Jason D. Lotay

View of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

It has been a wonderful week at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where I was honoured to be the opening speaker for the conference on Symmetry and Shape celebrating the 65th birthday of Carlos Olmos.

🏆 Nominations for the LMS Prizes in 2026 are open!

Our prizes are intended to recognise and celebrate achievements in and contributions to mathematics, and we strongly encourage nominations for underrepresented groups.

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

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🏆 Nominations for the LMS Prizes in 2025 are open!

Our prizes are intended to recognise and celebrate achievements in and contributions to mathematics, and we strongly encourage nominations for underrepresented groups.

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/news/prizes2...

The freedom to go for it for three years?

Our Hooke and Titchmarsh Fellowships in pure and applied mathematics give you the space to follow a research path of your choice, a path that has proved instrumental in the careers of many previous fellows.

Details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Join us for the 2025 Mary Cartwright Lecture with Weini Huang (QMUL), taking place online on 7 November from 13:00 (GMT).

The lecture aims to celebrate the achievements of distinguished women mathematicians.

➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/mary-...

Iguanadon skeletons

Name tag of Jason Lotay as Phyllis Beddington Wiener Chair

Honoured to be invited to 60th anniversary of Fondation Wiener Anspach, with iguanadons! also had great talks on them, plus announcements of my Phyllis Beddington Wiener Chair at ULB Brussels and Marco Usula's upcoming postdoctoral fellowship with me @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social - great evening!

⚠️ Applications for the next round of Research Grants close TOMORROW!

The grants cover events, travel, research and more and are open to both LMS members and non-members who are based in the UK

For more details and to apply ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/news-grants/...

Funding of up to £4,500 available for institutions to host an LMS Regional Society Meeting and Workshop w/ lectures, workshops, and graduate sessions

APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW

Strengthen regional collaboration and showcase your institution

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Our call for nominations for the Hardy Lectureship 2025 is open!

Nominate a distinguished mathematician based outside of the UK to give a series of lectures within the UK.

Previous Hardy Lecturers incl. Emily Riehl, Eva Miranda, Nalini Joshi.

➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Funding of up to £4,500 available for institutions to host an LMS Regional Society Meeting and Workshop, featuring lectures, workshops, and optional graduate sessions.

Strengthen regional collaboration—propose your event and showcase your institution!

➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/news/regiona...

Applications for the next round of Research Grants are still open!

The grants cover events, travel, research and more and are open to both LMS members and non-members who are based in the UK

Deadline: 15 September

For more details and to apply ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/news-grants/...

✨ The 2025 Joint LMS/IMA conference takes place on 25 Sep at @manchester.ac.uk and online.

''Securing the Twenty-First Century Internet' brings together experts from mathematics and cybersecurity to highlight current research developments in this important area.

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Our extended call for nominations for the LMS Invited Lecture series in 2026 closed on 15 September

Suggest a topic, lecturer and suitable date, time and venue for your series and get funding of up to £6,000 to help make it happen

For details ➡️ t.co/M1VygOnNXy

Our call for nominations for the LMS Invited Lecture series in 2026 has now been extended until 15 September

Suggest a topic, lecturer and suitable date, time and venue for your series and get funding of up to £6,000 to help make it happen

For details ➡️ t.co/M1VygOnNXy

Our much missed colleague Vicky Neale wanted to tell the world about maths. So who better for the second Vicky Neale Public Lecture than Simon Singh who has spent a career doing just that.

Wednesday 6 August, 5pm, Oxford. Online three weeks later. More info: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72339

We wouldn't let it Lie.

When making student lectures publicly available we like to predict (technical term for guess) which will do well. We'd be Lieing if we said we had Jason Lotay's Lie Groups lectures among the most popular. But they are.

Lie Group G2: youtu.be/zROOqqJ8D5k

🗞️ The dust may be settling but we are still on a high from the epic 2025 Hardy Lectureship tour undertaken by Emily Riehl, which took in 9 talks over 18 days (plus a few extra).

You can read a report by Dr John Harvey of the Cardiff event here ➡️ www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

✨ The 2025 Joint LMS/IMA conference takes place on 25 Sep at @manchester.ac.uk and online.

''Securing the Twenty-First Century Internet' brings together experts from mathematics and cybersecurity to highlight current research developments in this important area.

➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-i...

View of valley with clouds from MFO Oberwolfach

It was great to be back at MFO in Oberwolfach for Differentialgeometrie im Grossen. Such a fabulous place to do mathematics.

🚨 Down to just 5️⃣ places left for this year's LMS General Meeting and Hardy Lecture, taking place at De Morgan House (and online) on 4 July and featuring speakers Emily Riehl and Clark Barwick @edinunimaths.bsky.social.

For further details and to register ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-g...

🚨 Down to just 🔟 places left for this year's LMS General Meeting and Hardy Lecture, taking place at De Morgan House (and online) on 4 July and featuring speakers Emily Riehl and Clark Barwick @edinunimaths.bsky.social.

For further details and to register ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-g...

Just under a week until the onllne 2025 Maths Communication Workshop taking place on 24 June and open to all.

In this interactive session, @steckl.es + @sparksmaths.bsky.social cover the skills and techniques required to communicate maths effectively

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We are advertising two teaching positions in Pure Mathematics at Balliol College, University of Oxford for next academic year. Closing very soon: Friday 20 June 2025. Further details here: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

Nearly $G_2$-manifolds and $G_2$-Laplacian co-flows Nearly $G_2$-structures define positive Einstein metrics in $7$ dimensions and are critical points, up to scale, for a geometric flow of co-closed $G_2$-structures with good analytic properties called...

Two days, two seminars, >5000 miles apart. Pleased to be invited to speak at the University of Warwick and (virtually) at Chongqing University of Technology about my recent work with Jakob Stein on Einstein metrics, G2 geometry and geometric flows arxiv.org/abs/2505.14121

🚨 Just couple of days until the first 2025 Maths Communication Workshop taking place in Edinburgh on 11 June.

In this interactive session, @steckl.es + @sparksmaths.bsky.social cover the skills and techniques required to communicate maths effectively

➡️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/london-mathe...

Register for this year's LMS General Meeting and Hardy Lecture, taking place at De Morgan House (and online) on 4 July and featuring speakers Emily Riehl and Clark Barwick @edinunimaths.bsky.social.

For further details and to register ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lms-g...

🚨 Just under a week until the first 2025 Maths Communication Workshop taking place in Edinburgh on 11 June.

In this interactive session, @steckl.es + @sparksmaths.bsky.social cover the skills and techniques required to communicate maths effectively

➡️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/london-mathe...

Our call for nominations for the LMS Invited Lecture series in 2026 close TODAY.

Suggest a topic, lecturer and suitable date, time and venue for your series and get funding of up to £6,000 to help make it happen!

For further information ➡️ t.co/M1VygOnNXy

✨ 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗠𝗦! ✨

If you are considering joining the LMS and enjoying the many benefits, don't forget to fill in the application so it can be presented at our next Society Meeting on 4 July.

Next deadline: 30 Jun

Full details ➡️ t.co/4c0dj7GfW9

✨ The 2025 LMS Hardy Lectureship tour with Emily Riehl starts 1️⃣ month today!

Emily will be visiting Aberdeen, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Cambridge, Birmingham, London and Bristol and all events are free!

For further details ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectu...