IMA Annual Report
2017 was another good year for the IMA.
We ran the Department for Education Mathematics Initial Teacher Training Scholarships scheme for a fifth successful year recommending 278 outstanding applicants for scholarship funds, and were awarded a grant to repeat the process for a sixth year.
Our eStudent undergraduate programme continues to mature. We now have more eStudents than we have traditional members. At December 2017 there were 8,400 eStudents.
An exciting new initiative in 2017 was the establishment of IMA Academic Representatives in universities which will complement the work of our University Liaison Team. The initiative has begun strongly with Representatives in 56 universities who will strengthen links between their colleagues and students and the IMA, enhancing the promotion and support of mathematics within that sector of the community.
Our conference team ran 10 events welcoming 700 delegates.
Our sixth Employers’ Forum was hosted by EDF at its Barnwood site on the topic of Diversity, Inclusivity and Employability.
The Mathematics Matters research case studies are now in their fifth phase which focuses on the ubiquity of mathematics. It will highlight mathematics research in a wide and surprising variety of applications including the creation of original music, the restoration of paintings and understanding social networks. Papers from the existing phases may be found on the IMA website under Publications.
We played a leading role with the CMS in the inclusion of mathematics within STEM for Britain at Parliament (renamed to highlight the inclusion of mathematics).
The IMA ran the biggest maths stand in the biggest Big Bang ever. 65,000+ students and parents in four days!
With our great thanks to the University of Greenwich we held the 2017 IMA Festival of Mathematics on 27 and 28 June. ‘Greenwich Maths Time’ included talks, workshops, hands-on displays and exhibitions, aimed at a broad audience of schools and families, teachers, and practising mathematicians in industry and academia. The Festival was supported by the IMA, the University of Greenwich, the OR Society, and FDM.
The IMA MathsCareers website attracted over 500,000 visits during the year (a huge increase) and it has over 5,930 followers on Twitter. We also issued six more editions of our e16plus newsletter.
Council held a Strategy Review Weekend in July which was reported in the February 2018 issue of Mathematics Today.
And on top of this we ran our regular activities covering branches, education, grants, journals, mathematics consultations, and Mathematics Today.
Council would like to thank John Meeson, Assistant Director, for his enormous contributions over the last eight and a half years, in this, his last full year with the IMA.
We hope that you enjoy reading the comprehensive details in the rest of this Annual Report to Members 2017 (pdf).
Fifty-fourth Annual General Meeting
The fifty-fourth Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications will be held on Wednesday 27 June 2018 at 4.45 p.m. at the Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG. Further details are available in the AGM Notice 2018 pdf which has been distributed with the June issue of Mathematics Today.
Voting Papers 2018
Voting papers have been distributed with the June issue of Mathematics Today. If any corporate member requires a further printed copy of the Special Motion on Subscriptions Proxy Voting Form 2018 (pdf), the Councillor Election Candidate Statement paper or the Councillor Election Ballot paper, please contact Alison Penry (telephone: 01702 356107).
