My IMA

This section contains news and information about the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and its members.

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in mathematics, for more information please go to Why Join?

• IMA Gold Medal 2012

  Institute Gold Medals are awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years.

• IMA Strategy 2012/2016

  Following Council's quinquennial strategy weekend in Birmingham in March 2011 and subsequent discussions of Council and Executive Board, the IMA strategy for the next five years has been formulated.

• New Year Honours

  The IMA would like to extend its congratulations to Professor Ursula Hilda Mary Martin FIMA who was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list.

• Executive Director's Report

  Mathematics Today February 2012

• The 2012 Christopher Zeeman Lecture

  by Professor John Barrow FRS
  Wednesday 21 March 2012 at 6.00 pm followed by a reception for IMA and LMS members and invited guests at The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1

• EPSRC Fellowships

  The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) has written to EPSRC and the Prime Minister to express its major concerns over the future of the mathematical sciences in the UK as a result of changes to funding being made by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

• IMA Gold Medal Lecture

  The IMA Summer Lecture took place at the Royal Society on 29 June 2011. The audience comprised Institute members and invited guests from government, industry, education and other professional and learned associations.

• The Big Bang Fair 2011

  The Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair began in 2009 to promote STEM education. In previous years maths has been under-represented. So this year, in order to improve this situation and with assistance from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the maths community was offered 90 m2 of activity space along with two workshop and two theatre slots.

• AGM Minutes

  A draft version of the minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications held at the Royal Society, London, on 29 June 2011 is now available for information.

• Mathematics Promotion Unit

  The Mathematics Promotion Unit (MPU) seeks out opportunities for bringing mathematics, and the role of mathematics, to the attention of policymakers and advisers, the wider public and the media. It also provides a resource for UK policymakers, the media and the wider public to call upon.

• Presidential Address 2008

  Effective Mathematics, Effective Mathematicians I. David Abrahams, Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester (IMA President 2008-2009)

• The Council for the Mathematical Sciences

  The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) was established in 2001 by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS).

• Results of the 2006 Membership Survey

  Council, as part of its continuing review of its strategy for the future development of the IMA, circulated a Membership Survey to all members in May 2006.