approved.
New rule:
"Anyone who is a student at the time ...of becoming an individual EMS member, whether PhD or in a more junior category, shall enjoy a three-year introductory period with membership fees waived. All the standard benefits will be granted during this time, except printed copies of the Newsletter."
The old version was as follows:
"A research student or postdoctoral mathematician can have a two-year introductory fee of [y/4] until at most two years have passed from his or her doctoral degree, not counting any career breaks."
(We omit to describe the value of y, except to mention that it is non-zero.)
ACTION! Monitoring the impact of the Brexit vote.
There are many anecdotes circulating is social media about UK/EU researchers leaving, UK teams being asked to ...step down from Horizon 2020 applications forming, small innovative businesses relocating, increased headhunting of UK researchers, or EU applicants cancelling plans to come here. As well as long-term concerns about ongoing projects, future regulatory framework, IP, etc.
This is why we've opened a new form to collect YOUR STORIES of what is actually happening. Your entries can be completely confidential, or you may be willing to talk to the media so that there is wider understanding. Either way, do let us know what is going on and please do circulate this to all colleagues. We're scientists- we need to map the territory and develop a solid systematic overview of changes. So let's do it.
Another Reason to Vote Remain
Many people have written eloquently about why Remain must win. I wholeheartedly agree. But there is something else I've come to feel strongly about: that Leave must lose.
My reasons are not really to do with the EU, the economy, or immigration, but are a reaction to the Leave campaign's conduct. Now, let me admit, the official Remain campaign has been far from spotless: it has spun this, cherry-picked that, and exaggerated the other. It has emplo...
Continue ReadingIf you're a UK scientist (yes, mathematicians count!) and want the UK to remain in the EU, then please read, sign, and reshare this letter.
Sign now!!! http://scientistsforeu.uk/sign-save-science/
At SfEU we've just drafted a "mass letter" from scientists to the public about the importance of the E...U to UK science - and the importance of science to our economy and quality of life.
Are you a scientist? Then make sure you add your name and circulate the link to as many other scientists as possible ASAP!
The 100th Issue of the EMS Newsletter is out now!
Featuring: Elisabetta Strickland on Sophie Germain on a French Stamp, Hendrik Lenstra on Profinite Number Theory, Pavel Exner on the forthcoming European Congress, and much more!
http://www.ems-ph.org/journa…/newsletter/pdf/2016-06-100.pdf
Gordon Brown's intervention in the Scottish referendum two years ago felt like a big moment. Here, he makes an equally powerful appeal to the heart regarding the UK's forthcoming EU referendum.
"All of us in Europe respect the right of the British people to decide whether they wish to remain with us in the European Union. It is your decision, and we will all accept it. Nevertheless, if it will help the undecided to make up their minds, we would like to express how very much we value having the United Kingdom in the European Union. It is not just treaties that join us to your country, but bonds of admiration and affection. All of us hope that you will vote to renew them. Britain, please stay."
A love letter to Britain, from a long list of eminent Europeans from the worlds of science, sport, and the arts, including Clémence Poésy, Cédric Villani, Alfred Brendel, Wendelin Werner, Paolo Giordano, Apostolos Doxiadis, and Gérard Houllier.
