Meetings of the Society

Ordinary Meetings

Each academic year, the Society normally holds eight ordinary meetings from October to June, which form a Session. Each Session terminates with the Society’s AGM the following October, which immediately precedes the first ordinary meeting of the next Session. The AGM is usually held in Edinburgh, and the other meetings are distributed between several Scottish locations. One meeting is the Popular Lecture, which, in recent years, has taken place during Maths Week Scotland.

Meetings are normally held on a Friday afternoon, and are open to all. Each meeting includes at least one lecture in support of the Society’s aims. In each year’s programme, speakers are chosen to cover a wide range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. A mostly complete list of lectures given at past meetings is available on the St Andrews MacTutor archive. From time to time there are joint meetings with other societies, notably the London Mathematical Society. The Society now has a fund to reimburse postgraduate students for travel within Scotland to attend EMS meetings.

Recordings of some recent lectures are available online.