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• Deloitte Report - Measuring the Economic Benefits of Mathematical Science Research in the UK

  The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today published the report it commissioned from Deloitte on the economic benefits of mathematical science research in the UK. The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) and the learned societies worked in partnership with the EPSRC and provided evidence, but the report is an independent study by the consulting firm Deloitte. The report reflects the excellence of the UK mathematics research base, and the impressive and far-reaching impact of the mathematical sciences.

• Executive Director's Report

  Mathematics Today December 2012

• Book Announcement

  Modeling and Optimization in Space Engineering by Giorgio Fasano CMath FIMA CSci and János D. Pintér (Eds.)
  Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 73

• Flying Roast Ducks: Recollections of Sir Hermann Bondi 1983 - 2005

  This is a memoir about Sir Hermann Bondi (1919-2005) in his final role as Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. Bondi was a mathematician and cosmologist, a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy, one-time Director-General of the European Space Organisation and Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council. He was also President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications from 1974 to 1975.

• SIAM’s John von Neumann Lecture awarded to John Ball

  Sir John Ball FRS FIMA received SIAM’s flagship lecture in recognition of his deep contributions to our understanding of the mechanics of materials.

• Presidential Address 2012

  On 27 June 2012 at the Royal Society Professor Robert MacKay FRS, CPhys FInstP, CMath FIMA, President of the IMA, delivered his Presidential Address – Complex Systems in Science and Society – to an audience of members and guests.

• Executive Director's Report

  Mathematics Today October 2012

• 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.

• 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.

• AGM Minutes

  A draft version of the minutes of the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications held at the Royal Society, London, on 27 June 2012 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.