The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS) was founded in 1883 and has since become firmly established as the principal society for the Mathematical Sciences community in Scotland.
Using mathematics to understand pandemic strategies Abstract:The years of the COVID-19 pandemic brought a world of difficult decisions for individuals and for governments, and of course many arguments about what was the right thing to do. Many disagreements were based on balancing different forms of harm, either from complex human judgements here, and mathematics can give us a useful framework […]
The 20th IMU General Assembly has selected the UK-Ireland bid for Glasgow as the host of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2030. This is a wonderful achievement for the British and Irish mathematical communities, and the EMS is proud to represent the Scottish component of the bid. We now look forward to welcoming mathematicians from all over the world to Glasgow in 2030!
The EMS welcomes the timely and important Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, a community effort to address the role of AI in mathematical research and to agree on recommendations for regulating its use. The full declaration can be read at: https://leidendeclaration.ai/
Congratulations to Professor Mark Chaplain FRSE FRS, President of the London Mathematical Society and member of the EMS Policy Advisory Group, on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a rare and distinguished honour, and a notable recognition of his contributions to mathematical oncology and the wider mathematical sciences community. See the announcement at: https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/05/new-fellows-announcement-2026.
The EMS wishes the Dublin-Glasgow ICM2030 bid team the very best of luck as they prepare for their presentation to the General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union in New York this July! Find out more about the bid here https://icm2030.kenes.com/ or watch the video below.
The Forwards and Backwards of Population Models What can we infer about the history of a population from the patterns of genetic variation that we observe today? There is a long history of mathematical modelling of the demographic dynamics of a population and their effect on the genetic relationships between individuals sampled from that population, but the assumptions imposed to […]
Encoding Fourier multipliers in matrix algebras Fourier multipliers are among the most important operators in analysis. They act on a given function $f$ by pointwise multiplication of its Fourier transform with a fixed function $f (m f pt )^$. This action can be vastly extended using more general notions of Fourier transform via group representation theory. In this talk, we […]
Bi-Lipschitz embeddings and optimal partial transport A bi-Lipschitz embedding of a metric space X into another, Y, preserves relative distances between points, up to a multiplicative error. Usually, one seeks a bi-Lipschitz embedding when X is a metric space of interest, and Y has good geometric properties, since the embedding allows X to inherit these properties. A classical example is […]