Dear All

 

LMS Invited Lecture Series 2018 - Call for Proposals

 

Proposals for the Invited Lecture Series 2018 are now being sought.  Proposers are invited to suggest a topic and Lecturer for the lecture series, which they should be prepared to organise at their own institution or a suitable conference centre within the UK.

 

The annual Invited Lecturers scheme aims to bring a distinguished overseas mathematician to the United Kingdom to present a small course of about ten lectures held over five days (Monday-Friday). Each course of Invited Lectures is on a major field of current mathematical research, and is instructional in nature, being directed both at graduate students beginning research and at established mathematicians who wish to learn about a field outside their own research specialism.

 

The format of an annual Invited Lectures series should:

 

  *   include meetings at which a single speaker gives a course of about ten expository lectures, examining some subject in depth;

  *   be held over a five day period (Monday to Friday) during a University vacation;

  *   be residential and open to all interested.

 

A grant of up to £4,000 is available to the host department to support attendance at the lectures.  In addition to full expenses, the lecturer is offered an honorarium of £1,250 for giving the course.  It is intended that the texts of the lectures given in the series shall be published and an honorarium of £1,500 is also available upon receipt of lecture notes in a publishable form.

 

Enquiries about the Invited Lectures should be directed to the Programme Secretary at the Society ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for the submission of proposals is 15 February 2017.

 

For more information about the scheme and how to submit a proposal, please visit: http://www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectures/invited-lecturer-proposals

The Invited Lecturer for 2017 is Professor Jim Agler (UC San Diego), who will visit Newcastle from 18-22 April 2017 to give a series of lectures on Function Theory by Hilbert Space Methods. http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~nek29/lmslectures2017/function_theory.html

 

Recent previous lecturers have been:

 

2016       E. Knobloch (UC Berkeley) Dynamics, Patterns and Spatially Localised Structures

2015       M. Shapiro (Michigan State University), Cluster algebras and integrable systems.

2014       J. Väänänen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam)

Games, trees and models, Foundations of mathematics and second order logic and The mathematical theory of dependence and independence.

2013       F. Bogomolov    (NYU) Birational Geometry and Galois Groups

2012       A. Borodin (MIT) Determinantal point processes and representation theory

 

Best wishes

Elizabeth

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