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.
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.
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 […]
The Torelli group: a quick tour In this talk we will give a gentle introduction to the Torelli group of a surface. The talk will survey some of its algebraic properties as well as its connection with low-dimensional topology. Along the way we will highlight some seminal work of Joan Birman and Dennis Johnson, among others. Note: due to technical issues, […]
Maths’ Greatest Unsolved Puzzles While mathematicians are undoubtedly brilliant, and their work is used in all kinds of amazing scientific and technological discoveries, there are still questions they can’t answer. Every mathematical question is a puzzle to be solved, and while there’ll be plenty of puzzles for you to chew on, we’ll also discuss some of the questions that still […]