Membership information
Applying for membership
Membership of the Society is open to all who are interested, subject to approval by the EMS General Committee.
If you would like to become a member of the EMS, please send an email to the EMS meetings and membership secretary expressing your interest. Put your name at the start of the subject line. Your name will then be presented to the General Committee for consideration. New members are usually announced at the next meeting of the Society.
Current subscription charges
Please note that subscription fee should not be paid before approval of membership.
Subscription Notice for 2024-25
The rates for the various categories of membership are as follows (PAYMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLEASE, AND CERTAINLY BY 31 DECEMBER 2024):
Ordinary Membership | £24 |
Reciprocal Membership | £12 |
Senior Membership is open to members of at least 25 years standing who are either aged over 65 years or permanently retired from full time employment. They pay no membership subscription.
Existing Life Members pay no further subscription and may receive Proceedings as part of the benefit of Life Membership without additional charge. Life Membership is no longer offered.
Members wishing to take out or renew a membership of the European Mathematical Society please see below.
Methods of payment of membership subscriptions to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
1. Paying by Direct Debit
If you have previously set up a direct debit for us via the Charities Aid Foundation (November 2023 onwards), payment will be taken automatically; the direct debit will appear on your bank statement as ‘charity donation’.
Otherwise, please set up a direct debit via the Charities Aid Foundation by selecting the regular payment option. You will have the choice of selecting either the 1st or the 15th of the month for your first payment, and subsequent payments will be taken on the anniversary of that date.
Please do not select Gift Aid as an option; we will not normally claim it. (Since the EMS is registered with HMRC as a professional body, many members can claim tax relief on subscriptions as an allowable expense, and we are not permitted to claim Gift Aid where that possibility exists. You can read instructions on claiming tax relief from the GOV.UK website.)
2. Card payment, PayPal or CAF account
Please visit our Charities Aid Foundation page and choose the just one donation option.
3. Cheque
Post to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, ICMS, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow EH8 9BT. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Edinburgh Mathematical Society’.
Please note that dollar cheques are no longer accepted.
4. Bank transfer
Our bank details are available on request. Please contact ems.admin@ed.ac.uk.
Agreements with other Societies
The Society has reciprocal agreements with the following Societies overseas, by which membership of one Society gives the right to join others at a reduced subscription:
- American Mathematical Society
- Australian Mathematical Society
- Indian Mathematical Society
- Japanese Association of Mathematical Sciences
- Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg
- New Zealand Mathematical Society
- Nigerian Mathematical Society
- Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Members of all these societies who are not based in the UK can join the EMS for half the standard rate.
EMS members can join these societies for a reduced rate, and are also entitled to join the European Mathematical Society at the reduced “national member society” rate. To join the European Mathematical Society or renew membership, go to the home page and click on the Membership link, then the link to “individual membership”, and choose the option for corporate EMS member society.